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Taanya Kapoor

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5 months

Women as subjects without a sexualised POV, just living, feeling, being will always be my favourite form of art.

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5 months

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

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Ended up going to the @iihsin library in Bangalore a few days ago. I know I *shouldn't* be surprised, but the fact that I could just enter, sit and start working in an air-conditioned, comfortable, well-lit space without paying A DIME caught me completely off guard. (1/4)

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7 months

Remember reading his autobiography and I was floored with the dedication to his wife in the acknowledgments! To love and to be loved like that is a treasure ♥️

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7 months

Me and who

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Taanya Kapoor

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1 year

Would anyone here be interested in starting or joining a book club where we discuss books by women, on women, gender, sexuality and related? Fiction, non fiction, part academic or entirely philosophy everything welcome! The idea of discussing books read earlier could work too?

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Taanya Kapoor

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8 months

Netflix has released this absolute gem!!! Highly, highly recommended if you haven’t watched it yet. Shah is great but Jaideep Ahlawat’s acting is beyond beautiful here, portraying a kind, tender man who has a capacity to love and feel his emotions. 11/10 must watch. ❤️

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8 months

Now streaming on Netflix!

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Taanya Kapoor

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2 months

Can’t keep calm because it’s A WHOLE YEAR since we started the Women & Gender Book Club, out of a serendipitous viral tweet, strangers’ generosity and so much love! Sharing a list of the books we read this past year- if you would like to join, DM me or email wgbookclub2023 @gmail !

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Taanya Kapoor

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8 months

The gift that keeps on giving. Was gifted a subscription to a local bookstore for my birthday, where they send a curated selection of two surprise reads,bookmarks & postcards each month. The joy of unwrapping and getting excited each time doesn’t fade. Little things ❤️

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Taanya Kapoor

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2 months

Currently reading a laugh-out-loud book that is so surprisingly original and stereotype defying, it made me rethink my own ageist biases. Erotic stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaiswal. What a fun read!Quoted below, words of wisdom from a 80 yr old widow to a youngster😂

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8 months

Good day to remember what is supposed to anchor us as a nation. #ReclaimTheConstitution The joy of little things that mean a lot. Spread the joy:

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7 months

The idea of a public library is a treasure that runs so contrary to the notion of monetizing every single thing that a capitalist world normalises, that its existence itself feels revolutionary. A library is not a charity act. It is an expression of a fundamental belief (3/4)

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Taanya Kapoor

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So gratifyingly happy to have received such brilliant (100+!) recommendations on books around the theme of home/belonging- understood in so many different ways. Sharing a list of reccos, biased towards South Asian partition/diaspora lit but featuring many others. Enjoy! ♥️♥️

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 month

#BookTwitter Now seeking recommendations for our August 2024 read for the @WGBookClub2023 with the theme Home/Belonging :) Seeking recommendations for books around the subject, particularly South Asian partition and migration/diaspora literature. Fic/Nonfic welcome :)

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7 months

that every one has a right to public spaces. That a right to knowledge is a human right. How did we move so far away from this kind of a world view? Call me an idealist, but this small incident made me feel hope. An alternative world is possible- if only we envision it. (4/4)

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10 months

Made me think of how we all love to love love but don’t like to admit it. Most days, hate is what gets people going, especially on social media platforms like Twitter. But to see love embraced and celebrated so wholly, unapologetically is truly beautiful ❤️

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10 months

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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Taanya Kapoor

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7 months

It's not like I haven't visited libraries all my life or enjoyed them, but it had been SO long since I visited a *truly* public library, where I didn't need to even be a member, buy a coffee, pay anything to just *sit and read* that the I had forgotten what that feels like! (2/4)

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9 months

“Grief without ritual can be bewildering…Ritual helps you cope. The bother of abiding by it is also a form of suffering- it can ease the guilt.” Words like a punch to the gut. In a world where we are taught to suppress feelings always, room for processing is powerful.

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1 year

Don’t remember the last time I read a book in one sitting, first thing in the morning because I just couldn’t stop. Tears, anger, despair, hope- a rollercoaster of emotions while reading what felt like a diary that confesses things we are taught to forget everyday. MUST READ!!!

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Taanya Kapoor

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6 months

It really is high time the dictionary found a word for describing the death of a friendship. It's not fair that the pain of losing a friend is ranker lower than heartbreak. Wrote a random little something today, thinking of an old friend. Don't share usually- so be nice, please?

