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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every single piece by young artists in the UK's Royal Academy of Arts online Summer showcase, is a masterpiece. <3 You will need a hankie at hand to dab your tears of joy and hope. :) youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/...

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Exhibitions : Young Artists' Summer Show | Royal Academy

The Young Artists' Summer Show is an open submission exhibition, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy, that recognises talented young artists at primary and secondary school level...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎉Cover reveal!!🎉 For the Indian edition of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk Pre-order link: www.blaft.com/collections/...

The front cover of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by Kuzhali Manickavel. The front cover shows a girl in a school uniform, her arm outstretched, holding a small ghostly figure wrapped in a handkerchief on her palm. The girl's face is exploding into a tangle of lotus stems, flowers, and frogs.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TIL that two Tamil movies released in 2002 (Samurai, and Yai! Nee Rhomba Azhaga Irukey) filmed song sequences in the magnificent Palmyra complex, and form time capsules. :)

Screenshot from the song Thottu Thottu. Film: Yai Nee Romba Azhaga Irueky!

Screenshot from the song Thottu Thottu. Film: Yai! Nee Romba Azhaga Irukey!

Screenshot from Samurai's Aagaya Suriyanai song.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's legacy is one of the finest examples of the reality that the world we most thrive in, is one built by women. Her music and work will remain a harbour to weather all storms, for ever and then some more.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This has to be one of the most awaited memoirs for Indians in the recent past. Dare I say, much more than Roy’s even. Hoping it lives up to the colossal expectations. Sonia Gandhi will be remembered in history as the most influential person in their family after Nehru and Indira themselves.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the foremost Marxist Historians of India, and a founder and critic of the subaltern studies group, Sumit Sarkar passed away at the age of 87, on August 13th. "Sarkar’s last rites will be performed on Saturday (August 15) at 4.30 pm in Green Park, Delhi." thewire.in/history/note...

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Noted Marxist Historian Sumit Sarkar Passes Away

One of the leading scholars of Modern Indian History, Sarkar, taught at University of Delhi and was a Fellow of Wolfson College, London.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was rewatching this meditative video for Raheem's 'Bewajah' set in Gilgit, and it washed over me that in just five years, cinematographic language from Pakistan has gone from early experimentation, to a coming of age with aplomb. #MusicSky #FilmSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nj7...

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Hasan Raheem - Bewajah ft. Umair (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Hasan Raheem

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

FYI, For those in the Netherlands, there's a terrific Amrita Sher-Gil exhibit in the Drents Museum (Assen), that is on till the 20th of September this year. This is absolutely worth a long journey for, from all corners of the country. :) drentsmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...

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Amrita Sher-Gil 'Europe belongs to Picasso, India belongs to me'

The long-awaited exhibition Amrita Sher-Gil – “Europe belongs to Picasso, India belongs to me” has opened. Seize this unique opportunity to view the…

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's as if the 2019 CAA-NRC protests that were interrupted by the pandemic, have recommenced today in India. In 2019, the government was still merely 5 years old, and people were trying to work despite it. 11 years on, with the devastation it has wreaked since, no one's hiding their disgust at them.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Learned via the handle qudratikath on the birdsite, that a poem titled 'The Urgent Call of Palestine' by a young Indian woman named Lalita Punjabi was set to music by Zeinab Shaath in 1970s and filmed by Ismael Shammout. The interview is deeply fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9QW...

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The Urgent Call of Palestine ~ An interview with Zeinab Shaath, 2017

YouTube video by نهاية

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"We are meeting at a moment of grave peril for our country. I wish I could say we're at a crossroads. It seems lately, we are on the highway to an uncertain future." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rk7...

