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Samyak Ghosh (he/they)
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Queer Historian, PhD @ Columbia University, Writing a book on Courtly Cultures in Hindustan, Interested in South Asian Art, Public History, Assistant Professor @ NLSIU 🏳️‍🌈
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Surprised and pleased to find //Scripts of Power// in this list! www.saaganthology.com/vol-2-issue-...
SAAG’s 2024 In Reading
These reflections do not aim to present a neat list of 2024’s "best" books or "essential reads." Instead, they are fragments of what stayed with us; works that lingered and called us back.
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December 28, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Have I read all the books I own? No. Will I keep buying more while re-reading my favourites? Of course. My bookshelf, my rules.
December 15, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.
Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color, Study Finds
A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.
truthout.org
December 2, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I love how Bluesky is spreading hope and love. To everyone who are here and to those who will be here, let us keep our world free from hate ❤️
November 30, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Not a new paper, but still helps (1/2)

PhD survival guide @embopress.org

#PhD #PhDlife #academics #scisky #medsky
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Was waiting for a Saturday like this for weeks! I finally found time to stay at home and read fiction.

If you love getting lost in narratives that challenge you to think differently then here’s what you should be reading. Thank me later :)
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Here is a beautiful little book by Mulk Raj Anand & Pulak Biswas. Anand imagines Mohenjodaro through a day in the life of a little girl, Maya. The book is available in several Indian languages @ Internet Archive. You can download, print, and share with kids who love to read :)
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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November 25, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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William Dalrymple knows zilch abt methodology & critical thinking.

“Historians will no doubt cringe at the reduction of the majestic diversity of the subcontinent’s religions, philosophies and sciences, as well as languages, into a singular “Sanskritic” sun”.

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The Indocentric Road Taken
An ode to a “forgotten” India which needs to be given its rightful place in a Euro-American-centric globe ends up replacing one form of cultural supremacy with another. The obsession with an original ...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Be darking up early
November 17, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Sunset in the City
November 16, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Last night's Full Moonish. 15 November 2024. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 AM
My first post here, hoping our skies remain blue, beautiful, and free. Wherever we are 🏳️‍🌈
November 17, 2024 at 9:34 AM