ghostofganymede

PhD @jnu_official_50 with focus on: Borders, Migration, Identity, Environment, Resistance, Gender, Labour, Ethnography and Annalles

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

In solidarity with @aritry and other journalists, who are being heckled by Delhi Police, who has the audacity to barge into her house and take her laptop, phone and other important apparatuses like hard disks and all. This is an absolutely horrendous experience.
#sickularpolice

[Aritry @aritry]

Delhi Police barged into my home at 6 am. Took my laptop, phone, hard disks etc. Questioned about the reporting I have done. This is in link with UAPA case against @NewsClick. Great time to be a journo. #PressFreedom

[History Defined @historydefined]

A few of the three hundred crocodile mummies were discovered in the vicinity of the Temple of Kom Ombo in the Aswan Governorate. The temple was built during the Ptolemaic dynasty between 180–47 BCE, and the crocodile mummies are now on display at the Crocodile Museum, Egypt

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

#ManipurCrisis | During their ongoing negotiations with the union home ministry, Kuki-Zo militant groups demanded a union territory similar to the administrative setup of Puducherry.

@shivnarayan01 reports.

https://t.co/ie9S2yJczv

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Replug| In the 36 years since the blast, Canadian authorities have only convicted one of the perpetrators, Inderjit Singh Reyat, who built the bomb. A thorough investigation into the crime has largely been sidestepped.

#KanishkaBombing

@jatinder_tur ✍️ https://t.co/BpLtPnIW22

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

The intricate mind of jellyfishes decoded.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Despite lacking a centralized brain, the Caribbean box jellyfish can learn from past experiences to avoid bumping into obstacles. https://t.co/NmFDITGFcE @NewsfromScience

[Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal]

“If the government of South Africa does not recognize the centrality of fighting xenophobia as a way of achieving social cohesion and socioeconomic development, the country risks a future marked by episodic uprisings against foreigners.” https://t.co/wz6NmteuVn

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

#Muzaffarnagar | Compensation was not distributed commensurate to the violence faced but rather through access networks. Finally, as the khaps determined the start of the violence, they also determined who would get compensated for it. https://t.co/kuzNXDnpTU

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

Quantum pioneer Niels Bohr on subjective vs. objective reality and the uses of religion in a secular world https://t.co/YlFQTSeiYL

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

https://t.co/WfKKyAzcD8

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Nikola Tesla's remarks about Thomas Edison as mentioned in a New York Times interview of 1931 💭

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

📷Stefano Bianchetti//Getty Images

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

@IndiaHistorypic Bombay, near Madh Islands.

[Vinay Kumar / ವಿನಯ ಕುಮಾರ್ @thevinaygreen]

I have another piece published on @enthucutletmag
This piece is an important piece for me; after my food & caste story, people only wanted to commission stories where my 'Dalitness' was more easy and obvious to consume. For now tell me what you think
https://t.co/30Tzth7kdk

[People's Archive of Rural India @PARInetwork]

“We've maintained the hills and the forests. Now the government has no land left, so they want to evict us.”

On Aug 9, World Indigenous People’s Day, Adivasis who live in and around Mumbai’s Aarey forest gathered for a show of strength and solidarity https://t.co/yuSaomQdVF

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. Many at the time believed it was the end of the world, leading Adolf Vollmy to create a woodcut inspired by the event.

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

Einstein caught in a light moment.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

A. Einstein on 'visualizing four dimensions' 🧠

No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically ... I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

-- as mentioned in Viereck interview (1929)
📷 photographed by Arthur Sasse

[indianhistorypics @IndiaHistorypic]

4500 Years Old Drainage System In Indus Valley Site of Lothal , Gujarat

[ghostofganymede @deepanjankd]

@fasc1nate Nikola Tesla.

[Dr Sarah Jilani @sarahjilani]

Happy birthday Samir Amin, born #OnThisDay in 1931, who analysed 'Eurocentrism as a global project that reinforced imperialism & systemic inequalities by legitimising a global system that expropriated resources & exploited people in the Global South' https://t.co/v7DGF8B8Gl