Sushmita Pati

Assoc. Prof, NLSIU, Bangalore | Studies cities and political economy | Author of Properties of Rent (CUP, 2022)| Views personal

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Super grateful and honoured to be awarded the BASAS book prize this year, jointly with the excellent @ollyakkerman. Congratulations!

[BASAS @BASASofficial]

The 2024 BASAS Book Prize panel had an excellent field of books to evaluate.

Ultimately the Book Prize panel were unanimous about the decision to award the prize jointly to Olly Akkerman and Sushmita Pati.

Congratulations to the winning authors!

https://t.co/tiBVlNeWoR

[PC Saidalavi @pc_saidalavi]

The Sociology Scholars Forum at the Department of Sociology invites abstracts to its annual graduate conference scheduled on 13th February 2027.

A 200-250 abstract is due by 30th November 2026. We will provide local travel, accommodation and food. Please spread the word.

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

most toxic problem in Indian univs is equating rigor with "strictness". When tapasya-pariksha culture replaces curiosity & exploration-- you get a pressure cooker.

Real issue is how this system treats "failure" & "cheating". Most teachers default think students are lazy, spoilt cuz back when they were students it was so much worse & it made them "stronger"

This obsession w. strength IS the weakness.

Pressures on marginalized caste, low income, first gen students is unbearable. This should be a moment to look at our exam toxicity & academic culture-- instead casteist Savarnas will make it about bogus merit discourse & make strawman arguments against reservation.

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

@MisraKaustubh This is supercool! Thank you :)

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Come by for this amazing book this weekend Bangalore! I will be the discussant on the 22nd :)

[Brahma Prakash @bprakash2020]

Join us in Bengaluru #spectaclestate @HarperCollinsIN

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

What a relevant piece for today's times! Cannot wait to read it

[Ichamati Mousamputri @IchamatiM]

New publication!

In this paper I explore the everyday spatial experiences of authoritarianism in Indian universities and propose conceptual tools to examine authoritarian politics in university contexts.

Open access too!!
https://t.co/2Dc3gnJFHv

[Ilyas SQR @Dr_SQRIlyas]

My wife’s powerful article in today’s Indian Express. “His words are free, my son is not”
Six years of incarceration without trial is not justice—it is discrimination,
You may imprison a person, but you cannot imprison his words, silence his ideas, or put his thoughts behind bars

[NLSIU @NLSIUofficial]

NLSIU, Bengaluru, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University, USA and Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai are jointly organising a PhD Workshop on ‘State, Citizenship and Mobilisations in Contemporary India’ on August 10th-11th, 2026

[Brahma Prakash @bprakash2020]

Dear friends, colleagues, critics and well-wishers, my book Spectacle State will be finally releasing on the 17th of July. It is ready to Pre-order now on Amazon. Please order your copy in advance so you get it on time. Thanks
https://t.co/l1GVbvJdEE

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

@hashiyaarai looking forward! Cannot wait @hashiyaarai

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

@ekta2993 Congratulations Ekta! Lovely news

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

@iissarayu @sharma_sarbani Thank you! Let me write to you separately

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Hello Bangalore Twitter. @sharma_sarbani and I are looking to speak with retired officers from Bangalore PSUs- BEL, BHEL, BEML, ITI, HMT and NGEF. Can you please help with contacts?

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Check out these lovely 2 month long courses being offered by IDSKolkata on public history, Urban, poverty and gender! RT

[Anwesha Sengupta @Anwesha_sg]

1. At @IDSKolkata I will be offering a 2 month long in-person course on #publichistory where we will explore the processes, politics & ethichs of engagement b/w a historian and the 'public' in indian context. Tentatively 16 classes, march and april. (Cont.)

[Soumyarendra Barik @imsoumyarendra]

@IndianExpress I urge you all, if you have the time, to watch this video on @IndianExpress's YouTube channel, where I speak about my experience working on these apps. https://t.co/kJEomcoeIG

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Read the latest Socio Legal Review issue that is now out! From atrocity to a colonial case on widowhood to data narratives on women in judiciary, this issue carries a lot. All open access.

[Socio-Legal Review @SLR_NLSIU]

The Editorial Board (2024-25) of the Socio-Legal Review is delighted to announce the release of Volume 21, Issue 1!

To access the Issue, please visit https://t.co/zypfzkBX45

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Happening today at 5pm!

[NLSIU @NLSIUofficial]

#GuestLecture
The #HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law at #NLSIU is organising a talk on ‘Hidden Precarities: Debt and Embodied Risk in Urban Uttarakhand, India’ by @ProfessorSmitha Radhakrishnan from @Wellesley College.

🗓️Day & Date: January 8, 2026
⏲️Time: 5 PM
📍Venue: Ground Floor Conference Room, Training Centre

👉This event is open to the public. Know more: https://t.co/pSOZzBtLT0

@PostitAcademic @mahima_bala @MoHUA_India

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Our first talk of the year! Come to hear Smitha Radhakrishnan talk about debt and precarity in Uttarakhand. Our talks are open to the public. But do register!

[NLSIU @NLSIUofficial]

#GuestLecture
The #HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law at #NLSIU is organising a talk on ‘Hidden Precarities: Debt and Embodied Risk in Urban Uttarakhand, India’ by @ProfessorSmitha Radhakrishnan from @Wellesley College.

🗓️Day & Date: January 8, 2026
⏲️Time: 5 PM
📍Venue: Ground Floor Conference Room, Training Centre

👉This event is open to the public. Know more: https://t.co/pSOZzBtLT0

@PostitAcademic @mahima_bala @MoHUA_India

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

@devanshmittal_ Hi Devansh. I can send you a copy if you can DM me your email.

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

Wrote something for Public Culture on what Bulldozers have come to mean today. It engages Science and Technology studies with questions of contemporary politics in India and beyond. The proof copy is behind the paywall for a while. Here is the link.

https://t.co/Z0i18wd2qO

[Alishan Jafri @alishan_jafri]

The men and women whom the Delhi police refused to investigate.

1. Ragini Tiwari

[Anwesha Sengupta @Anwesha_sg]

IDSK is offering a nine month course titled Research Programme in Development Studies. Suitable for students who have completed Masters, preparing for phd application

https://t.co/JCKiNBsX97