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Amrita Ghosh

2 months

My book Kashmir’s Necropolis; Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts was reviewed at South Asian Review journal yesterday. So very grateful for a careful and meticulous review.

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Amrita Ghosh

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5 months

The India I love.

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Jamia nagar, New Delhi

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Amrita Ghosh

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10 months

Indian couple I met at a grocery store— They: Nice to meet you. We are new around. My husband has an IT job at X and I am a realtor. I: I am a prof n teach at the Univ. They: What subject? Me: English, literature and cultural studies. They: oh, why? (With a dismal look)

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Fakirchand Bookstore in Khan Market, Delhi India. Met the grand son of the owner who founded the store in Peshawar (Pakistan) in 1931 and then reestablished it in postPartioned india, in Delhi 1951. Bought a collection of narratives on Partition that narrates that story!

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1 year

Beautiful Calcutta. July 2023

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2 years

Of all the subversive Diwali and Kali puja images, this is my fav. Goddess Kali's feet squashing a tube of "Fair and Lovely" popular Indian skin lightening cream and exclaiming "Boye geche" in Bangla which I reckon has more bite than "Who cares". Loving it! #kalipuja2022

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

It’s here, it’s here!! So very grateful. Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 months

Teaching a course on Horror and Hauntings in South Asia and perhaps it is only fitting that I am getting papers that have my name written as Prof. Ghost 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Allow me to present some more spectacular scenes of Calcutta. Taken today at sunset. Princep Ghat, Calcutta 2023.

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

This has been an un-normative journey, but dreams come true. I will be joining Univ of Central Florida as Asst Professor for South Asian lit in the English Department in Fall 2022. Thank you for an incredible solidarity from colleagues and friends that I am eternally grateful for

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Amrita Ghosh

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5 years

Kareena Kapoor Khan introduces herself as KKK on a radio show she has recently started in India. Has history taken a farcical plunge and died along the way for an ilk of Indian celebrities? Shudder. Understatement.

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Amrita Ghosh

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9 months

My book is out soon. I am extremely indebted to scholars I learned from and for the support of people in this journey. For the people of Kashmir. LexingtonBooks, Rowman & Littlefield.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 month

Call for papers: "Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis" Annual South Asian Conference Jan 18-19, 2025 which I am excited to co-organize with my dear colleagues @ArnabDuttaRoy1 and @dasrajorshi . Deadline is September 1st.

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Whatever happens here, @GhoshAmitav once liked my post and due to @Twitter amplifications and solidarity my parents got oxygen in India and survived the Delta variant in 2021.

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

My parents sent me Alana Hunt’s Cups of Nun Chai in a package from India. The courier co called frm the airport to say it is banned to send this book out!!! And they have taken the book from with other things that the package contains. The state will tell me what I should read?!

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Amrita Ghosh

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5 months

So very excited to teach this new course first time this summer, and a longer slightly more theoretical one in fall on horror and postcolonial South Asia. We would be studying some fascinating writers/filmmakers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

I wrote this essay as a tribute to people who came together and saved my parents from dying of the Delta variant. The everyday was far more horrific and extraordinary than what I could depict. Do read. via @thepunchmag

On Shared Grief: A Pandemic Story

This has been a devastating time of collapse, yet also a stark reminder that our survival is acutely interweaved and connected with one another

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"While Hindi and English are called “Indian languages” in the country, Tamil is referred to as a “regional language”, that denotes an inferior status." Indian novel about caste becomes first Tamil work longlisted for International Booker prize

Indian novel about caste becomes first Tamil work longlisted for International Booker prize

Perumal Murugan, who said he had given up writing in 2015 after protests against one of his books, wins selection with Pyre

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

I sent an email saying, @My area of research is postcolonial tiramisu” (autocorrect somehow turned Literature to that). Please tell me I will still get accepted to the conference 😳

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 years

Curry powder is the most godawful thing on earth. And no it is NOT a part of indian cooking! I want to do a decolonizing cuisine series. Any takers?

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

I have to say it’s quite the shocker to be back in Sweden in a full blown pandemic, after 4 million dead worldwide and I almost lost my parents to it. Sitting in train, only 1 masked; nervous as some1 coughing and sneezing and no one in mask or bothered. I fail to understand...

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

Yes!! About time. Someone please create a tshirt with this.

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Amrita Ghosh

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10 months

Friends, you didn’t ask what I said 😉

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Orlando friends, close to UCF, can anyone help me find a shared room for a friend who arrived from Pakistan to do a PhD but lost everything in the Hurricane floods? Her apt is waist deep in water and she has lost everything. Please can anyone help find leads 🙏🏽

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Amrita Ghosh

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10 months

@christiwhittem :) thanks for asking: I said, I am going to be teacherly here and ask the need for that "why". Let us question where that why comes from-- and I laughed.

