Hiya

Assistant Professor, research scholar. Gender studies, South Asian studies, culture studies, queer theory et al.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

There used to be a #femalefriendship tradition in Bengal called 'shoi patano', literally translated as 'making friends'. It involved girls as well as adult, often married women, giving each other names, gifts as tokens of affection, and sustaining intense friendships that 1/n

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Fasting for 24 hours in solidarity. #masshungerstrike #dharmendrapradhanmustresign #cockroachjantaparty #sonamwangchuk

[CJP Updates @CJP_is_back]

BIG UPDATE

Tomorrow, July 16th, join us for 1-day mass hunger strike in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk and the students of this country.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

As you sow, so shall you reap.

[Bengal Cartel 🔱 @TheBengalCartel]

State Govt employees in West Bengal wanted DA (Dearness allowance)

What they got - Mandatory smart meter at home & mandatory attendance in Yog Divas

[Stereotypewriter @babumoshoy]

Tough to call it ‘public anger’ when you realise eggs have not been hurled at the ‘rebel’ TMC MPs.

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

Yale built the entire Open Yale Courses project around one stubborn idea: that a real liberal arts education should not be locked behind a quarter-million-dollar tuition bill.

The woman who launched it is a Yale art history professor named Diana Kleiner.

I only learned her name after going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why these courses felt so different from everything else online.

Here is what she actually built. Not a preview. Not a stripped-down sampler. The genuine Yale courses, recorded in the real Yale College classroom, released in video, audio, and full searchable transcripts, with the original syllabus and reading lists attached. Free, under a license that lets anyone download, share, and remix the material.

Her stated mission was simple. Expand access to educational materials for everyone who wants to learn, and protect the values of a liberal arts education that goes beyond memorizing facts toward independent thought.

So she put Yale's best introductory courses online and asked nothing in return. No fee, no registration, no certificate dangled to make you pay.

You can audit the same courses Yale students pay over $65,000 a year for, right now.

The hardest part was never getting in. It was knowing the door was already open.

https://t.co/bKiUyWfo2Z

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

May her voice never be silenced. May she speak her scissored tongue that grazes all who come in the way.

[𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐫✰ @ImHuMeer786H]

इस लड़की ने बहोत ही ज़बरदस्त बोला है 🤌

शाबाश 👏👏

[D Ghosh @deeghosh]

আমরা আগেই বলেছি এভাবেই সরকারী পরিবহন একদিন তুলে দেবে এই বিজেপি সরকার।
মিলিয়ে নিন। এসব পাবলিক গিমিকের আড়ালে আসল সত‍্যিটা বেসরকারীকরণ। বেচে দেবার ধান্দা॥
শুনুন…।

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Limitless in their incompetence.

[Priya Sinha @PriyaSinh26]

Missed my RBI Grade B exam today (13-06-2026) due to train delay. Gate closed at 8:15AM. Boarded 5:36AM Andul-Howrah local, reached Howrah at 8:17AM (took 2h 41m for a 30m journey). Year of hard work ruined. @RBI @AshwiniVaishnaw @RailMinIndia @serailwayty @drm_howrah #RBIGradeB

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Witnessed this first-hand when we last visited Meghalaya, and also noticed the stark difference from my last visit more than ten years ago.

[Anubhav Gupta @anubhavgupta_ji]

So "NARENDRA MODI" govt. now cutting the Meghalaya Mountains, Mining over there to send it to Bangladesh.

Narendra Modi actually sold India.

Save India from BJP.🥀

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

This was painful to watch

[Anant Gupta @AnantGuptaAG]

🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Even Sushmita Dev was struggling to stop herself from laughing out loud.

It seems that Arnab Goswami did not know where Saugata Roy’s loyalties lay. The Dum Dum MP hasn’t abandoned Mamata Banerjee yet.

[Kamru Choudhury @Kamru_Choudhury]

Reports of 1000’s of EVM burnt in a Govt building fire in Kolkata raises serious questions on the Bengal Elections 2026, after the expose on Rajarhat Newtown constituency Vote Chori.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Phenomenal piece of writing.

[Sumana Roy @SumanaSiliguri]

How many trees are there in the Mona Lisa? From Ways of Seeing to Ways of Treeing. My essay in the Indian Express today.
https://t.co/hUCbqxuPQn

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Farce

[Shinjinee Majumder @shinjineemjmdr]

The numbers in full: CPI(M)-ISF candidate Saptarshi Deb got 1 vote from Booth 164. TMC's Tapash Chatterjee got 5. BJP's Piyush Kanodia, who won the seat, got 637 out of 656 votes polled.

[Agnivo Niyogi (অগ্নিভ নিয়োগী) @Aagan86]

Every year, Kolkata becomes filled with flags of European and Latin American countries like Brazil, Argentina and Portugal during World Cup Football.

But this year, a pale of gloom has taken over the city. There's hardly any interest or enthusiasm.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Only one seat in the Assembly,and yet the Left is what stands tall and hard in front of the fascist machinery and tools.

[Aparna @chhuti_is]

The grey-haired one wearing green t-shirt is Dr Sujan Chakraborty, who plays the role of my father in his absence. I am so proud of you @Sujan_Speak.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Congress is doing Congress' job. No point in complaining like idiots that RG attend the CJP protest.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Cockroaches from Congress in Haryana.

[Peek TV @PeekTV_in]

#PeekOnGround : Is the Cockroach Janata Party an anti-national protest? We spoke to one of Delhi University's most experienced and loved teacher Nandita Narain who had joined the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar and asked her views on India's crumbling education system.

[Hiya @hiyachatt]

Umm...we recently travelled from Siliguri to Kolkata and the train was more than 8 hours late. Improve existing services first, will you?

[Indrajit Kundu | ইন্দ্রজিৎ @iindrojit]

🔴 #BreakingNews | Rail Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw announces bullet train project for Bengal

▪️Bullet train to connect national capital Delhi with Siliguri

▪️Travel time to be reduced to six hours

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

💔 "Nobody can take your freedom. I have lived in a dictatorship. There was a ban on everything! Was I less free in my mind? No, I wasn’t. Did I become a stupid person? No, I didn’t. Because no matter how much they looked at me, they could not get into my mind."
~ Marjane Satrapi

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

A man named Riazuddin saved 12 people's lives in a Delhi fire by spreading mattresses worth Rs 2 lakh from his shop.