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Every Indian’s Citizenship is Suspect: Watch Conclave on Federalism, ONOE & Citizenship

YouTube video by The Wire

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Summer Jackel @summerjackel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gorgeous, lush, foggy, ferny Ferndale

A lush northern CA temperate rainforest; the whole frame is filled with green plants

Verdant greenery makes a natural tunnel over a trail

A large, burly old redwood grows in front of a small pond

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't enjoy the euro-western doomerism of some climate models which predict continued warming for decades even if we stop all emissions now. They still largely overlook landback and management to indigenous people, who have far more at stake in protecting the planet.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I sometimes wonder about the level of cognitive dissonance it takes for Parakala Prabhakar and Nirmala Sitharaman to remain in a marriage. I do.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Don’t think the general public in Europe understands yet that they have to join the world’s formerly colonised peoples in pushing back against capitalism, fossil fuels, and altering their excessive consumption. Or they’ll find themselves environmental refugees in less than a decade.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

European nations need to mandate that all landlords need to fit their rental properties with external sun blinds and shutters. It’s the least they must do to prevent heat stress or even deaths in heat trap apartments.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I am a wreck in this heatwave but it’s quite something to see European calculations of emissions from backing annihilation of west Asia backfire, and how. “Oh it’ll just be a warm summer. Please send money and ammo xx.” Well, here we are in a giant rotisserie. 😍

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A breezy track from Bhubneshwar based band 'Khatth' (shot in Mumbai though). :) #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nl...

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Woh - Khatth ft. Sthiti (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Khatth

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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 29/05/2026

THE LUNCHBOX at the berkeley rep was a delight! a new musical based on the movie of the same name (which i’ve never seen!). lots of great melodies, dancing and a beautiful set of a street in Mumbai www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-lu...

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The Lunchbox

See the world premiere of The Lunchbox at Berkeley Rep, May 17–Jun 28, 2026. A new musical adapted from the acclaimed film. Official box office.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Folks in the Netherlands, if you are keen to catch it, Main Vaapas Aaunga is running for a few more days in Rotterdam and The Hague.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Absolute delight to revisit old Tom Alter interviews. An incredible command over Urdu unrivalled by many of his contemporaries. Watching him grow livid at reporters asking him in 2017 how he could speak Hindi well, and for making a borderline islamophobic comment, remains a top moment. RIP Tom ji.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Several widely-read people that I know, happen to draw the worst conclusions that enable conservatives. Because the key is not how much you read, but *how* you read. And this is where good teachers are important. They help one learn to critically examine text, reflect, and argue in good faith.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Oh to be one of the world’s most beautiful people and to have the privilege of being in the same scene as the Taj a bazillion times. 😍

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’d like to think I’ve engaged with a fair share of Partition research, lectures, media for a South Indian whose sociopolitical frames of reference are different. Yet, something about O Yaara‘s visuals and vocals broke the dam. I felt the pain viscerally. #BlueSky youtu.be/953e76Bv0EY?...

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O Yaara | Coke Studio Pakistan | Season 15 | Abdul Hannan x Kaavish | The Colony

YouTube video by The Colony

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday May your coffee be hot, your troubles be small, and may you approach today’s challenges with the confidence of a cat heading towards an unattended chicken roast dinner

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Boy oh boy, only Rahman can fuse Swing, Jazz, Punjabi folk, and popular Hindi music together without a thing going amiss. 😍 #MusicSky youtu.be/w-uBtXpgEGI?...

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Ishq Mastana | Main Vaapas Aaunga |@ARRahman| Imtiaz Ali, Irshad Kamil, Mohit Chauhan, Nargis, Pooja

YouTube video by Tips Official

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So AR Rahman performed at the Wagah-Attari Border on the 6th of Jun for Imtiaz Ali's Main Waapis Aaunga promotions. I don't know how they pulled off permissions but for a few hours, Punjab on either side felt whole again according to people who were there. I hope many more such concerts take place.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Remembered this little sapphire of a song by the second winners of Coke V Popstars India, in the wake of VIVA re-releasing their album on streaming services after two decades! #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz5...

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Tumse Hi Pyar Aasma 2003

YouTube video by Indipop Songs

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Went down a Gharana rabbit hole, and began wondering that if colonialism had never occurred, and if the partition of the subcontinent hadn't happened, so many towns and villages of the region that lie crumbling in apathy today would have had rich lives intact.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

An angel out there needs to upload a lossless audio of Nazakat Ali and Salamat Ali Khan singing Tu Na Disda. I fell in love with it when a Pakistani Classical music enthusiast uploaded a clip he found on his stories. Sharing this in lieu, but dreaming of that. #MusicSky youtu.be/BAFqxEXYR4I?...