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4 years

The best thing that gives some solace today.

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Really Really special :) Somewhere in #Kolkata #PetRescue #Amphan

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

I don’t know who wants to hear this but: if you live and work in a country that is not your “own”, you may love the place AND retain a voice and NOT agree with everything and all things happening that reek of othering, xenophobia or scientific lunacy.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

“Reflecting on Said’s life, in short, is not only a chance to celebrate groundbreaking achievements. It is also an invitation to recognize, soberly, some of our era’s heartbreaking misfortunes.” The Lost Worlds of Edward Said Follow @newrepublic

The Lost Worlds of Edward Said

Amid the waning of the humanities, Said turned out to be one of the last literary scholars with a public presence.

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Here’s Ismat Chugtai giving some key advice! 🙂🔥

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“Chule mein dalo shaadi, independent bano!” 🔥🔥🔥 Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991) Epic Urdu feminist writer. Footage from the Prasar Bharati Archives. Thanks to thesingingsingh for sharing this on Instagram. 🙌🏾

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Reunited with parents today, 3 years after the pandemic; almost lost them in 2021 during Delta Covid's relentless phase in India. Shocked to see them so frail, father 30 pounds less, weak with long covid. Ma enduring in courage. Just grateful to have them around me today.

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1 year

Calcutta, you are beautiful! View from parents’ tonight.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Re reading Tagore’s Gora for class and damn, some of the lines are remarkably prescient about the present time: extreme Hinduism, caste divisions, society reform and gender politics! How far ahead of his times was the man.

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

My mother just got a call for oxygen being delivered at home in 30 mins. No words to express my gratitude to who did this. You all did. My deepest thanks. Tonight is covered because of you. @_AdilHussain @siddharthagigoo @tikulli @AdityaDubey2003 @notAgainNinad @praveenkhanna78

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Oh hello: folks retweeting my Calcutta house pic and saying I’m engaging in poverty porn, just FYI: it’s my home I took a photo of. Representation is always important, and I find my home beautiful. 😺

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

Oh hello! I have to teach maskless and in person when I get back to Sweden! Hallelujah

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

My cat just posed for me!

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 years

This happened to me and my colleague @historian_arun in Sweden. We wrote about the surname culture and what it means. Casteism continues to thrive among Indians abroad – through surnames #caste #surname #lastnames via @ScrollGlobal

Casteism continues to thrive among Indians abroad – through surnames

Most members of the diaspora believe they are anti-caste and progressive, and yet their caste identity remains important to them.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Several years ago I made this book cover painting. Announcing to twitterverse, if any of you are interested in book covers do tell me. I would love to do some cover art during summer months. (I don't ask for money for the covers, just credit!)

Subaltern Vision: A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text

“Ever since the Gramscian notion of the subaltern became the lynch-pin of the counter-hegemonic project developed by the Subaltern Studies group in the early 1980s, attempts to give voice to India’s...

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Today i learned from students that a thumbs up emoji is supposed to be hurtful and passive aggressive! Did you all know this?

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Amrita Ghosh

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26 days

The GhostPeppers are back. English prof band, we sing fusion in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Tagore songs. Many things lined up in the coming months, including an original and video release.

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2 months

“Not only do these publishers not pay us for our work; they then sell access to these journals to the very same universities and institutions that fund the research and editorial labour in the first place.”

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Amrita Ghosh

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9 months

The only ‘Animal’ film I support is where Sridevi becomes snake woman, Nagin and creates havoc ;)

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

In 2018, Toba Tek Singh was made into a short film starring Pankaj Kapur. Does anyone have any info on where to see this (in a legit way?) Any info on the film version of this would be very useful! Thanks

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

Caught the thunder storm on the Hudson! What a storm NY

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

My family reminded me I used to write letters in Bengali. This is how I wrote Bangla, in that delightful, cursive font. To those who sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue, In solidarity. #InternationalMotherLanguageDay

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1 year

“Haider and (Post)Colonial Hauntings.”

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Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job

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2 months

Important to remember that the Bangladeshi students are not protesting against the reservations for the minorities and other indigenous people in the system.

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what reactionary and casteist indians are intentionally missing out on is that Bangladeshi students are protesting for the removal of quotas for kins of freedom fighters (great-grandchildren), NOT the affirmative action already in place for ethnic minorities and disabled people.

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1 year

So very honored to have presented a talk for the 1st time in Calcutta on a new project I am working on: Chitmahals, borderlands and Bengali literature. ILSR Institute of Language Studies and Research, Govt of Education, W. Bengal. The welcome n dialogue were just unbelievable .

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

The excruciating heat, the tourist traps, the dizzy humidity all was worth it in front of this spectacular and ethereal vision. Was 8 years old the first time I visited with parents and then today. I’ll remember this sight unfolding in front of me.

