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It was a pleasure meeting everyone!!

Excited to announce that I’ve been appointed as a Trustee at the National Library of Wales starting Jan 2025! Such an honour and such a beautiful way to stay connected with Aberystwyth ♥️

Kaafi muskuraaya because we were at Raheem’s! Would do anything to eat that flaky kulcha again 😍

Started a Postdoctoral Fellowship at DPU, Aarhus Universitet in Copenhagen this week! 🎉 Our research project is titled “Moral Economies of Schooling in Nepal” and I’ll be spending time on the India-Nepal border conducting fieldwork in education anthropology soon. Lmk if you are around!

Air India customers being driven to innovation under the threat of boredom thanks to no working TVs on the flight

Thank you for featuring my research this month South Asian Studies! basas.org.uk/gec-researcher…

We're thrilled to announce the Bhashavaad searchable database of Indian translations, with New India Foundation, inviting you to interact with, make use of, and contribute to it! Now live: bhashavaad.in!

Thank you so much for featuring my work :)

Speaking at this exciting symposium next month about my favourite topic!

📣 Join our symposium for a thought-provoking panel with Lúcia Collischonn, Marta Dziurosz, Mohini Gupta (she/her) and Barbara Ivančić, as they challenge the idea of translating only into one's 'mother tongue.' Learn more and register here: uea.ac.uk/groups-and-cen…

Excited to hold the copies of our new Raj #savesoil volume “Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia” - edited by Uma Pradhan and me! It has some incredible contributions on the politics of language education in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

It’s a big day in the world of literature - many congratulations to Vinod Kumar Shukla for the much deserved Jnanpith Award! So delighted to see his brilliance recognised 🎉

Book Reveal! Presenting AfterWord's first publication: 'Kabir: Walking with the Word'. This translation of Kabir’s poetry into 11 Indian languages has been edited by Sanchit Toor (Sanchit Toor ) with design and illustration by unnicessarily .

Throwback to the memorable launch of Afterword's first publication 'Kabir: Walking with the Word', edited by Sanchit Toor. Honored to have it launched at Bhashavad, National Translation Conference, a unique celebration of Indian languages by Ashoka Centre for Translation and New India Foundation

Can there be a Muslim, Urdu-writing Vinod Kumar Shukla ever? One where each story is just about average Zahids, Asads, Fatimas and Asmas who go about the usual humdrum of every day life, where stories are not forced to confront endless social evils. Where Muslims can just be.