Two memories hold two different https://t.co/9su62z9XzX the space between them — the part no one taught us to name —
misunderstanding grows, resentment takes root, and solidarity collapses before it begins.Colonial borders redrew not only land but the terms of memory itself.
People often recognize a feeling long before they have language for it.
Sometimes a sentence or diagram simply makes an existing tension speakable.
Not closure.
Just language for what communities have carried quietly for years.
Kenyan Indians who've been following the conversation after @shikshaarora_ 's comments on the podcast
This is the time to listen. To be honest. To reflect deeply.
Proximity does not equal relationship
As excellently articulated in @blindianproject
https://t.co/Ptk5nI8UEq
Community screenings of Mathonga Elizwe (Spirits Of The Land) documentary about land restitution in South Africa. Providing a platform for people to talk about this pertinent matter in a land that still suffers from the legacy of colonial and apartheid brutal thefts. Spread it.
Last week we partnered with Dream Big Youth Foundation
and launched a campaign to build long-term infrastructure for this work.
Because this can’t rely on moments—it has to be sustained.
Learn more: https://t.co/WMbI7epGC7
Support: https://t.co/9oSbIXffV7
Faith in a Box is live with Goya
How does caste travel through packaging, branding, and the global spice aisle?
What is moralised on the plate often becomes normalised in policy.
https://t.co/VAJ5r4kKEv
@Taravaggio Culture formed under rupture is still culture. When displacement is misread as absence, pride gets reframed as delusion. Diaspora wars often begin with a false premise: that Black Americans lack cultural legitimacy. That premise didn’t emerge organically.
It was produced.
Which hand?
We talk about eating with our hands.
We rarely ask which hand.
Power enters the body before we have language for it. 👇🏽
https://t.co/qMECoyaxrW
What Southasian spaces lose when anti-Blackness goes unspoken and what past movements can teach us about widening the circle again.
https://t.co/rBHofhRdj8
We’re pleased to welcome Kavitha Rajagopalan as a Board Member of the BlindianProject.
As the board comes into formation, we’re focused on building cultural infrastructure with care, accountability, and long-term stewardship.
Before consent, there was the kitchen.
Reconstruction Studies 001 is now public — a foundational text on how power is learned before it’s named.
https://t.co/jmd3QO9RIJ
Afro-Asian entanglement isn’t a metaphor.
It’s a set of conditions people had to live through.
Too often, the field studies connection from a distance — because proximity would implicate us.
What survives when institutions don’t?
An essay on invisible labor, cultural memory, and how work endures long after recognition disappears.
https://t.co/K9HZmaisUL
WHAT IF SOLIDARITY ISN’T BROKEN —
JUST BUILT ON A PARTIAL STORY?
Remember fully.
Repair what we inherited.
Reconstruct what comes next.
This is Reconstruction Studies.
This is BlindianProject.
Partition didn’t begin in Delhi, LDN, or Karachi. Its architecture began in Berlin.
Before our diaspora tensions, there were borders we never drew. Sharing a framework I’ve been building — Reconstruction Studies — to understand Black × South Asian memory, silence, and solidarity
Two memories hold two different https://t.co/9su62z9XzX the space between them — the part no one taught us to name —
misunderstanding grows, resentment takes root, and solidarity collapses before it begins.Colonial borders redrew not only land but the terms of memory itself.