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Salamat Ali Khan & Nazakat Ali Khan - Raag Pahadi (1960)

YouTube video by Archisman Mozumder

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Initiated myself into the Boterham culture with a slice of bread topped with fig chutney and goat cheese. But my spouse was all, "That is no boterham. You need two slices of bread, one slice of cheese. A slice of ham *if* you feel extra festive." He will be proven wrong yet. *grits teeth*

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sanjith Hegde's Kareyole is up there with Gulaabo for me. His team always gets picturisation right. Love that this song has a body positive approach with its choice of female lead considering how size zero obsessed Indian cinema has become across the board. #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzJ...

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Sanjith Hegde - Kareyole | Official Music Video

YouTube video by Warner Music India

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Chuffed, I saw a Peregrine flying overhead! A bird that I’m completely enchanted by but never have managed to see properly except in flight on one other occasion. Hoping the third time’s a charm and I get a clear sighting of one perched! Can only hope for fledglings along. 🤩

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16/05/2026

Time line cleanser: A year ago I bought the dogs a massive bed:

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

the way we use language in india is crazy people switch between like five different languages in a single conversation

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’m feeling a bit bleh. Needs’t add some cheer into the world and back into my life too. Would someone like a nice postcard (with a poem on the back) mailed to them? :) I have a budget for up to 5-6 recipients. Delivery subject to the whims of postal gods! :)

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I have visited Glasgow. I have loved it. I loved the people, I loved how kind everyone is, I loved how much radical history they have and how they centre it. No one around me is allowed to criticise Glasgow (except Glaswegians). :D Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell

Four artworks depicting enchanted forest scenes, featuring a unicorn, a fairy, a woman in a cloak and several otherworldly trees, bushes and plants.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Introduced to this little sapphire of a composition (by Shri Shirshendu Mukherjee who runs Riyaz Institute in CAN), thanks to a classical music enthusiast who goes by the handle Minah Sabri on the gram. :) #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=9unD...

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Piu Pal Naa Laagi | Raag: Gaud Sarang | Riyaz Institute of Hindustani Music

YouTube video by Riyaz Institute of Hindustani Music

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

So grateful I watched Aki Kaurismaki's The Tavernman, followed by Le Havre! :)

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Malicious Fluff @maliciousfluff.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Kazdoura “Khayal خيال” (From Syria & Lebanon, based in Toronto) - One more artist I would like to highlight. Levant (Western Middle East) Indie Pop.

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Kazdoura - Khayal خيال (Official Video)

YouTube video by Kazdoura

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Will be speaking on Pious Labor at Harvard Islamic Studies later this month! Would love to see Boston-area friends there. islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/semina...

APRIL 16 (THU) | 4-5:30pm ET
A Book Talk on Pious Labor:
Islam, Artisanship and Technology in Colonial India
Amanda Lanzillo
Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
CO-SPONSORS: Department of South Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar
BARKER 133 | RSVP at islamicstudies.harvard.edu/seminar
PIOUS LABOR

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A lot may change if, in the exceedingly rare chance, most American citizens acknowledge that their state by foundation is a fascist one. One that has employed terror liberally to establish itself. And, if they internally begin to decolonise, and move towards handing stewardship to the indigenous.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I want to dream of Beirut and Havana; of Tehran, Baghdad, Khartoum and Kabul. I want to dream of life. I do not want to consider London or NYC or Berlin. I do not want us, the global majority to face away from ourselves, crushing each other to seek the weak light of the death star that is the West.

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Sharada @sharada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This Conan O' Brien Ad set in Rajasthan is marvellous. How did I ever miss this! It's genuinely respectful of ordinary Indians and does not caricaturise, mock, or stereotype. Refreshing. :) youtu.be/chvvWZW6NOw?...

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American Express - Curtain ft. Conan O'Brien

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