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Taanya Kapoor

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17 days

Found perhaps my most favourite shop in Oxford today- Scriptum. A book store, stationery shop and magical world that felt like stepping into a different world. I could literally spend hours here!! A thread of pictures 🧵

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Taanya Kapoor

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10 months

Remember watching the ‘Great Indian Kitchen’ and going through so many emotions- especially anger that housework is invisibilized so easily in society. The teaser for the Hindi remake looks so promising!! Highly recommend watching the original on Prime if you haven’t.

CinemaRare

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10 months

Teaser out now:

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9 months

So many memories, so many feelings. So much sadness at what remains and what has been lost.

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9 months

To be loved, always — JNU 🌸

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9 months

And in her 30s,40s,50s and foreverrrr

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9 months

this is how a sunday should be spent by a girl in her 20s

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6 months

2024 is 20 years to the release of Veer Zaara. Still two years away from when Veer got out of jail and was reunited with his love. This is what Zaara looks like today- vs what the movie imagined. Can you blame Veer? 😂 Good day to revisit a favourite ♥️

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11 months

Today’s achievement: assembling a cheap, sturdy, DIY study desk for myself, alone and in 90 minutes. Made me so happy and proud of myself lol. Now if only I could use the desk for its actual purpose and get some studying done! 😂📚📚 #phdlife

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Taanya Kapoor

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7 months

New book picked up: Miwok Kawasaki, Breasts and Eggs. A book long on my TBR shelf, a story of intergenerational conversations between three women, their relationship with their bodies, anxieties and hopes for the future. Hoping that it is worth the anticipation! #BookTwitter

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Taanya Kapoor

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1 year

Loitering is a privilege men don’t see as one..

Langda Tyagi

@nalayaktragedy2

1 year

Raat ko sheher ghoomna kitna accha lagta hai men will never understand why we get so happy and sentimental about it

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Taanya Kapoor

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1 year

Adding a book that I personally enjoyed very much on the subject of becoming a “man” in “New India”. @ShannonKPhilip ‘s excellent, incisive ethnographic work on the changing meanings of masculinity and its interconnectedness with patriarchal norms is a must read!!

Shannon Philip

@ShannonKPhilip

3 years

Although one should not judge a book by its cover, I'm delighted to share mine... Many thanks to @CambridgeUP and @qudsiya_Ah

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8 months

One of those reminders of all the things good writing can make you feel. Picked up Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book, Roman Stories, and surprised by how familiar yet newly enchanting her work always is. In recent memory both whereabouts & this have evoked strong feelings. Recommended!❤️

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Taanya Kapoor

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10 months

Just finished watching “My SO has got depression”- a Japanese movie about a couple fighting the disease together, overcoming shame, and finding ways to support each other through grief. So tender despite its simplicity- and so powerful in its message. (1/6)

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Taanya Kapoor

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5 months

📢📢Announcing the Women&Gender Book Club picks for April 2024 on the theme of gender & caste. Join us as discuss Hansda Shekhar's "The Adivasi Will not Dance", in conversation with Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi" this month 📅April 28, 2024 ⏰5 pm IST, online on Zoom DM to join!

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Taanya Kapoor

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9 months

Sharing a small collection of books I recently purchased that I’m extremely excited to read in the coming year- some old, some new. Might be of interest to the Gender Book Club members!

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Taanya Kapoor

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1 year

For a fantastic read on how complex cultural norms intersect with women’s tendencies to not take their health seriously, especially with lifelong lifestyle diseases like diabetes, #RecommendedRead for today: Sugar and Tension by Leslie Weaver. Insightful, rich ethnographic work!

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 year

Worrying but unsurprising trends. As a nation we need to take this rising disease burden much more seriously esp considering the long term impacts of Diabetes. Also imp to think about disproportionate gendered burdens on women who suffer acutely by placing their health last.

