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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

5 months

Getting ready for #FENS2024 in Vienna! Come to my poster PS03-27AM-477 - Distinct and asymmetric neuronal responses to pitch-axis and roll-axis vestibular stimulation in larval zebrafish - on Thursday, 27 June (09h00-13h00) to find out what happens in the brain of an animal ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Saw a tweet on the feed going 'vegetarians, are you okay with friends having non-veg food on same table or house party?' & of course the thousands of likes & QTs are from Indians. This problem of things 'touching' is a unique to India, coming from casteism, & is so frustrating.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

So, a friend told me that flares (the distress signal thing) are called Bengali Fires in German (Bengalisches Feuer), French (Feu de Bengale), Swedish (Bengalisk eld) or just Bengal (Bengala) in Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc, because apparently it was used in Bengal? TIL.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Don't ask me how, but I happened to discover a newspaper published in French from 19th century Chandernagor in Bengal, called «Le Petit Bengali», with English wishes for Christmas, the very important «Dourga poudjah» dates, and French names of Bengali students! Joyeux Noël!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Did a single science organisation or influential scientist in India come out speaking against the (un)reliability, not to mention murky ethics, of narcoanalysis & polygraph tests? I am not even expecting anything against casteism or sexual violence. But this is our 'field', no?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

The 'demographic threat' is a well known Islamophobic canard. In Assam, it's Islamophobia mixed up with xenophobia as well. Politics on policing how many children someone can have, is disgusting and increasingly common.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

10 months

Still ogles the mind that a Sri Lankan citizen or a Dutch national of Surinamese-Indian origin up to 6 generations are all eligible for an Overseas Citizen of India card but not descendants up to 3 generations of anyone who's ever been a citizen of Bangladesh or Pakistan.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

I swear if I see one more person, even in good faith, asking not to politicise cremation, death, etc, I'm going to lose it. Politicising the sh*t out of it can get results. Show the burning pyres on front pages of newspapers. Open the casket like Emmett Till's mother. Please.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

It's a pandemic, I haven't been productive, but read, replicated experiments, overpromised, underdelivered, with lots of anxiety and failures. But today is my first day as a PhD student. It wasn't very easy getting here. I'm happy & grateful, & hope to show that through my work.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

I keep talking about language policies in India and Hindi imposition ad nauseum. Rarely have I been as infuriated about this, as today. This is about the Kozhikode plane crash. Part XVII, Constitution of India, should self-immolate. I am outraged.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

With all the destruction happening in Israel & Palestine right now for the entire world to see (once again), I'm also seething at groups of people, so-called progressives, who claimed the situation in Assam is comparable, with the Bengali being the colonialist. How, even?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 months

No Indian polity will invest in teaching languages to adult white-collar immigrants, but will propose the most xenophobic ethnonationalists laws you have ever heard of to compensate for their incompetence. Spare me with 'you don't know how North Indians behave in the South.'

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Not a day passes without seeing someone normalise the ethnonationalism in Assam. Woke up to me & a friend being abused in Hindi - we're responsible for all the illegal migration in Mumbai, there would never have been Bengalis in Nagaon (Assam) without 'settler colonialism', ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

Never forget that the Partition of Bengal is an ongoing affair. Of course there are less & less people alive with ties on both sides, but they still exist. Of all faiths. An 'Indo-Bangladesh' passport is still valid (ceases to be valid this year, new ones not issued since 2013).

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

6 months

Indian citizens, stop it with the 'I vote so that I can exercise my right to complain'. That's not where rights come from. They don't come from paying taxes, or voting, or being an exemplary human being, etc. Unless one is actively disenfranchised, they come from just existing.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

They tried to make 'vegetarian only' tables at my hostel in IIT Kanpur once, someone randomly put a sign on one of the mess tables & the elected Hall President made sure it was removed. It exists in other hostels of IITK though. The situation is worse down south, IISc, IITM, etc.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

@swatiatrest I just looked up my MSc thesis and found this line. « The Student Glass Room of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing, AI3102, has also been with me through thick and thin, which of course might be due to the fact that it is a room with no semblance of free will. »

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

These two ducks just finished an exhausting day of courses and research at the Jussieu campus of Sorbonne Université and left, just like me, at 19h00.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

I have more vegetarian friends by proportion in my entourage in Switzerland & France than I ever had in India, and this question has of course never risen.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

