Shantanu

Doctoral student in Anthropology at Stanford. Work on Caste, Cooperatives and Small-town Capitalism in India.

[WRI India @WRIIndia]

(1/3) Cities are no longer cooling down once the sun sets — turning heat stress into a round-the-clock occurrence.

For instance Delhi's heat pattern is driven by land use that clearly influences the land surface temperature (LST). Night temperatures do drop, but not evenly.

[Shantanu @shunthenoo]

@lakhsaad and I are proposing a panel in for the ACSA Madison in October 2026. The deadline for the panel submission is April 5, so please send your proposals ASAP if you are interested!

[Saad Lakhani @lakhsaad]

Please share your interest in our proposed panel, “Marginalization and Recognition in South Asia,” for the Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison, WI, October) via this form:

https://t.co/Xa7MAHnGKy

[Sudipto Mondal @mondalsudipto]

An alarming report by one of the country's top science journalists.

[Nisrin Elamin @minlayla77]

I wish more prospective PhD applicants knew that they might not get admitted if there isn’t anyone available to supervise them and NOT because they are not a strong candidate. 🧵 (1/2)

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

वो डरते हैं क्योंकि उन्हें पता है ये जातिवाद का ज़हर वो अपने दिलो-दिमाग़ से नहीं निकाल पायेंगे। और अगर एक कानून उनकी इस मानसिकता को - जो सदियों से ना सिर्फ़ उनका हक़ बल्कि उनका रोज़मर्रा का व्यवहार बन चुका है - आपराधिक बता दे तो सोचिए ये कितनी बड़ी चोट है।

डर ये नहीं है कि इसका दुरुपयोग होगा, असल डर ये है कि (पूरा सिस्टम उनका होते हुए भी, कभी कभी गलती से ही सही) इसका सदुपयोग होगा!

#UGCRegulations

[Anubhav Singh @lucifer_damned]

Ashwini Desphande, Sukhdeo Thorat show that this whole idea of “creamy layer” has no basis in reality. Jaffrelot’s work in Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra shows there’s minimal intra group disparity within Dalits. Lorentz curve for Dalits is closest to 45 degree. Now shove it !

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

[Shantanu @shunthenoo]

@parthpunter Also fitting because they did not play well, and only won because others played worse. Maybe they should just cancel the trophy itself than subject us to more of this drama

[Shantanu @shunthenoo]

A gem from @thecaravanindia's piece on the Niti Aayog which shows the incompetence of its officials, who confuse 'institutional memory' with computer memory. No wonder the institution lacks promise or relevance. https://t.co/eED51aqrua

[Sreenivasan Jain @SreenivasanJain]

The "very erection" of Babri mosque was the "fundamental act of desecration", DY Chandrachud tells me.

A startling statement -- all the more given the verdict he co-authored clearly says no evidence was supplied to show if the earlier structure was demolished to build a mosque.

Link to full interview: https://t.co/TyaKG95dhJ @newslaundry

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Humanities academics tend to think that the best way of critiquing something is to provide a genealogy of it. To combat this phenomenon, we must understand its roots

[Maia @maiamindel]

Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts to the humanities come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money?

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Suleman Pathan organised the village's Ganpati festival, all his friends were Hindu, he called them his jaan.

Last week, some of his dearest friends lynched him for talking to a Hindu girl.

Reporting on this heartbreaking story from a Maharashtra village. @Article14live

[Shantanu @shunthenoo]

@airindia sends me a message every third day changing my flight time by 10-20 minutes. They have now cancelled my flight altogether, the second one of this trip they have cancelled. I am done; never booking Air India again!

[Mukta Joshi @mukta_jo]

For @JewishCurrents, I audited hundreds of claims of “Hinduphobia” made by the Hindu American Foundation and found that the organization routinely misclassifies anti-Asian racism, anti-Muslim violence, and criticism of Hindu nationalism as anti-Hindu hate. #Thread

[Greeshma Kuthar @jeegujja]

That @MaktoobMedia is the only media agency tracking this massive violation of every rule of human rights, dignity and humanity in the world is telling of what represents journalism in India. Thank you Team Maktoob for your perseverance in spite of everything y'all are up against

[Noor Ejaz Chaudhry @noorejazch]

The people of Kashmir lose more than anyone else every time India and Pakistan fight it out over the region. Tightened military control. Suffocating spot checks. Curfews. Raids. Insecurity that anyone might be an insurgent. Thoughts with Kashmiri families.

[Hussain Haidry @hussainhaidry]

Indian Media is actively and deliberately lying and inciting a huge number of citizens to lust more for war—and seek for adventure in bloodshed. This is all a coordinated and cold-blooded crime.

[Siddarth K.M. (சித்தார்த் கோ.மு.) @Sidzepp]

Even if ridiculed, even if trolled, even if called names, adopting an anti-war stance and calling for de-escalation is the only right thing to do, for any professional. Especially journalists.

[Anubhav Singh @lucifer_damned]

If you claim to be “left” then there’s only one position to take here and that’s anti war. You can’t cheerlead retaliation & then claim to be “left”. Applicable to either side. Giving in to nationalistic propaganda & marching to drums of war isn’t an option for you.