Siddhartha Dhar
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Siddhartha Dhar
@siddharthadhar.bsky.social
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I made a video essay explaining why, in my view, Israel is committing genocide under international law. I hope this helps frame the issue a little bit better and explain why there is a consensus among academics that this is indeed a genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmCl...
Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?
YouTube video by Alonso Gurmendi
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
'either cancelled or “lectured”, as Eyal Weizman put it, “by the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators who murdered our families and who now dare to tell us that we are antisemitic”.'

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Important reminder that the idea of India as a 5000-years-old civilisation is an orientalist trope first conceived in orientalist British historiography, only to be later picked up and championed by both secular Indian nationalists and Hindutva zealots.
What a Beauty! I'm delighted to share the cover for my forthcoming book on Indian history... all of it.

5,000 years, dozens of languages and cultures, 1 author. Coming from @princetonupress.bsky.social to wherever you buy books on June 3, 2025.

Preorder: princeton.press/8r8idcye
January 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Dec. 6, 2024 marks 32 years after the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, a dark day for India. And so I reshare this piece on more recent developments at the site, from late 2019:

caravanmagazine.in/religion/ayo... #Ayodhya #BabriMasjid #Hindutva #injustice
The Ayodhya verdict is a cornerstone of the Hindu Rashtra
The judgment does a poor job of grappling with historical evidence, often making assertions that echo broader Hindutva strategies for subverting history.
caravanmagazine.in
December 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I wrote for Netra News on what post-uprising Bangladesh can do to improve interfaith relations and defeat the scourge of communalism.
netra.news/2024/beyond-...
Beyond the optics
Symbolic majoritarian gestures is a public relations win, but neither deters nor resolves communalism. Interfaith dynamics in post-uprising Bangladesh needs to be better.
netra.news
November 18, 2024 at 2:38 PM