Here’s my review of Hurt Sentiments by ⁦Neeti Nair⁩ Thanks ⁦American Historical Association⁩ for the invite. This is a book you can’t miss. Neeti Nair. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia. | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

My essay in Financial Times How decades-long power struggle between Iran and Israel ended in war — and what the outcome would mean for the Middle East and the world. ft.com/content/858b35…

"Mamdani is the only one I have heard so movingly acknowledge the emotional toll that the real and imagined threats of antisemitism have been taking on Jewish New Yorkers. I wonder how many people can hear him through all the din." M. Gessen nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opi…

From the Gurdwaras to the streets of Richmond Hill, this final Sunday was filled with energy and gratitude. I began this campaign visiting the Sikh Cultural Society and Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center and I’m proud to end it alongside this community.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, Zohran Kwame Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won My latest for ⁦⁦The Guardian⁩! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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I met Prof Naim only once, decades ago, and we corresponded once or twice. I will continue to assign his essays in the hope that students will learn from his quiet wisdom - on the partition, on memory, on Urdu, on belonging. RIP

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Out today, 20 July: Believer’s Dilemma—the second volume of my study on Vajpayee and the Hindu Right. Now available at bookshops! (Most of them are happy to ship across lands and oceans.) Please do share it with friends or family who might be interested in something like this.

We invite you to a book discussion symposium on: Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia. Panelists: Prof. Neeti Nair Prof. Vidhu Verma Dr. Amir Ali Event Details: Date: 4th Aug, 2025 Time: 3- 5PM Venue: Committee Room, School of Arts and Aesthetics-2, JNU

Thank you for hosting the conversation on Hurt Sentiments, JNU Academic. I enjoyed the interaction very much.

Went for a great talk by Prof Neeti Nair yesterday and got my copies of her fabulous books signed: 1. Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India 2. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia Read:

Legendary historian Professor Rajat Kanta Ray has passed away. He was born in 1946. His father, Kumud Kanta Ray, was the Home Secretary of West Bengal in the 1960s. He did his BA (Honours) in History at Presidency College, where he was a student of Ashin Dasgupta. He did his PhD

Really well-curated reading list, tbf.

#books #history #politics #diplomacy #memoir #poetry #reading

#OPINION | India’s finest political thinkers didn’t envisage a centralised state or narrow provincialism, writes Sugata Bose. santwanabhattacharya newindianexpress.com/opinions/2025/…

Now published: kashmirtimes.com/opinion/commen…

great set of papers sharing new work on migration and militarization in/across India's borderlands. read and share! congrats to all authors and especially salah punathil.

Banned Phones in college classrooms #teaching #attention #focus #learning #education nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opi…