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8 months

A day to remember an old favourite. Stellar verses by Amrita Pritam. Linking here a favourite being read out in Gulzar’s voice: Main Tenu Fir Milaangi (I will meet you again)

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6 months

You know the dreaded moment when as a researcher you find that the book you wanted to write has already been published by someone else? Today years old when I realised SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR wrote a 4-part autobiography, the first of which is basically my entire PhD thesis??!🤯🤯🤯

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6 months

Anyone else remember the time when class 10 board exams were a mystifying creature, an unknown behemoth to be tackled in a war-like situation? Whenever I want to feel inspired to work hard for my PhD, I try to summon whatever form of sincerity I had back then... (1/5)

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8 months

Currently reading “Yaari”- a heartwarming collection of stories, reflections, thoughts and anecdotes woven together through the theme of female friendships. The book is like a hot cup of cocoa on a wintry night, enveloping you in its warmth. Smiling through it all as I read. ❤️

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2 months

Happiness is seeing a riot of colours on your way to college or when you go to grab a cup of coffee ♥️♥️♥️ little things! #Oxford

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1 year

What a beautiful review of an engaging & non-judgmental analysis of single women in India! Highly recommend reading Sarah Lamb’s excellent ethnographic work discussing specific cultural conundrums for single unmarried women in India & changing ideas of care. Thankyou @chowkhani

Ketaki Chowkhani, PhD

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1 year

My review of Prof Sarah Lamb's fab book 'Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility' is out in the Journal of Anthropology and Aging!

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11 months

📣📣📣*BOOK OF THE MONTH: NOV 2023*- Join as we read INVISIBLE WOMEN by Caroline Perez together for the Women and Gender Book Club! 📚Invisible Women, Caroline Perez 🗓️November 19 ⏰11.30 AM BST/5 pm IST 🏡 ONLINE, on Zoom DM for more details or email WGBookClub2023 @gmail

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Taanya Kapoor

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5 months

So disgusted that I’m short of words. A mixture of incel culture, violent fantasies, objectifying & demeaning women to the sum of their orifices- literally. The larger question is how did we reach here? To have this big a chasm? For men to want to re-assert their power like this?

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Ai women are women.

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10 months

A couple of days ago watched this gem on the recommendation of a friend- Astitva, starring Tabu. The movie released in 2000, but tbh felt time-agnostic. What bowled me over was the clear, unashamed articulation of a married woman’s desire for intimacy, handled so maturely. (1/6)

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12 days

Really excited to be presenting a chapter from my thesis on the contradictions of marriage and good daughterhood in India. If you’re going to be there, say hi or drop a comment and would love to meet up ♥️♥️

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King's India Institute is delighted to host the annual @BASASofficial conference on September 9, 10 & 11, 2024. Over 200 scholars from South Asia will present their research. Find out more below:

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4 months

Nothing makes me happier than learning about adults who got into hobbies and pursued them, enjoyed them and became amazing at them for their own sake at a time when anything not monetized is considered a waste! So inspiring ♥️

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I started oil painting at 35. I’m 39 now…

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1 year

No one told me *this* is how beautiful spring was going to be in Oxford. Dear Wordsworth, I only have time to stand and stare these days!! <3

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8 months

Today years old when I realised that the cover of 'Pinjar' by Amrita Pritam I picked up has a self-portrait of Deepti Naval?? What in the multiverse of amazingness! She also played Pritam in a play when she started theatre decades after being a film actress! Love it! ♥️

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1 month

Brilliant quotes in the replies here. Reposting for everyone’s benefit. My current favourite? “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”- Oscar Wilde

Edie Wyatt

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2 months

What’s your favourite feminist quote?

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6 months

Yes yes #HappyWomensDay - a commercial bonanza where all women will be reminded how strong they are (as if they have a choice) and be sold cosmetics, washing powder and dishwasher soap in the name of “empowerment” while gender equality is 286 years away. Congratulations to us.

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6 months

📣📣📣THRILLED to announce our next book club meeting, where celebrated author Volga joins us to discuss her seminal work “The Liberation of Sita” 📆March 31, Sunday 🕰️5 pm 🏠Online on Zoom DM to join the book club/attend this meeting. Emails to follow soon!

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1 year

Finding bits of Delhi in Oxford- the time when Amaltas would be in full bloom back home :)

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11 months

Have always maintained that a lot of success in PhD applications abroad is about having more information about the system. Paying it forward by partnering with @ProjEduAccess as a panellist on a workshop demystifying PhD applications in the UK! Details-

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Taanya Kapoor

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10 months

📢Hoping to have an amazing discussion on this thought provoking book- Invisible Women by Caroline Perez, as part of the November Book Club discussion, 12 pm BST/5.30 pm IST, online on Zoom The discussion is free and open to all- DM or email WGBookclub2023 @gmail .com for the link

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1 year

If you haven't yet had the chance, highly, highly recommend watching the malayalam movie The Great Indian Kitchen on the subject of food and gendered violence. Eye opening to the banality of everyday evil.

The Great Indian Kitchen - Indian Malayalam Full Movie [4K] | Suraj...

