Piali Roy

I write. I tweet. I retweet. Home & the World with a Bengali twist. [email protected]

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

On now!

[CBC Radio's Ideas @cbcideas]

Madame Blavatsky — godmother of the #newage movement — co-founded modern Theosophy that combined mystical and magical beliefs.

@PialiRoy delves into this enigmatic figure of the late 19th century in this archive episode of IDEAS:

https://t.co/Q5JcJoTVbJ

@jiddix #Theosophy

[Panchali @PanchaliRay3]

I write on Gyanendra Pandey's book "Men at Home" and why men need to read more feminism before they decide to write on gender :)

[Vass Bednar @VassB]

When I was writing this I went down a rabbit hole of private equity buying (and lowering the quality of) fast food outlets like Tim Horton's, Subway, Quizno's. Breyer's technically not being "ice cream" anymore. I couldn't work it in but food is increasingly engineered.

[Craig McCarthy @createcraig]

Zohran Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair says she could never imagine years ago that her son would be mayor.

Asked if she’ll be involved, helping give advice to her son:

“Of course, I’m going to be the mother of New York City.”

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

Great punchline!

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 Our great friend and former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, will be featured on '22 Minutes' this Wednesday (New Year's Eve). 👍🏼

Looking young and refreshed, his STERLING sense of humour and comedic talent will once more be on display. ✅

No doubt some of our maple-MAGA friends will be overwrought with agony and ire.

I'm here for it. 😌

[Niigaan Sinclair @Niigaanwewidam]

@davidfrum @TheAtlantic This “article” is so completely baseless and nonsensical it barely deserves a response and would not pass any introductory university class, never mind appear in a periodical. You should be embarrassed at how this poorly reasoned, reactionary and constructed it is. Do better.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

And then what happened? Oblivion?

[Brianna Lyman @briannalyman2]

11th-great grandfather came on the Mayflower

10th-great grandfather founded Hartford

7th- great grandfather served in the 3rd Massachusetts Provincial Congress alongside Sam Adams/Hancock.

6th great granduncles served as minutemen in Lex & Concord

Proud Heritage American

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🕊️ 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

A great sketch can nail a concept so well, it becomes the final word. Since 1998, nobody has had to say or write another word about boorish, drunken British people in Indian restaurants, because Goodness Gracious Me's "Going For an English" was a literally unimprovable statement.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

@browndemic King’s College Circle.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

What the hell were those Shriners’ telethons about???

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

FYI…
There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid.
Because kids weren’t sick.

[Tithi Bhattacharya @DrTithi1917]

Today, the day before Diwali, is "bhut chaturdashi" in Bengal, a day when ghosts alight upon earth to terrorize or bless depending on whether you have lit 14 diyas/lamps in your home to cleanse and keep your home safe.

So today is a great day to share with you a generous review of my ghosts.

"Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence [is] a meditation on how cultural forms survive and adapt under conditions of political domination, how the marginalised create spaces for resistance within hegemonic discourses, and how the apparently dead past continues to shape living politics. In showing how supernatural beliefs were reshaped by colonial power, Bhattacharya reveals something profound about the creativity and violence of historical change itself."

https://t.co/0DFl8u29wY

[Boba Cyclist 정 @BobaCyclist]

As governor, Cuomo notably vetoed the bill that would disaggregate data on AAPI groups, so it’s no wonder that he can’t tell Asians apart 👍

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

This is after Cuomo was flooded with pushback for the error in his earlier tweet.

Incredible.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

@Mikeggibbs Sorry for your loss.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

Always like to RT this image.

[Ned Bertz @NedBertz]

It's so nice having a bunch of desi grad students in Hawai'i. Makes the islands feel more homey to be greeted with subho bijoya, happy Gandhi jayanti, and wishes for Dussehra. One also shared this lovely 1912 Gaganendranath painting of Durga immersion. Happy festival, all.

[David Rider @dmrider]

Mahdis worked *very* hard to reveal that speed cameras in most GTA municipalities don’t ticket drivers unless they are speeding at least 11 km-h over the limit, debunking @fordnation’s claims that people get dinged at 2 or 3 over

[. @jdpoc]

This is a feckin' AMAZING story.

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian of Reconstruction here read this post!

[Sarbjit Kaur @sarbjitkaur1]

They are deporting grannies. Poor Bibi Ji. What is even going on over there? Chaos.

[Piali Roy @PialiRoy]

Makes me wonder why tickets to an obscure Indian film at TIFF was on resale for at least triple the price.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster’s collusion with scalpers to resell hundreds of thousands of tickets to sports and music events at inflated prices forms the backbone of a new U.S. lawsuit against the world’s biggest ticketing company. https://t.co/7QinpQlFCt