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 months

Want to get a hold of this book so badly. This past semester my students loved Hyder's works in a Partition literature course.

The restless raconteur | Review of Qurratulain Hyder’s ‘At Home in India’, edited and translated by...

Qurratulain Hyder's essays and stories capture a diverse cast of characters in a vivid, complex fictional universe. Her new book, ‘At Home in India’, edited and translated by Fatima Rizvi and Sufia...

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Amrita Ghosh

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10 months

@christiwhittem hahaha, it didn't go on much after that. I was asked where I lived around, which to me was a question trying to discern class, context, status et al. So I gave a vague answer saying very close and said polite goodbyes.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Goodbye India, leaving today with a heavy heart. I am humbled with the incredible scholarship that is happening, met new scholars, connected with some unexpected people and excited for new pathways to come. So long… till I see you again, soon! ♥️

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Had the honor of singing Tagore song, “Purano Shei diner kotha” at the Bangladesh #InternationalMotherLanguageDay celebration at UCF campus. Met with an incredibly talented group of Bangladeshi students and diaspora artists. Thanks to UCF for this wonderful and important event.

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2 years

As I go to class to teach postcolonial theory to students, I was reminded of this interview with @GKBhambra from my postdoc years in Sweden. On Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies: An Interview with Gurminder K Bhambra — by Amrita Ghosh via @InverseJournal

On Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies: An Interview with Gurminder K Bhambra — by Amrita Ghosh |...

Postdoctoral researcher Amrita Ghosh interviews Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies (at University of Sussex) about the relevance of postcolonial and decolonial...

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

People in india suffering from Covid, who are making it during this time, it is *only* because of the colossal effort people have generated here and the kindness and generosity of people coming together. Speechless with people’s selflessness during this time.

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

Does it take a bit too much of sensitivity from person at a lamp store to treat me in the same way, as the Swedish person with me? Glum faced, no thanks, not a word spoken to hello, thanks so much, hejdå instantly to the next in turn Swedish customer. The difference was stark.

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Amrita Ghosh

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5 years

@Naa_Cheese Hahaha!! You go dude. Love it.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

Covid is back (and never left) with a bang folks. Please mask up. Many of my students are out with it and I am beginning to be worried …

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Amrita Ghosh

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8 years

May we empathize more this year... As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die of It #Climatechange

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Amrita Ghosh

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2 years

Hivemind, if you had to choose some anti colonial novels and short stories from South Asia, what would be your pick? Looking for less obvious texts. Have Tagore, Ahmed Ali in mind.

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

Thank you, Radical Books Collective @WARSCAPES This is one book I have been waiting to read by Abul Bashar, translated from the Bengali- a rich and complex collection on precarious lives of Muslim communities, and how mythologies and the land get absorbed into daily lives.

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Amrita Ghosh

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1 year

So excited to be a part of Mennello Museum Orlando Speaker Series and talk about Partition's Visual cultures and looking back at 75 years. Aug 25th, 6 pm. Orlando @MennelloMuseum #75yearsPartition

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2 years

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1 year

Wrapping up the semester with this brilliant book in my Partition course. A wonderful translation too!

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3 years

Before and after ... captions needed! (captured last night, zoom in to see the essay in question) 😸

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1 year

Another important work of translation. Can't wait to read this. "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras" by Mirza Ghalib via @BookReviewsAsia @Maazme

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

I am excited to join Brooklyn Institute of Social Research @BklynInstitute as Associate Faculty and teach a course in September (this is NY time, but EU and South Asia time zones and dates possible)

The Madwoman in the Attic: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, a “prequel” to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, tells the story of Antoinette Cosway, a young woman, from a “Creole” family of declining fortune, who’s made to marry Mr....

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

The day here today. Autumn in Sweden.

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 years

For the first time in my life I made Diwali sweets by myself and my transatlantic family is not there to share. Here’s some coconut laddu and pistachio barfis. Sharing with my neighbor. Happy Diwali folks. 🪔

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1 year

What a joke this has been for last 3 years in Sweden! More death ratio than most countries, people with long covid, children not vaccinated, masking is a hoax, and it’s Corona nationalism time! “We followed science”

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Three days after WHO declared the Pandemic I have a piece in @Telegraph on why we kept Swedish schools and preschools open.

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1 year

My teenage son texted me this morning about Audre Lorde and her definition of self care and asked a question about resistance. He is presenting in class today on the self care movement gone wrong, and citing @bhakti_shringa ‘s edited series- #DecolonizeSelfCare ! So exciting!

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 years

Here’s my #AcademicValentine Roses are Red Violets are Blue When you call your department decolonial Make sure you think of the praxis too!

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1 year

Writing a chapter on race and Bollywood and just mindboggled with the disturbing trajectory of anti blackness in post-independent Indian Hindi film industry from the 50s to the present time. Colonial legacies form only 1 part of the systemic structures of inclusion and exclusion.

