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When you are in Paris after giving an talk at Collège de France and your aunt arrives in Paris to give a talk at the OECD… we have dinner on a Paris rooftop and catch up Naila Kabeer

The best South Asian food in Paris is non-veg Tamil food in the Gare du Nord area! This is Muniyandi Vilas! I also like Dishny and if you want veg Sangeetha and Saravanna Bhavan are waiting too!

Eid Mubarak with Watalappan(m)! A sweet associated with Sri Lankan Muslim celebrations- a creolised Indian Ocean caramel flan made with eggs, jaggery coconut milk and spices- variations exist from Cape Town to the Malay world; basic idea probably introduced by Dutch/ Portuguese.

Reconfiguring Indian Ocean Studies and getting Transpacific in the U.K. with Meha Priyadarshini on the happy occasion of Nancy Um’s visit to the Sainsbury Research Unit (SRU) for the study of the arts and material culture of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at University of East Anglia!

My first academic prize! :-) small beginnings ;-) The prize was for excellence in translations from Old Norse Scaldic verse (one of my Oxford MPhil exam papers)

Do apply, U.K. based colleagues!

I am still thinking thoughts that were expressed in this book… Thank you Women Unlimited for being such a fabulous publisher

Excited to give this talk in the presence of N.S. Madhavan! There’s more to Kerala (and literature from Kerala) than the novels we have been teaching in English depts for the past two decades :-)

Fireworks, heated discussion, and the shining eyes of students listening with captive interest: what a wonderful afternoon at the venerable Kerala institution CMS College, Kottayam, speaking about N.S. Madhavan’s epic work, Litanies of Dutch Battery, in the presence of the author! 🙏🏼

In the lead up to 14th/15th August, and in the wake of revolution in Bangladesh, here’s my book that tracked the connections and divergences between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh between 1947 and 1971 (and before and beyond)

It was a pleasure to help bring together our diverse yet convergent approaches here. Rajiv Mohabir I spoke about Whale Aria, connecting it to whales in the work of Naiza Khan, John Akomfrah, and others.

Join us for an event on the history of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean at the V&A on October 11th! We will be launching Connecting Threads project website with a great line-up of speakers. Join us in London or online: vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZm3… vam.ac.uk/event/8dwdoL5w…

Postdoc at the Centre that saved my life! Sciences Po + the Cambridge-Harvard Joint Centre for History and Economics are offering a three-year fellowship starting September 1, 2025, in economic and environmental history. Apply if you fit the brief! Info: bit.ly/4cXWA9p

Omg I can’t wait for this to drop! Thank you David Scott and Small Axe for inviting me to Carolyn’s party! The essay is also my homage to the island of Jamaica!

I am thrilled to be hosting Amitav Ghosh at King's College London in November as the closing event of IATIO MSCA Project and the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture. Generously supported also by King's India Institute - spread the word, sign up, and join us!

It was amazing to host eminent prizewinning author Tan Twan Eng at King's College London with full house attendance by London’s Malaysian community! A rich discussion about Penang’s place in the Indian Ocean world and the writerly imagination. @penanginstitute @georgetownlit

Dear friends, I am co-editing a special issue of #PublicHumanities on the theme of Creole Gardens as Decolonial Practice. Want to join us? More information here cambridge.org/core/journals/…

honoured to host Amitav Ghosh at King's College London! 400 audience members heard him address the historical relationship between militarisation, climate change and the Indian Ocean world IATIO MSCA Project, King's Arts & Humanities Global Cultures Institute, King's India Institute kcl.ac.uk/news/climate-c…