Shiva Suriya

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PhD-ing in Tamil Da-lit🔥 Cinema🎞, Sound🥁 nd Audiences🎭 |

[Shiva Suriya @shivasuryaa]

10/10 baddie😼

[Shiva Suriya @shivasuryaa]

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[Shiva Suriya @shivasuryaa]

Presented my paper "Between the Spectator and the Spectacle: Tamil Dalit Cinema and the Limits of Dalit Visibilities" today at the British Association of South Asian Studies (@BASASofficial ) Annual Conference 2026, held at SOAS University of London, (11-13 September 2026).

[Arun Kumar @arunk_patel]

Why do we assume intellectuals come only from elite institutions or privileged backgrounds?

My column in the Indian Express @IndianExpress argues that we’ve overlooked a long tradition of worker-intellectuals—people whose ideas emerge from lived experience and labour.

Column 👇

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Universities in India have been systematically dismantled, students have had their futures destroyed, and institutions serving marginalised communities have been systematically targeted for years. JNU, AMU, TISS were never isolated incidents; they were chapters of the same story. If we speak up today on the hunger strike by Sonam Wangchuk and other students, the draconian use of power to silence the protests, let it not be because this is finally a "safe" issue to support, but because we recognise the pattern and understand that an attack on one student's right to education is ultimately an attack on everyone's.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Since the country is urging Sonam Wangchuk to end his fast and the focus is on the future of our children. The UP administration wants to bulldoze a sprawling Maulana Ali Jauhar University that is home to thousands of marginalised students since 2006. Really hope we speak up

[Gurubaai @ItsGurubaai]

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[Shiva Suriya @shivasuryaa]

@prapaarr

[MADHUVADHANI M @madhu_0703]

With all agreement to the criticism over DMK, to those saying that DMK is responsible for its own defeat, I would kindly request you to look at the candidates who won the constituency from TVK (1)

[Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval]

"Strategic non-alignment" my foot - we're literally part of the fucking axis of evil right now.

[Shiva Suriya @shivasuryaa]

Presented my first paper @CAsianSAfricaUP — Stuart Hall in and from the Global South! Spoke on Tamil Dalit Cinema🎞. Grateful to @alfgunvald & his team for the platform and support to begin this academic journey. ✊🏼💙
#EngagingStuartHall
#3rdAnnualCasaLecture

[Centre for Asian Studies in Africa @CAsianSAfricaUP]

Our last panel ending it with a bang!

#EngagingStuartHall
#3rdAnnualCasaLecture

[Oppressor @TyrantOppressor]

The term Hinduism is a modern label for Brahmanism, originally Neo-Brahminism, which is now referred to as Sanatan.

As people became aware, it was no longer clever to name a religion after a single caste, so it was simply called Hindu.

The world congress of religions 1893 :

[SFI Delhi @SfiDelhi]

Rise in rage! Ensure justice for the survivor at South Asian University!

#Protest #SouthAsianUniversity

[Sasanka Perera @sasmester]

This is what happens when an institution's criminality goes unchecked, violation of local rules and norms tolerated and when culprits in gender based violence in the recent past have been protected and victims penalized ....

[pamela philipose @pamelaphilipose]

Remembering the amazing and ever inspiring Prof G N Saibaba, a year after his death. "I still stubbornly refuse to die/ The sad thing is that/ They don't know how to kill me..."