Manipur in Northeast India has been in the grip of violent conflict for the last year and a half. On State of Southasia, senior journalist Patricia Mukhim talks about the complete disruption of lives and livelihoods in the state. https://t.co/3ySqE4IsRA
Crosscuts is happening again! EHL's environmental humanities festival for film and text will be held at KTH on the 6-7 Nov. In this edition, we will explore forests and the many diverse relationships we have with forests. Full program here: https://t.co/eJa5lEI09l
1/2 @MaterializingB reviews 'The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices" for Journal of Contemporary Religion.
He notes, "religion is about the making and maintenance of intimacies"...
https://t.co/xTYoqK6HLL
"Modi has lost his win; the opposition alliance has won its loss...Much is still up in the air, including private jets carrying public figures and their extremely conditional support, but democracy seems to have resumed normal programming."
My piece.
https://t.co/Avs9PXYpJH
I argue that Nazi Nuremberg laws echo in India-
Anti-conversion laws drastically curtail the freedom of adults to choose their partners outside their religion
CAA excludes only undocumented Muslims from a presumption that they are persecuted minorities.
https://t.co/4hKWunjxVr
Hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today marched with torches to honour those killed by the disaster. “Mourn for the Dead Fight for the Living.” #Bhopal39
Register for a virtual Book Discussion on "The Efficacy of Intimacy & Belief in Worldmaking Practices".
Friday, Jan. 19 '24. 10-11:30am US EST.
Hear authors discuss their chapters according to themes of spiritual and social agency, art, and politics.
https://t.co/Dja9rcUqhA
@stevermentz Not at all @stevermentz! I attended the discussion this morning, and I am so glad that I did. Many congratulations! I look forward to reading the book.
"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read.
https://t.co/db9DBv32Wv
A Fukushima resident filmed this video yesterday. She wanted to see the Ocean before the dumping. Her teenage grandchild has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and undergone two surgeries since 2011. She is heartbroken. This is her testimony. https://t.co/ZJiy2hm0Of
'I climbed Hijiyama Hill and looked down. I saw that Hiroshima had disappeared. Finding nothing left of Hiroshima was so shocking that I simply can’t express what I felt. Hiroshima didn’t exist. Hiroshima just didn’t exist.' (A-bomb survivor, 78 years ago today) Lest we forget...
The radicalization of India’s majority has been quietly going on for quite some time. I spent few months embedded with Bajrang Dal, and wrote about how it happens. #JaipurExpressTerrorAttack https://t.co/ZQYFOrUK3N
John Oliver, host of @LastWeekTonight, has seen While We Watched TWICE! @iamjohnoliver hosted the Opening Night Q&A of the film at @IFCCenter with filmmaker Vinay Shukla & journalist Ravish Kumar @ravishndtv.
Watch it at the IFC Center now!. Tickets: https://t.co/mpBSSuOpuq
Next week we are hosting the last lecture for the semester: "Hiroshima's Ghostly Shadows" by Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine) The public lecture on 25.7. at 4:15pm CET (livestream: https://t.co/jg4Jxaxq20) is also the opening for a workshop on "Nuclear Ghosts"
“The human cost of Oppenheimer’s Trinity Test, and all nuclear weapons activities, is a crucial part of the conversation around U.S. nuclear legacy..."—
@LillyJAdams, Senior Outreach Coordinator for UCS's Global Security Program.
#Oppenheimer
https://t.co/V2dvpQeZP5
The media reports based on a video emerging out of Manipur allegedly showing a mob of Meitei men assaulting and parading two tribal Kuki women naked to gang-rape them is a shocking reminder of the scale and severity of the ongoing impunity in the state.
https://t.co/RplArNScVM