5 months

Should go without saying - any regional nationalism in India (Assamese, Odia, Marathi, Kannadiga, Tamil, etc.) will hurt Bengalis the most. Bengalis may think that such nationalisms will target other communities like Biharis, or Hindi-speakers, or « North Indians » or just ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

9 months

Long live the Hakka people who came to Calcutta, and happy lunar new year! Egg hakka čaumin, and dry čili čiken!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

7 years

A packed hall listened to Mikhail Gromov quote Nassim Nicholas Taleb as "If you hear a 'prominent' economist using the word 'equilibrium' or 'normal distribution', just put a rat down his shirt"

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

I'll be honest, what I find very attractive to this day of Satyajit Ray's work is his graphic œuvre. His illustrations made a lasting impression on me growing up as they were all around (ক্ষীরের পুতুল, আম আঁটির ভেঁপু). His literature (which I've grown out of) & movies came later.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

I remembered today how in Kanpur, when I was for the first time a minority meat-eater among Indian vegetarians, I asked what my compatriots usually ate, and they'd go 'rājmā, kaḍhi, panīr' and I'm like 'but where are the vegetables?!'. I thought vegetarians would eat vegetables.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 months

When the eldest Bengali daughter of the family decides to open a French restaurant, she names it ... Le Borromée

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Happy birthday to DD Kosambi, polymath who I deeply respect, right from the time a Professor introduced me to him, back in IIT Kanpur. As a scientist myself, with amateur interests in history, socialism, language, and numismatics, I remain deeply impressed.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

As you read these horrifying stories, remember how it all starts - amendment of citizenship laws, registers of citizens, repeal of jus soli, jus sanguinis *but* with an ethnicity & time clause, dehumanisation, creation of a 'second class citizen'. Myanmar, Sri Lanka, now India.

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4 years

The #Rohingya are not citizens of Bangladesh, neither have they ever wanted to be. They are however, citizens of #Myanmar , which history attests and the junta denies. To use the powerless as a bargaining chip is, sadly, characteristic of the Kingdom.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

5 years

I'm finally beginning to register the fact that I've been offered a PhD position! Feels good. Been a while. Thanks for the help from everyone involved.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Watching a Netflix documentary on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that established jus soli citizenship in the USA and its states, and thinking of how jus soli was systematically destroyed in India due to the efforts of one single violent xenophobic pressure group.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

9 months

8 years ago, Amit Mukerjee, my IIT Kanpur teacher who was a major influence on me studying neuroscience, met with an accident. Yesterday, he passed away. Wish he was here to see me get a PhD in neuroscience, learn French, collect book excerpts, etc. Thanks for everything, Sær.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, killed by the state of science directed by State and Union governments, 41 years ago, on this day. His PhD thesis from @EdinburghUni is digitised here :

The Paperclip

@Paperclip_In

2 years

#OTD in 1981, Namita Mukhopadhyay went home from school to find her husband's body hanging inside their fifth-floor apartment on Southern Avenue, Calcutta. A chilling thread on Ek Doctor Ki Maut. 1/11

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

The bedrock of modern civilisation is finally on sale in Paris! That too with two jets - pulse & moussant.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

I really don't expect anyone who doesn't read Bengali or knows the history of caste politics in Bengal, to talk well about Meghnad Saha & casteism. I'm seriously not blaming anyone, Saha himself wrote more in Bengali than English on this. Learning a new language isn't easy, ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Has someone done a thread on the once existing train lines between present India and Bangladesh (and Pakistan too while we're at it). Photos of timetables from Sealdah station keep popping up : showing trains like the Assam Mail, Barisal Express, Chittagong Express, etc.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

The amount of pseudoscientific products in French pharmacies continues to amaze me. Today, at the pharmacy, I saw a prominent display of 'lithotherapeutic stones' like ... turquoise.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Flying to India tomorrow. Haven't been back for 1054 days, ~3 years. What a couple of years it has been. Still pretty anxious about this long international flight, hoping I have all the required precautions during these times of COVID19.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

10 days to Lisbon, where I spend 8 days in an intense workshop, then off to India (after 3 years) where I spend at least 2 intense weeks till mid December, and then try to work from home and finally be back in January 2022. Time is passing too quickly for my taste.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

I was honestly surprised that Britain never saw 40ºC before today (take care), which now sort of makes sense given, in India, they built whole-arse cities in the hills - calling them 'hill stations' (a very Indian English term), to escape from cities in the plains during summer.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

