S. Shankar

S. Shankar is a novelist, critic and translator. He teaches at the the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

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Sharing Ujay Siddharth's website and two-part blog on the clean energy paradox. Interesting read, I think, but then (full disclosure) I am his father! https://t.co/Woif2CbbEM

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Look what came today. Cynthia Franklin 's magnificent (can I say this? Yes I can!) new book! So excited to (re)read it in its finished form.

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#socialjustice #academicpublishing

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New book series aimed at social justice that functions inside/outside the university knowledge system. Proud to be working with Hosam Aboul-Ela, Cindy Franklin, Greta LaFleur, Louis Mendoza and Neferti Tadiar! May I ask you share? We want to hear from you at [email protected].

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"A Servant of the Whole World" is out in the wonderful Copper Nickel! Set in Madras. A sad short story about servitude across families, across and within national borders. A story about betrayal and the unrecognized costs of care. Diasporics are implicated, also non-diasporics.

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Re. attack on Rushdie--entirely condemnable, I truly wish him a full recovery. But ensuing debate has been SOOO un-useful. Dare I refer you to my Cultural Critique article "The Ruse of Freedom: A Comparative Essay on Ahimsa and Freedom of Expression?" https://t.co/844pSCXDXh

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@doctorpoco Congratulations, Amrita!

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@doctorpoco Thank you, Amrita, for this tweet. Really appreciate it! I'm hardly on social media these days, hence the late reply.

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First blog in a while. Free speech? What free speech? Why free speech? What else than free speech?
https://t.co/f7cTafOVNB

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Free speech? What free speech? Why free speech? A new blog. After a long time! https://t.co/o3mHxLmcGV

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@BruceRobbins6 Remembering exchange on fb a few months ago....

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Now live in Cultural Critique (#115)! Hoping to make a contribution to fresh thinking about free speech/hate speech via notions of ahimsa (non-violence or harm-less-ness). And suggest that neo-Buddhism can be critical theory too. Decolonize theory! #ahimsa #freespeech

[University of Hawai’i at Manoa English Department @uhmenglishdept]

Congratulations to UHM English Department PhD student Arielle Lowe, Poetry Coalition Fellow for Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po)!

Check out: https://t.co/FIoFY4Yy5A to learn more!

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In times of trouble.... listen to V. Doreswamy Iyengar. Really. I dare you to not find peace and healing.
https://t.co/24xMqPKJzK

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Reading the horror stories about what's going on in India. Remembering everyone who is loved and held close and missed--and who isn't? Feeling all the failures of all the politicians intent on all their little politician games.

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Thanks for the terrific interview @MsBiryani in the latest issue of Cerebration. Wonderful collection of material. Check it out!

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@hannahmanshel Kanafani, Le Guin, and I threw in a poem--Yeats' "Easter 1916." That discussion will be Sat. I'm looking forward to it.

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I'm reading from my recently published short story "Chennai Block South: Intrusion of Untouchables" at Indiana University (Bloomington) Creative Writing Program. Not the whole thing, probably just 30 mins, so we can discuss. Looking forward to it!

https://t.co/vfJkCnyzc3