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In the final post of this series, Megha Amrith asks what the future might look like for #migrant workers in Asia who have been abroad on precarious contracts over decades mmg.mpg.de/online-media/b… #ageing #bodies #labour Watch this space for Ageing in a Time of Mobility updates from the field!

At the end of 2018, I’m especially grateful to Alice Evans and Samuel Moyn 🔭 for tweets that have been consistently illuminating, entertaining, and insightful!

A wonderful essay by @kalramnath to begin the new year!

‘The landscape of contemporary South Asia was shaped by responses to the disastrous famines of the late nineteenth century,’ historian Sunil Amrith tells Kevin Gopal about his new book Unruly Waters - bigissuenorth.com/reading-room/2… Allen Lane

Today on LQ: An excerpt from “Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History” by Sunil Amrith, now out from Basic Books. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lan…

Breaking News: Scientists say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change nyti.ms/2D2mR8S

A very important esay by Chinmay Tumbe

Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful @PorterSqBooks on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!

Thank you Alice Evans!! I’m looking forward to it very much.

An extract from Unruly Waters in The Atlantic

PS. For anyone interested in the material in my The Atlantic piece, do check out the vital work of @ClimateChirper

Brilliant article on air pollution by @GabrielleHecht

At Jaipur for #JLF2019, looking forward to hearing many amazing writers! The Indian ed of Unruly Waters (Penguin India) will be launched here tomorrow.

A real privilege to be in discussion with Ornit Shani @ZEEJLF

This will be a highlight of #JLF2019

Thank you @PorterSqBooks for a lovely book event for Unruly Waters this evening, so glad to have such a wonderful independent bookstore on our doorstep!

"Even radical climate change action won’t save [Himalayan] glaciers, endangering 2 billion people." #water But there are some things we can do to fend off the worst....check out Chapter 10 on #airpollution...(which the The Guardian article doesn't mention). theguardian.com/environment/20…

"Unruly Waters" - my podcast with Sunil Amrith Harvard History On struggles to gain mastery over water, across Asia Narratives of nationhood, ideas of conquest, mega dams, activism, regulation & climate change.. (it's action-packed, Sunil is awesome) soundcloud.com/user-845572280…

It was so much fun to record a "Four Questions" podcast today with the wonderful @alice_evans