The Wife made me an amigurumi whale friend to take with me to my lab! 🥹🥹

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

#CycloneAmphan Thread 1/ West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Odisha have been severely affected by a super cyclone. 80 people have died as of now, and millions have been left without food, clean water, electricity or a roof over their heads. I urge one and all to help in this hour.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

5 years

Seems it's grad-school-joining-announcements time! I'll be moving to 🇫🇷, to join a PhD program at the Laboratoire Jean Perrin, @Sorbonne_Univ_ , funded by @EU_H2020 🇪🇺 ( @zenith_etn )! Thanks to all who've helped me towards my dream of becoming a scientist! I won't disappoint!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 months

Was a great poster session, and I know I already look exhausted here, but #FENS2024 has been very enriching. And yes, my poster is tilted as the topic is ... tilting.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

10 months

@AdrianoAguzzi @yaksi_emre Students (not PhD researchers or postdocs, who are not affected by this law in the UK) from non-EU/EFTA countries (on a student B permit) are not allowed to bring family members in Switzerland last I checked.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Probably going to regret tweeting this. Academics : I agree colonialism is horrible, we should accept this, decolonise our curricula, etc. Also academics : Happy to be declared Member/Commander of the Order of the British Empire. «changes Twitter name to add MBE/CBE»

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

Tell me something, those of you in academia & especially if you speak Bengali, do you sometimes refer to your workplace as an 'office'? Parents are adamant that an office is for a ... 'real job' and I should call it a laboratory or, as they insist, 'class'. It's almost funny.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

Self-care Sunday. Yes, I bought too many plants, and yes that's a proper Sunday Bengali lunch. Needed it after the excruciating torture of yesterday and general mental health.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

To celebrate the Formation of West Bengal is to celebrate Partition. Noöne with even an iota of historical knowledge about Bengal would dare celebrate it. Yet, appointed Governors of the States dare do so, in WB, in Jharkhand. Maybe this is the future. History ceases to exist.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

It's old school type secularism but I feel this story should be circulated. Yesterday my parents reminisced about a couple they know - their Firoj Kaku & Gayatri Kakima, now in their 80s, old school CPI(M) members who went about carrying their marriage certificates with them ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

যার পার্টির লোকেরা বাংলার মানুষকে, বাংলাভাষী মানুষকে, কলকাতা, মেদিনীপুর, মুর্শিদাবাদ, মালদার মানুষকে "বিদেশী, বাংলাদেশী, রোহিঙ্গা" বলে তাদের উপর অত্যাচার এক প্রকার সমর্থনই করেছে, তার আবার কার্টসি কল। কী হাসি! বাংলার মুখ্যমন্ত্রী আবার তাকে নমস্কার করছেন। লালকেল্লার লোভ বড় লোভ।

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | ��র্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

Stays in India : gets called settler colonial Bangladeshi Stays in the West : gets called settler colonial 'non-Western' এত décolonisation রাখব কোথায়?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

I am extremely happy today that I've finally constructed a corner of my own chez nous! Looking forward to decorating it more and having plants and all!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

5 months

... target Muslims. Bengalis may think it might help foster Bengali nationalism, but should remember that no other community apart from Bengalis will be accused of being a foreign immigrant (Bangladeshi) in India. Politics of Bengalis in India should always keep this in mind.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

5 months

I think I'll post one of these Bengali memes I made after buying a nice Bengali font, totally unrelated to anything.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

মা finally got her final « দাবাই ভী অর কড়াই ভী » shot today (😍) and I still can't stop laughing and crying at how the Government of India couldn't get one sentence right in the second-most spoken language in the country after Hindi, and basically just transliterated the Hindi.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

An examiner at a Paris university has asked a student to 'go to Afghanistan' for wearing a headscarf, a minister is panicking as kids in Nice played a game involving 'Islamic prayers' & lawmakers rejected a call for a moment of silence for the dead in Greece. Just a day in 🇫🇷.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Wish the TMC Supremo would tell her party workers to not congregate in high numbers, they've won. The pandemic is getting worse by the hour in West Bengal. *sigh*

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Since I'm seeing many of these comments, don't respond to this with 'haha meat eaters should ostracise vegetarians', I know it's not just as bad, but like defeats the purpose somewhat. Where are you getting your logic lessons from? Bangla Pokkho?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Today, my 85 year old grandmother in Bengal who's been almost bedridden for >1 year, for whom we've been worried sick during this pandemic, managed to walk unaided, talk to me, & say that ... she's going to vote for আমাদের মেয়ে, when officials come to record her vote in 10 days.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

As I said before too, stripping of citizenship is a unique kind of violence. Denaturalisation is stripping the rights to even be a criminal and be judged by whatever law that applies. Bengalis in India are being threatened with it, forced to commit suicide, etc.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

People's views on languages in India are often wrong - e.g. how widely Hindi is spoken in WB or English is understood in urban India is overestimated. I just now read a terrible FP article on Goa claiming 'Many still speak Portuguese at home, and most can understand it.'

