MISS BOMBAYWALLA

Between Tardeo & Altamont Road

[Danish Khan @DanishKhan80]

Excited to reveal the cover of my forthcoming book, Muslim Capitalism: A Political and Legal History of Colonial Bombay. Coming soon from Cambridge University Press. Looking forward to sharing more about the project soon!

@CambridgeUP

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

Anand Patwardhan: The taming of the Mumbai Press Club
The expulsion of the institution’s former president and two other veteran journalists is a sign of how spaces for democratic discussion are shrinking in India.

https://t.co/FtcWUdz1Ud

[The Wire @thewire_in]

‘Parsiana’, an Iconic Parsi Magazine, Falls Silent

Tributes have been pouring in since Parsiana announced its closure. | @chirptwit✍️
https://t.co/5DXQ5faAxo

[Rajinder Arora @chirptwit]

Something I am going to miss for a long long time, Parsiana.

[Rahul Bhatia @socmedrab]

There's so much in this marvelous profile of Romila Thapar by @rkarnad. It felt like reading about independent India itself. Just beautiful. https://t.co/ontD8yMALD

[DrRavi @DrGodseRavi1]

King Edward Memorial Hospital!

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Said was beautifully dressed, although I think there's only a tenuous connection between intellectualism and an interest in aesthetics. Nonetheless, an interesting thing about Said is that he used tailors — real tailors — who are among the last to treat customers as real individuals in an age of mass production. My friend Eugene Rabkin, who's coming out with a book this fall titled Torn: Fashion and Post-Modernism, recently sent me this quote by Walter Benjamin:

“On the theory of dandyism. The tailor’s the last line of business in which the customer is still catered to on an individual basis. More and more, the person commissioning work plays a heroic role.”

If we're to take Marx's theory of alienation seriously, then having a relationship with a tailor — depending on how the shop is set up — can be a way to mitigate some of the alienation inherent in capitalist production.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Three Western Women Scholars Who Pioneered the Study of India’s Anti-Caste Movements https://t.co/e5JWX3lnpM via @thewire_In

[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

‘The removal of Lutyens’ bust is a denial of history and a disservice to a professional.’

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Sad to read that the bust of Lutyens (my great grandfather) is to be removed from the presidential palace he designed in Delhi. Here I am with it last year. I wondered at the time why his name had been removed from the plinth.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

So Naseeruddin Shah is ‘disinvited’ by Mumbai university. Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde’s talk is cancelled at the Kalaghoda festival under Mumbai police orders. Will the ‘mob’ and their state patrons now decide who can speak and who cannot in public fora? Is this not DEMOCRACY IN RECESSION? SHAME!😡

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

Even as the closure of Merwan has been mourned, the shuttering of the decades-old Cafe Delight on Hill Road in Bandra on Dec 31 has gone unremarked. 1/n

[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

Mama & Baba at The Gathering!

[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

@sohinichat Have kept it for you

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Merry Xmas everyone! 🌟It’s a season of good cheer, of reflection and hope. Here is to peace, harmony, good health and happiness. (Video below: a chapel in Mumbai opens Christmas carols with the national anthem🇮🇳). Joy to the world!⭐️🎄

[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

Poona, where even JNU alumni can feel like celebrities! 🤓

[Arundhati Roy @royarundhti]

Thank you #SupremeCourt

[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

'A wide-eyed girl not long out of Oxford, arriving to interview aged widows in run-down but solid houses that were about to be swept away.'
https://t.co/mp7w6KIe3W

[Anupam Gupta @b50]

Naseeruddin Shah remembers Satish Shah. Beautiful. And that ending. Sigh. @IndianExpress

https://t.co/dmAFh5Jd8Y

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Mary Roy was a big part of all of her students lives, including mine. I still haven't managed to read the book, but my sister @Indulekha_A has read it and written her thoughts here. I must read it now!