Aditi Saraf

anthropologist working on borderlands, militarization, political economy @UniUtrecht

[Aditi Saraf @saraf_aa]

I remember being utterly baffled by conversations around the 1991 'hawala scandal' in India.

In a new article for @EconSocJournal, I revisit the scandal and it's far-reaching implications, especially for traders in Kashmir
https://t.co/OlW8owztis

[Aditi Saraf @saraf_aa]

On spiritual itineraries that connect Punjab, Palestine and Kashmir - and refuse to stay partitioned.

Arpan Roy, 'From Punjab to Palestine: Baba Farid’s Spiritual Geography,' Errant Journal, 7 May 2026, https://t.co/PprDS9XkH8.

[dwai banerjee @dwai_banerjee]

Book Launch Alert!

I'll be talking about my new book "Computing in the Age of Decolonization", out from @PrincetonUPress, at the @MITMuseum on April 27, in conversation with the wonderful @moikiweigel.

The book traces India's ambitious postcolonial drive to build its own computing industry, and why that vision was abandoned.

Mon 4/27, 6–7:30pm | $5 (free for students) Books + signing after, courtesy @mitpbookstore

https://t.co/NgYOZYWINR

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. The US and Israel have deliberately bombed over 30 universities across Iran, assassinating professors in their homes and massacring over 60 students. Washington is systematically trying to destroy Iranian scientific progress.

[Aditi Saraf @saraf_aa]

An important - and prescient- history of arms control and imperial overreach in Iran

https://t.co/n4jrtC8bOG

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

A new @Oxfam report finds the world's billionaires hold $18.3 trillion of wealth. This inequality warps the economy and threatens democracy, says Oxfam chief @AmitabhBehar. "These billionaires are now not happy being rich and richer. They really want now political power."

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Jeffrey Sachs: the Europeans "went along with every abuse", against Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, so then "it's a little sad," when they are "surprised" about Denmark and Greenland.

[Surbhi Gupta @bysurbhigupta]

Our first story of 2026 from India @newlinesmag is from a small town of Ennore, close to Chennai, and how the fishing community is dealing with regular oil spills in the region. By @plaasya and @pragathi_r24

https://t.co/cwS9JgZQKk

[SikhPark @SikhPark]

We see countless shots of the Golden Temple, but I wanted something different. This morning at 6 AM, I got that chance. With temperatures at 2°C, the freezing air, and the soft winter morning mist, I think i captured the perfect shot.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Just one more thing:

The procedural history of these bail pleas in Delhi’s constitutional courts should itself stand as a case study in how executive pressure meets judicial timidity, and how liberty dies by adjournment.

Two successive Chief Justices of the Delhi High Court, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Manmohan, remained silent while administrative delays crippled the bail hearings in a case watched across the world—one that demanded justice not merely to be done but seen to be done. Both now serve as Supreme Court justices.

Four High Court judges sat on completed hearings for months, without passing a verdict, defying the Supreme Court’s own mandate prescribing expeditious pronouncement of judgments in fully heard cases. Two of them were promoted as Chief Justices of two High Courts.

Two Chief Justices of India, D.Y. Chandrachud and B.R. Gavai, who postured as champions of liberty, avoided hearing the matter themselves despite unmistakable signs of executive pressure at the court below. Instead, both invoked their roster powers, sometimes disregarding the court’s own rules and conventions, to assign these urgent bail pleas to junior judges whose known inclinations in such matters raised credible apprehensions of bias.

When future historians document how institutions bent in this era, these cases and judges will be among the prominent exhibits.

[Aditi Saraf @saraf_aa]

Farewell to the brilliant, fierce and funny Debbie, one of the coolest teachers and persons I have known. https://t.co/1zi83e9EAs

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

It is incredibly embarrassing for this continent that Sanchez has to join a group of Latin American leaders in issuing a statement of condemnation for the US invasion, because no other leader in Europe will join him in criticising 🇺🇸.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

"Please avoid accurately describing reality, because this might imply criticism of the US regime, of which we are a designated vassal state."

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

India deciding that two hostile neighbours aren’t enough and actively manufacturing a third one because the BJP voters need to be kept in a perpetual state of hysterical outrage is where we are today

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

"I am really happy for the others, who got bail! So relieved", Umar said.

"I'll come tomorrow for Mulaqat", I replied.

"Good good, aa jana. Ab yahi zindagi hai".

#UmarKhalid

[Ashutosh Bhardwaj @ashubh]

"Almost half the profit US takes from Latin America is from Venezuela..no country has yielded as much for world capitalism in so short a time:the wealth drained from Venezuela exceeds what Spaniards took from Potosi or English from India."
I quote Galeano.
https://t.co/LdX2dkDlrP

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

it's only a violation if you read international law literally rather than as a spiritual allegory

[communist captain obvious 🍉 @pippercorn]

glad i didn’t really waste any time studying international law seeing as how it is fake and meaningless

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

India is not for all Indians. India is for upper caste hindi speaking folks. If you are Muslim, Christian, Dalit, Adivasi, from north-east, if you speak Bengali etc etc, then this country doesn't give you equal rights. Earlier there was a pretence, now even that is vanished in the last few years.

[Hurst Publishers @HurstPublishers]

📚 City of Kashmir: Srinagar, A Popular History by @HamdaniSameer is now available!

'Captures the glorious, layered richness of the city’s past without drifting into romanticism.' @myraemacdonald

Buy at a 25% discount w/promo code KASHMIR25 here ➡️https://t.co/d3Tx6P8dei

[Cāmuk @Albert_Camuk]

maybe there’s a srk silent rebellion after all