Post her marriage, a woman tries to fit into the conventional mould that society has prescribed for married women. But somewhere along the way, she starts fe...

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8 months

🎉🎉Happy New Year people! Really pleased to announce “The Day I Became a Runner” as the book of the month for 2024 to start the year! 📆 28 Jan 2024 ⏰5 pm IST 🏠Online, on Zoom Come join as we read a book celebrating women’ strength, sport & spirit ❤️ DM for details!

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1 year

**Call for Abstracts** South Asia Day Workshop at @ODID_QEH ♦️Theme: The Many Lives of Money: Exploring Familial, Social, Political Relationships in South Asia 📅Date: 06 June, 2023 🏠Department of International Development 📌Deadline: May 20, 2023 Details attached!

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4 months

So we could have a future different from our mothers, and grandmothers, and all those women who live their lives vicariously through us. This theft needs to end

Shambhavi Sharma

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Remember the struggle for the 8 hour working day! Fight to end the theft of our time!

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📣📣BOOK SELECTION- FEBRUARY 2024 In the month of love, who better to discuss than the king who rules our hearts?💖💕💕 THRILLED to announce “Desperately Seeking Shahrukh” by @BShrayana as our book of the month. 📆 February 25, 2024 🕰️ 5 pm IST 🏠Online on Zoom DM to join!

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2 months

Couldn't help but put up a new poster because of how excited I am about our panel discussion and author meet this Sunday!!! Come join us as we have the fabulous editors and authors of Yaari and Why Loiter join us to discuss all things love, friendship and resistance!

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11 months

📢📢**Call for participants- ONLINE FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION** If you are interested in contributing to my DPhil project, JOIN as we discuss changing eldercare practices and evolving role of daughters within the family in MC India- Online on Zoom, this SUNDAY, Oct 29, 5 pm IST

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1 year

📢📢BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT FOR JULY!!!! ❓What: Women and Gender Book Club Event 📚Book: All About Love, by bell hooks 📅Date: Sunday, July 9, 2023 ⏲️Time: 11.30 am BST/4 pm IST 🏠Venue: ONLINE on Zoom! **DM for details or fill the pinned google form!

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 year

JULY Book Club Reading: All About Love- by bell hooks! Join us as we ponder all things love with this searing treatise- discussing not only the place of love in today's world but also its politics, gendered burdens, and the notion of love as an ethic for life. DM for details

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5 months

This place will never cease to surprise me. Outside my library today, free copies of Kafka’s writing to publicise an event. Come in, pick & leave. Someone rightly said, those who read don't steal, and those who steal don’t read. So much to gain from spreading the joy instead! ♥️

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Oxford at night- a thing of beauty. Long walks will definitely remain one of my favourite things about Oxford always :) ♥️

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#BookTwitter Now seeking recommendations for our August 2024 read for the @WGBookClub2023 with the theme Home/Belonging :) Seeking recommendations for books around the subject, particularly South Asian partition and migration/diaspora literature. Fic/Nonfic welcome :)

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Elated to announce our book of the month for July 2024- Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar, translated by Jerry Pinto! Come join us as we read this beautiful work on the 28th of July, 2024, 5-7 pm IST online on Zoom, hopefully in conversation with the authors! For more details, DM!

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

2 months

BOOK SHORTLIST- July 2024, Pride theme!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈⚧️♥️ A little late to the party, but celebrating July at the @WGBookClub2023 by reading works featuring LGBTQIA+ stories & authors! Here is the list of our 11** shortlisted books! Voting by members currently underway, results tomorrow

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The flowers are beginning to blossom, the sun shining a bit brighter, the air slightly crisper. Doesn’t matter how many times I see it, the turn of weather and newly blooming flowers will always enthral me. Love is always in the little things. #oxford

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So excited to see a trailer featuring such stunning women- who are NOT talking only about men! The movie surely passes the Bedchel test, and here's hoping it's a treat for viewers as well! Love to see it <3

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10 months

When I was ten, I remember DEVOURING all of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers books, pleading with my mom to send me to a boarding school just like Darrel Rivers. While I never went, pictures like these remind me of those faraway, beautiful dreams of a school nestled in the mountains❤️

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St Joseph’s, Nainital

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1 year

Thinking of putting out information/discussion threads and/or conducting an online session on demystifying the PhD application process for global south students, especially to the UK. Any interest? Side note: Follow @ProjEduAccess @EklavyaFoundat2 @BahujanEcon for helpful leads!!

