Radha

Associate Prof. @durham_history formerly @sheffielduni & @KingsCollegeLon
📚📕 Music in Colonial Punjab, 2023 • Punjab Sounds, 2024 • Performing ‘Nature’, 2025

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

Thank you so much 🙏🏽 Beyond honoured to have my book shortlisted, and to now receive a Special Mention alongside the brilliant A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal, winner of the 2024 Karwaan Book Award.

[Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative @karwaanheritage]

Special Mention: the Karwaan Book Award 2024

Congratulations to Radha Kapuria for Music in Colonial Punjab published by Oxford University Press ! An exploration of Punjab’s rich musical heritage, from courtesans to classical traditions, and its evolution through colonial times.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Masterpieces of Karachi Museum

The National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi is sadly neglected. Unlike the museums in Lahore and Peshawar, it is tragically underfunded and badly maintained. And yet it contains some of the greatest masterpieces of South Asian art.

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

🗺️ What can South Asia teach us about borders, migration, ecology & belonging?

Join leading scholars, artists & practitioners at Durham University on 18-19 June for two days of conversations challenging how we think about borders in the contemporary world.

#SouthAsia #Borders #Migration #Ecology #DurhamUniversity

@BASASofficial @NESouthAsia @GeogDurham @DurhamIAS @durham_uni

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

🎬 From Raja–Rani Attam performer to Professor.

Join us for a screening of Punishing the Professor (2025), a powerful documentary on Dr P. Senrayaperumal's struggle against caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu.

As part of the Renegotiating Borders In & Beyond South Asia event (18-19 June).

📅 19 June, 1:30 pm
📍 Durham University
#FilmScreening #SouthAsia #Caste #Documentary

@BASASofficial @DurhamIAS @GeogDurham @NESouthAsia

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

@fayyaz_shabana @NESouthAsia @durham_uni @ibrudurham @GeogDurham @BASASofficial @BASAS_SAS Hello! Sadly, it is only in person.

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

📢Registration open!
Renegotiating Borders in & beyond South Asia

📍Durham University
📅18–19 June 2026

2 days of crossdisciplinary conversations on borders, mobility, coloniality, environment & migration with scholars, artists + creative practitioners.
#SouthAsia #Borders

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

@GeogDurham @ibrudurham @durham_uni @NESouthAsia @BASASofficial @BASAS_SAS

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

@GeogDurham @ibrudurham @durham_uni @NESouthAsia

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Is being mayor worth it?

Really appreciated this question from a @WNYC audience member.

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

@pervaizalam @anniezaidi @thehappydance Thank you so much, Pervaiz! I am happy to report that we have successfully made contact with Mansi 🙏🏽

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

Seeking contact with actor @thehappydance re: this video of her grandma singing. For a project on Partition & women's music-keen to interview her Nani (a former All India Radio Lahore singer). Film/theatre contacts-any leads ? 🙏🏽
https://t.co/JkgFijXVlK?
sị=31T3msMWqfLhVYtp

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

@anniezaidi @thehappydance @pervaizalam Thank you so much, Annie!

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Lovely map showing the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet 'ka' in every Brahmi-derived script... It vividly shows the reach of the Golden Road

[Yousuf Saeed @saeedyousuf]

To pay homage to Raza Kazim saheb who passed away in Lahore today, we release our 2006 documentary 'Khayal Darpan' for free streaming. (Type zero in amount while ordering it). https://t.co/lBkfXDmNlu

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

In no other culture is the birthday of a real recent historical figure celebrated as an emancipatory festival w. so much spontaneous joy, community mobilization and an enthusiasm that no moneyed PR can buy!

We are because he was! Jai Bhim 🩵
Happy Babasaheb Jayanti 🌸

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

With thanks to @LeverhulmeTrust and @unishefhistory for generously supporting the colloquium in 2021 that led to this book!
@s_lamberthurley

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

A wonderful Punjab Sounds discussion at CSDS yesterday (to coincide with Baisakhi and Ambedkar Jayanti today)—rich, generous, and full of new directions.

Grateful to Navkiran Natt & T. Brandon Evans , and to all who joined us.

#PunjabSounds #SouthAsia #SoundStudies
@csdsdelhi

[𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓪𝓻 @yansan]

Back in 1996, a pretty incredible album called 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 hit the scene. It was a rare meeting of two musical giants, sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and the legendary Asha Bhosle. Together, they pulled together an unprecedented collection of eleven Indian classical pieces dating back to the 16th–18th century Mughal courts.
​While Asha Ji provided the vocals, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan performed the sarod and Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri backed them up on the tabla and pakhawaj. It was a beautiful bridge between eras, and the music world definitely took notice. The album even earned a well-deserved Grammy nomination in 1997.
Below 👇 - Miya ki Malhar from the Album.
#AshaBhosle

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Indian Synagogues Run By Muslims

There has perhaps never been a more important moment to remember the sacred spaces shared peacefully by both Muslims and Jews and so, for this week's Substack, I want to talk about the synagogues of Calcutta.

[Radha @RadhaKapuria]

Tomorrow at 4pm IST / 11:30 am UK.

[CSDS, Delhi @csdsdelhi]

[INVITATION] Book discussion on ‘Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region’ on 13th April 2026 at CSDS, Delhi. For Details, Click https://t.co/6lHsm9Tirl