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1/ Pollock's model of South Asian language history, which privileges the written form, blinds us to the creation of literature outside writing and by extension, their creators (the class, caste

One of the highlights of my teaching career was teaching Cabral (who paved the liberation of FOUR countries), including his moving tribute to Mondlane in which he thinks through what

“electrical engineer turned environmentalist” ranted against (mostly female) Indian historians, using h-index scores on Google Scholar as “evidence” since he should be considered a better historian as his score was

My introduction to US literature was “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I read it soon after my family lived in Namibia, where my dad was one of the first Indian diplomats

1/ Apologies in advance for a monster thread but I recently had a check-in with my doctoral students and I thought I'd share the gist of that conversation in the