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11 months

“The right to abort is a right given to doctors, not to women in India.”

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My article in the Times of India on the Supreme Court’s refusal to permit abortion, and the glib assertion that the Indian legal position on this is a liberal, pro-choice one. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Someone pinch me, it's real! Out live- in conversation with @BShrayana on all things books, romance and Shahrukh Khan. Here's to new beginnings!🥂🥂 More to follow soon!

Shrayana Bhattacharya- Desperately Seeking Shahrukh | Conversation...

In conversation with Shrayana Bhattacharya, author of the bestselling book "Desperately Seeking Shahrukh"! Members of the Women & Gender Book Club ask Shraya...

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Happiness is redeeming an Oxford University Press voucher because you participated in a library survey, which allows you to buy ANYTHING you want from their collection. PLUS they throw in a children’s classic as a gift. So much childish joy!! 🎁 Thankyou @OUPAcademic ♥️♥️

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From @Rukmini 's wonderful new database: fantastic, easily accessible read on Women & Work in India:

Women and work in India

Many women are out of India's paid workforce. But they're working - just not in the same ways as men.

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8 months

Little corners of happiness ❤️

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1 year

@kusheshweta I'm doing a thesis on daughterhood among upper classes in India and you summed up what pretty much every respondent had to say.

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1 year

📢📢📢EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! 💷💷💷 Thanks to the generosity of IndOx @india_oxford , we are now offering bursaries towards covering travel within the UK and/or one-day accommodation to selected participants if needed! 📌Send in your abstracts by May 20th 2023! @ODID_QEH

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 year

**Call for Abstracts** South Asia Day Workshop at @ODID_QEH ♦️Theme: The Many Lives of Money: Exploring Familial, Social, Political Relationships in South Asia 📅Date: 06 June, 2023 🏠Department of International Development 📌Deadline: May 20, 2023 Details attached!

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Words encapsulating the unsaid truths of academia. How does one reconcile the smallness of their project with the expectation that each project be field changing? & If each project is such, what coherence does the field entail anyway? #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

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@madame_noworry

7 months

I wrote this about US academia's obsession with newness and innovation in humanities scholarship.

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

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Pretty blossoms sighting on the way to the department. Way more stunning in real life than the photos! Spring is here 🌺🌺🌺

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Taanya Kapoor

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Only in #Oxford can you see a pair of Penny Farthings unironically parked by the side of the road. This town is amusing to say the least. Ps. Don’t miss the velvet hat! #Oxford #OxfordLove #Oxforddiaries

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Taanya Kapoor

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1 year

Just sent out an email to everyone on the Women and Gender Book Club reading list for book selections for the month of August. Join as we read South Asian Partition Literature celebrating stories of women during Partition, written by women. Really looking forward to this one!

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

6 months

Now reading: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider. Collection of writings. Blown away by ‘the transformation of silence’ speech. “I was going to die, if not sooner then later. Whether or not I have ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 year

SELECTED!! Dear all, very happy to report that after a tremendous response to the shortlist of books for next month's reading club, popular vote has chosen bell hook's 'All About Love' as the book we will read together next month, July 9! (1/n)

All About Love Quotes by bell hooks

654 quotes from All About Love: New Visions: ‘When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commi...

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

6 months

Reading Sara Ahmed’s work and ‘Complaint’ and ‘Kill Joy Feminist resonated so deeply with the idea that women take up too much space to exist, & their legitimate voicing of disaffection with how they are treated is often seen as ’s to owning being a killjoy

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Taanya Kapoor

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9 months

Just started reading ‘The Day I became a Runner’ this morning, in an effort to pick up something to read rather than scroll my phone first thing in the morning. Blown away in the first 4 pages. The intensity of emotions expressed in the simplest words is astounding.

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Taanya Kapoor

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10 months

In the midst of so much overwhelming and crowding the senses, was still feeling lonely. Found company ironically in the solitary act of reading a second hand book, with scribbles on its margins- almost like a conversation with someone, sharing thoughts as read together. ❤️

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

6 months

Really looking forward to the screening of our documentary ‘No Country for Women’ as part of the @TheGendVProject being held at @AshokaUniv today

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

5 months

On a day when JNU has come out yet again, as the highest ranked Indian university in global ratings, good day to remember what it has gone through in the last decade, and continues to, even today. I can only wish for a better education for those who don’t see its value.♥️ #JNU

