Satyam Yadav
@satyamyadav.bsky.social
Curating/thinking at a slant
Labour, sexuality, and the political economy of contemporary arts in South Asia. currently: @new_curators, @the-new-centre.bsky.social
Labour, sexuality, and the political economy of contemporary arts in South Asia. currently: @new_curators, @the-new-centre.bsky.social
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For the first time in five years, Delhi celebrated Diwali without a blanket ban on firecrackers after the Supreme Court ruled to allow so-called “green crackers.”
Delhi Pollution Hits ‘Hazardous’ Levels After City Celebrates Diwali With ‘Green’ Firecrackers (Photos)
For the first time in five years, Delhi celebrated Diwali without a blanket ban on firecrackers after the Supreme Court ruled to allow so-called “green crackers.”
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
For the first time in five years, Delhi celebrated Diwali without a blanket ban on firecrackers after the Supreme Court ruled to allow so-called “green crackers.”
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There are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
June 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
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Today on the blog, Sandipto Dasgupta discusses his new book on the transition from anticolonialism to postcolonialism in the writing of the Indian constitution. He questions narratives of a conflict between singular "indigenous" vs. "Western" political traditions.
From Anticolonialism to Constitutional Capture: An Interview with Sandipto Dasgupta
by Zainab Firdausi
web.sas.upenn.edu
May 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today on the blog, Sandipto Dasgupta discusses his new book on the transition from anticolonialism to postcolonialism in the writing of the Indian constitution. He questions narratives of a conflict between singular "indigenous" vs. "Western" political traditions.
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In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri.
Read & access here:
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – A Tribute through the Wasafiri Archive
In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri.
Read & access here:
Read & access here:
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In his new book "Empty Vessel," the historian Ian Kumekawa landed on an ingenious way to make the abstractions of globalization feel more concrete: Tell the story of neoliberalism from the perspective of a barge. (The pic is from its stint as a "floating jail" in the East River in 1992.)
The Story of Globalization, as Told Through One Big Barge
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In his new book "Empty Vessel," the historian Ian Kumekawa landed on an ingenious way to make the abstractions of globalization feel more concrete: Tell the story of neoliberalism from the perspective of a barge. (The pic is from its stint as a "floating jail" in the East River in 1992.)
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As we commemorate the end of WW2 and the end of the 3rd Reich, let’s not forget no “Allied” nation cared about antisemitism or Hitler’s eugenicist ethno-nationalist project until Germany started invading the rest of Europe.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
As we commemorate the end of WW2 and the end of the 3rd Reich, let’s not forget no “Allied” nation cared about antisemitism or Hitler’s eugenicist ethno-nationalist project until Germany started invading the rest of Europe.
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The cray cray descent into chaos, killing and war begins. This is a time for moral clarity not never-ending hyperboles of war rhetoric. Not now, not ever.
We must make the cry for peace louder than the drums of war. We cannot let two nuclear powers descend into chaos. The time to act for peace is now: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
India strikes nine sites in Pakistan weeks after Kashmir militant attack – live
India confirms ‘precision strike’; loud explosions reported in Pakistani Kashmir
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The cray cray descent into chaos, killing and war begins. This is a time for moral clarity not never-ending hyperboles of war rhetoric. Not now, not ever.
this was so good!
www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
The Romance of Being Unreadable
In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.
www.vulture.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
this was so good!
www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
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Israel is blocking aid for dying Palestinians as it wages war on them, while asking for global help to recover from wildfires started by settlers who torched Palestinian land. The hypocrisy is staggering, denying help to their victims while seeking it when facing consequences meant for Palestinians.
May 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Israel is blocking aid for dying Palestinians as it wages war on them, while asking for global help to recover from wildfires started by settlers who torched Palestinian land. The hypocrisy is staggering, denying help to their victims while seeking it when facing consequences meant for Palestinians.
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It’s almost like none of this was ever remotely about protecting Jews
SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives.
