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I just got an email from one of my students from Turkey. "These photos were trending as someone dressed as a Dervish withstood pepper spray violence from police. Interesting to see Sufism in such an important political movement, and I wanted to share it with you :)

Thank you so much, Antonym magazine for this lovely note!

Happy to share the launch of this publication "Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures" at Upenn! I've an essay with a title "The Rise of a Muslim Voice in Literature" in this volume edited by Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar!

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The one and only - Baba Ambedkar!

Happy to share that I will be returning to this long pending work with a presentation tomorrow at the Islam conference at UPenn. I will be presenting at 10:30 am. Thank you, Davesh Soneji bhai and looking forward to many old/new friends!

Another book is here—

Happy that I will be there on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University this weekend! Really enjoyed last year's conference and conversations at the MSU and so delighted that I will be meeting this cheerful group of scholars and experts!

The day starts on this beautiful note from afar! I love this so much particularly when Oxford University Press is now actively pushing the title into South Asian market! - a latest response to the South Asian edition of the title "The Festival of Pirs"

Happy to have some poetry time on 21st. Thank you so much, Gopal Lahiri, Nabanita Sengupta and Madhumita Mazumdar for this opportunity! Looking forward!

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Just heard from the Oxford University Press that this book is now on their bestsellers! On the first day of Muharram today, this news makes me go back to my field research experiences in South India. Here's the time to recall the memories of the martyrs of Karbala!