Outlook India

@Outlookindia

5 months

There have been concerted attempts to portray JNU in a certain way. The film JNU: Jahangir National University is just another product of the same propaganda machinery, writes Iqbal Abhimanyu. #JNU #Propaganda

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Got a picture of my gift from far away- another month, another new set of surprise books from @ChampacaBooks , this time on the theme of “Stage”. The distance from these books does not erode the pleasure of receiving them! ♥️

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

4 months

Season of the favourite colour is here. Will never tire of purple and how astonishing it is on flowers all around here! Much happiness in silly things 💜💜💜

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

10 months

Just finished watching 'Three of Us' starring Shefali Shah. What a stunning, beautifully evocative movie. Slow, nostalgic & an ode to the complexity of human emotions. Shah was great as usual but the star of the show was Ahlawat for me. Stunner. Watch it♥️

Three of Us (2022) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

2 months

If this beautiful book cover doesn't make you want to pick up this book right away, I don't know what will. What a treasure this book is- so glad that it finally got a second print run! @arpitayodapress Thank you! We would absolutely love it if you joined us in our event today!

KK

@KhushiK62873042

2 months

Thanks a lot dear @readingish @arpitayodapress for making this happen. Indebted to @Taanya_K for a warm community and congratulations on completing a year of our @WGBookClub2023 💞 Too eager to read this one.

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Taanya Kapoor

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Little wins in life: am able to read 60% of this with accuracy given my baby steps learning Urdu. Disproportionately proud of myself, lol. (FWIW, it’s a tough language okay?) On that happy note, Eid Mubarak! 🌙 ✨

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

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Will always be a fellow petitioner for the cause!! ♥️

Javeriyah

@Javeriyahs

15 days

petition to bring back the era of hand written letters

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Taanya Kapoor

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7 months

Picked up something I’d been wanting to for years. Learning to read & write a new language- one I’ve admired for its calligraphic beauty for decades. Made me deliriously happy to join a @UniofOxford introductory course last year, & trying to continue with @rekhtalearning now :)

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

10 months

For someone struggling with immense time blindness in the midst of an unstructured PhD life, is my yearly ritual of buying TOO MANY planners a form of ‘cruel optimism’ (Berlant 2011)? 😂 {sorry about the sad inside joke!} #phdchat #PhD #AcademicTwitter #academia

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Taanya Kapoor

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10 months

Suddenly a room of one's own makes even more sense? <3

Valentine 🪲☕

@moth_val

1 year

Constantly thinking about Virginia Woolf's house

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Taanya Kapoor

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SO THRILLED to announce that for the first time, the @WGBookClub2023 will have a PANEL of authors joining us for our book discussion! Profs Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, Nithila Kanagasabai will join us for a Q&A and informal chat to discuss the fabulous books @whyloiter & #Yaari !

Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

3 months

JUNE 30, 2024 Why Loiter & Yaari Women and Gender Book Club Meet Online on Zoom See you!

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Taanya Kapoor

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Had such a brilliant session on “The Liberation of Sita” in conversation with the author, Volga ma’am. Such profound insights, warmth and wisdom from her. Felt like an Intergenerational transfer of love and light, inspiration for fighting the good fight. So grateful for it! ♥️

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

1 year

Currently reading Partition Literature, the horrors of carnage, communalism and bloodlust, one of the most striking aspects is how easily one can switch loyalties, how simply turn from friend to foe. And how most often, men’s battles are played out on the body of women. #Pinjar

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

2 months

Finally getting around to posting all the lovely conversations we have had as part of @WGBookClub2023 - From March 2024, Liberation of Sita by Volga- in conversation with the author, who made us feel so loved and encouraged, reminding us of the strong shoulders on which we stand!

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

4 months

📢📢SO happy to announce our new pick for the Women and Gender Book Club May read- "The Last Courtesan" by Manish Gaekwad Our first memoir read- Open for all. DM for more! Details: 📅Sunday, May 26, 2024 ⏲️5 pm IST 🏘️Online on Zoom Hoping to have @manishgaekwad join us as well❤️

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Taanya Kapoor

@Taanya_K

7 months

BEYOND EXCITED that we may actually have @BShrayana join us for our little book club chat!!! Absolutely loved her interview with @amitvarma on the ‘loneliness of the Indian woman’ and I CAN.NOT.KEEP.CALM that we may get to chat with her and discuss all things Shahrukh!!❤️❤️❤️

Shrayana B

@BShrayana

7 months

I'll try and join if office and deadlines permit it :) thanks for the invite @Taanya_K

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