New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
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New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
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Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
The Antisemitism Awareness Act's added language says it would not infringe on religious liberty to protect the claim that Jews killed Jesus.
forward.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s almost like none of this was ever remotely about protecting Jews
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Newsletter, newest:
Not Mayday but May Day: Trump Craters, the Public Rises to the Occasion
There's an old saying that March came in like a lion and left like a lamb. April came in a bit sheepishly and is leaving roaring and baring its teeth, and tomorrow is May Day. Not Mayday as the distre...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Newsletter, newest:
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Social and economic justice for all workers on this planet remains impossible without anti-colonial and anti-occupation mobilisation against current wars of occupation.
Do not let them colonise our minds.
Happy Labour Day ✊🏽
Do not let them colonise our minds.
Happy Labour Day ✊🏽
May 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Social and economic justice for all workers on this planet remains impossible without anti-colonial and anti-occupation mobilisation against current wars of occupation.
Do not let them colonise our minds.
Happy Labour Day ✊🏽
Do not let them colonise our minds.
Happy Labour Day ✊🏽
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"It’s unlikely that under capitalism we will see any genuine transition from fossil fuels. In this sense, the green transition is a myth. It’s not happening—and certainly not at the pace necessary to mitigate the worst case scenarios of the climate disaster."
Adam Hanieh on the 'green transition':
Adam Hanieh on the 'green transition':
‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism
Many vital left-wing books about global oil politics have been published over the last decade: Mazen Labban’s Space, Oil and Capital, Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy, and Simon Pirani’s Burning Up...
canadiandimension.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"It’s unlikely that under capitalism we will see any genuine transition from fossil fuels. In this sense, the green transition is a myth. It’s not happening—and certainly not at the pace necessary to mitigate the worst case scenarios of the climate disaster."
Adam Hanieh on the 'green transition':
Adam Hanieh on the 'green transition':
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I loved having this conversation with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social at @prairielights.com this week, and love that it has another life here: open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...
“Art Is Pressurized By Endings”
Paul Lisicky on choosing your mentors, pushing against cynicism, & finitude in art
open.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I loved having this conversation with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social at @prairielights.com this week, and love that it has another life here: open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...
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“we came back from the oscars and every day since there is an attack on us,” adra told the associated press. “this might be their revenge on us for making the movie. it feels like a punishment.”
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army
Israeli settlers have beaten up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land."
apnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“we came back from the oscars and every day since there is an attack on us,” adra told the associated press. “this might be their revenge on us for making the movie. it feels like a punishment.”
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Meanwhile beauty. I love how everything, no matter how small or ethereal casts a shadow, the shadow of a flower is just as shadowy as the shadow of a gun, and if you love light then you should love shadows.
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Meanwhile beauty. I love how everything, no matter how small or ethereal casts a shadow, the shadow of a flower is just as shadowy as the shadow of a gun, and if you love light then you should love shadows.
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Tenure didn’t protect anyone at Columbia. Let this be a lesson in the need for labor solidarity across all ranks in higher ed.
March 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Tenure didn’t protect anyone at Columbia. Let this be a lesson in the need for labor solidarity across all ranks in higher ed.
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Sharing this again, in case you haven’t read it yet. It’s an essay I wrote, very explicit and very dear to me!
cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/f...
cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/f...
Featured Writing: “Soft” by Samuel Ernest
Who wants to be soft?-Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets Peter Paul Rubens “Seated Male Youth” [study for “Daniel in the Lion’s Den”] (ca. 1613), collection of the Morgan Lib…
cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sharing this again, in case you haven’t read it yet. It’s an essay I wrote, very explicit and very dear to me!
cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/f...
cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/f...
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Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...
Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers on It Too
You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...
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Now would be a great time for STEM, humanities, and social science academics to realize that they need to unite in defense of academic freedom and adequate researching and working conditions for all of us, irrespective of discipline.
March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now would be a great time for STEM, humanities, and social science academics to realize that they need to unite in defense of academic freedom and adequate researching and working conditions for all of us, irrespective of discipline.
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Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.”
Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
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RIP Marianne Faithfull. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Short Film by Derek Jarman) [1979]
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
RIP Marianne Faithfull. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...