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4 months

The memories of Partition in the contemporary imagination

The Hindu lists out books on the Partition of India

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2 years

Happiest day that I must mention beyond all the social media shake ups. Submitted book order for fall course: South Asian literature--Colonialism and Conflict Zones. So very excited!! Everything I ever wanted to teach is happening. so grateful.

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4 years

Seeing posts and messages for saving Bengal, specifying ONE bengal, all of it, beyond divides. Tugged at my heart. My grandfather who died at 103 still nostalgic for East Bengal, would have been happy today despite the crisis. #SaveBengal

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4 years

Contributing first time to the #InternationalPoetryCircle organized by the wonderful @TaraSkurtu . One of my fav poems by Mary Oliver, In BlackWater Woods. This is dedicated to Marx.

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3 years

I hope no one will stop me from teaching in a mask in a classroom of thirty students during a pandemic even if the state has decided the pandemic is over!

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4 years

3 weeks ago, 4 of us did a @sasnet panel on doing some inner work on racism in the indian diaspora and Indian cultural industries. @fdu_press has sent us a contract today for a polemic book on Imagining Imperial Formations: India’s Culture Industries, by us. Coming soon in 2021

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3 months

I love that Chomsky refuses to die.

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10 months

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman on Twitter in possession of a tongue, must be trolled by a man questioning her veracity 🙃

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4 years

“I don’t think we can afford the luxury of pessimism... when I saw those young people out in the streets in the pandemic, with their masks on, spaced apart, announcing to the world that racism is a bad thing, it was inspiring and uplifting”

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2 years

"Coloniality survives colonialism" Nelson Malnodado-Torres

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6 years

@TBlackford3 I am deeply sad after your posts. I have a son and I cannot even understand what to say. Please know we are thinking of you. You are an amazingly strong person

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2 years

What freedom of expression rights is this that allows burning of Quran in Sweden? I really don’t get it. At the cost of being trolled again and be told “leave if you don’t like it” I will say it: this is no freedom of expression! It’s hatred.

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This is important for all of us, to read, to reflect and to envision what kind of a nation we want for us. Indian Muslims are silent over Tabrez Ansari because of Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ThePrint via @ThePrintIndia

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4 years

In my postcolonial theory class today on zoom, I had a female student presenting on subalternity from a moving car in Bangladesh!

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4 years

"Kolkata is the birthplace of Indian Chinese food, which traces back to Hakka Chinese traders who settled in the city in the late 1700s, when it was the capital of the British empire in India."

How Indian Chinese Food Became India's Favorite Cuisine

The cuisine, which originated in Kolkata, is an Indian interpretation of Chinese food.

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4 years

“Because of their grudging inclusion in professional and academic spaces, Adivasis and Dalits face silent social exclusion. Since the present atmosphere breeds politics of hate, an overt articulation of caste-based discrimination has become rampant.”

Jadavpur University professor trolled over tribal status

She had made a remark on Facebook that holding exams are not important during the pandemic

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3 years

Mom can bake a cake and solve it too! 😸 For once my boy is stumped by his birthday cake.

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Amrita Ghosh

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3 years

I am getting trolled for critiquing the maskless policy of Sweden, so I have been blocking people and for the time being protecting my tweets. This is outrageous but also goes to show the lunacy around Covid “scientific truths”

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Amrita Ghosh

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4 years

@drmousumi ‘s family in Calcutta sent this video of the cyclone. Calcutta has lost electricity in many parts of the city and I cannot even imagine where the people in not so sheltered places have taken cover during a pandemic. 2020 need some respite. #AmphanSuperCyclone

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2 years

Shaking off negativity from my twitter tonight with some cat shield. Pingpong and Belle, my best friends to the rescue

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2 years

Sara Suleri. My grad school days were transformed after reading your works. RIP.

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3 years

Look who I bumped into in New York today! @bhakti_shringa !!

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2 years

I'm reminded of something funny that I need to share. Few years ago I tried surprising my parents by turning at the door after flying internationally on a long flight. I rang the bell, mom opened the door n I expected crying. She uttered: "Hello, you look like my daughter"! 🙃

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Amrita Ghosh

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10 months

@tabbPlomaritas Perhaps read the last few decades of professional, caste and class history of India and the dominant immigration ethos?

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@doctorpoco

3 years

The book cover is here!! So excited to see this in our hands soon. The cover sketch was done by British born artist with roots in Nigeria and India, Soniya Amrit Patel

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Amrita Ghosh

@doctorpoco

4 years

A grad student new to postcolonial theory wrote to me: “this week’s readings and your lecture really shed light on many things for me. It has literally impacted how I view myself and the world. For the first time I have a lens through which I see things”

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