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Keshav Bansal (he/him)

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‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
reading wisdom, getting wise 😁🤓😋 #TBR
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Reading Independence 🇮🇳 ✊🏽
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947 🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
#Surdas #सूरदास ❤️
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Bullhe Shah // Bhagat Singh // Faiz Ahmed Faiz #ReadingInquilab 📖+✊🏽=🔥
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
#TBR 🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Heart Lamp @BanuMushtaq 🤓😋🤗 #TBR
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#TBR 🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Book haul... 🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📚 An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory 🎓 Prof. Sreenath V.S, IIT Madras 🗓️ Mon, Jul 21 - Fri, Sep 12 2025 🔗 onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs132/...
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An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory - Course
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
✅
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.” ~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930 🙄😒😞😶
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'm Sherlock'ed 🧐 ❤️ #TBR
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#thekashmirsyllabus A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir. Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art. Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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#thekashmirsyllabus
#thekashmirsyllabus Revised February 4, 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION #TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirat...
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#Kashmir
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Márquez 🫶🏽
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It was not witches who burned. It was women. Women who were seen as Too beautiful Too outspoken Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously) Too loud Too quiet Women who danced, Women who sang or anything else, really. It was not witches who burned. It was women. — Fia Forsström #Holika
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#TBR ♀️+📖=🔥
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The particular poem in this post has become an anthem of the feminist movement and is one of the most celebrated pieces of poetry in modern Urdu literature.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Her autobiography, 'Buri Aurat Ki Katha' (The Story of a Bad Woman), is not just the autobiography of a poet but the story of a whole generation of life as South Asian women.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Kishwar Naheed is one of the most prominent feminist poets in Urdu. She has a huge corpus to her credit, starting with her now classic first collection 'Lab e Goya' (Speaking Lips) which was published in 1968.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Indeed.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
4. Marathi: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg30/p... 5. Odia: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg31/p... 6. Punjabi: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg34/p... We encourage you to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn a new language.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Links for Enrolment: 1. Bengali: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg35/p... 2. Kannada: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg33/p... 3. Malayalam: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg32/p...
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, offers Online Basic Courses in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, and Punjabi. Duration: 12 Weeks Credit Point: 4
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
✊🏽+🔥 = 📖 #BhagatSingh #KarlMarx 🤓 ❤️
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
There was a time... I read 80-100 books a year but academia has killed the joy (understandable) and attention span (weird).. So, I'm slowly nursing my mind into reading for the language, the sentence; for the story, the pleasure. #ReadingGoals2025
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Paper presented at the International Seminar on Imperialism, Independence and Social Transformation in the Contemporary World, which took place in New Delhi in March 1972.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“It is one of the legacies of colonialism that the economic relations among developing countries are far less developed than the economic links between developing and developed countries.” — Manmohan Singh, 1972
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
South Asian Literature(s) #TBR 🤓 🤤 😋 🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: The books I read — I like to buy.” 🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Well, it'll be finalized after a poll/feedback but I'm toying with the idea of keeping it at 7/7.30pm IST (GMT+5.30).
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Done 🙃.
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
These are the books that publishers have offered for free this week, November 29-December 5. For a more extensive reading list, please visit, 🔗 librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and... 📖+🍉=❤️ #read #palestine
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Readings and Resources – Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 - December 5). 🔗 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f... 📖+🍉=♥️ #read #palestine
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🤝🏽
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University SEMINAR SERIES 📋 The Archive is Dead, Long Live the Archive; Hindi Archives, and the History of Writing 🗓️ December 4, 3pm IST 📍Room no. 326, CHS JNU, Delhi #SouthAsia #Languages #Histories #Hindi #Writing #Archive
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
thanks for creating, Could I be added? 🙃
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There was a time... I read 80-100 books a year but academia has killed the joy (understandable) and attention span (weird).. So, I'm slowly nursing my mind into reading for the language, the sentence; for the story, the pleasure. #ReadingGoals
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Young Scholars' Forum @Colombo Institute #SouthAsia
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Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Done. 🙃
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#TBR #Colonialism #Postcolonialism #Empire 🤓 😋
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