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

6 months

We really need to develop ways to record & transmit smells. Parents sent video of the rains in Bengal with the beautifully dangerous sounds and videos of thunder and lightning and torrential showers, and I could *almost* smell the video ( #multisensory magic), but not quite.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

9 months

The funniest thing about the racial profiling I've faced here is that I have receipts! When I applied for my first titre de séjour, Sorbonne asked me to fill up a 'police ETR form'. They didn't ask my wife though. Turns out they profiled me as Algerian! Is it the name «Sharbat»?

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

9 months

@sandeepbak For us as well (wife & I), considering the extreme bureaucratic hassles (especially compared to other European countries) and the number of times I've been racially profiled here by security, police & administration, our desire to continue living here diminishes every day.

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@sharbat_c

1 year

Happy birthday, Nazrul. I am so happy that you lost your senses in 1942 so that you didn't have to see Partition, didn't have to realise that you're dying alone in a 'foreign country' without your children by your side, denied a burial beside your wife in Churulia, West Bengal.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

This nationalism-fuelled who-can-claim-whom is just too powerful, I feel. If repeated enough, if taught over generations, it gets drilled in. A Burdwan-born Calcutta boy, Nazrul, can be buried in Dhaka as the national poet of a State he is mentally unable to comprehend. *sigh*

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

As a tribute to the feats that @neuromatch academy was able to pull off, I'm posting a Persian translation (by A. Pashaei) of Tagore's poem. Here's to the hope of a future where knowledge is free and the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

This will become even more common as time passes. « ... periodic police sweeps looking for ‘illegal Bangladeshi immigrants’ often targeted Muslims and made every Bengali migrant feel that they are not Indian »

A Bengali Hindu family’s struggle to prove their Indian identity to Bengaluru cops

It had barely been a month since Palash Adhikary, a resident of Burdwan district of West Bengal, had resettled on the outskirts of Bengaluru along with his wife

www.thenewsminute.com

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

How am I supposed to not feel alienated? First capitalism, then this xenophobia, a 'Supreme Court' that sanctions it all. Hell, I feel more accepted in England and France. At least citizenship is sacred on paper in France. Isn't *that* better, courtesy Sarkozy and his ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

@rxyxrxy Read about Ajit Das, Joydev Ghosh, Banesa Begam, Sita Ree, & lakhs of others. They are Bengali, Rajbongshi, Gurkha, Hindi-speaking, Odia. Hindu, Muslim, neither. They are everything, but not indigenous, and hence liable to be dehumanised. Listen to their voices, and then decide.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

Very happy with how the food turned out (courtesy moi, @anirudhpammi , & @ManviTweeteth ), coq au vin, stuffed champignons, focaccia, & marble cake! I'm especially happy with the coq au vin! 😋🎄🥰

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@sharbat_c

3 years

... the Bengalis don't 'integrate' in Assam by learning to speak Assamese, etc. Double whammy for the Bengali Muslims, they're either 'Bangladeshis' or not Bengali enough in West Bengal & Assam. My partner when renewing her passport in Kolkata, noticed ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

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Is this supposed to mean something in a script I don't know of, or is it just a design element? Seen on the walls of a small riverside temple in Serampore.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

THIS! I tried to keep quiet about it, but the Indian Marriage Scenario is a mess, whatever be your personal experience. The Scenario was, and remains, a flashpoint of violence, steeped in patriarchy, sexism, classism, casteism, and all ills that you can think of.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

The Kosambi Reading and Analysis Circle, which I joined sometime back, came up with a logo, selected via a FPTP vote based on universal suffrage among members. Looks pretty good! Read more about the circle here : , and contact me or @Anupam_Guha to join!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Informative thread!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

I just have to express my frustration at the platforming of hardcore supporters of the Sangh, rabid Islamophobes, ethnonationalists, et al, in the name of anti-caste & progressive politics. I see you all, who're amplifying these wretched voices, including some I didn't expect to.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

6 years

I'll be joining @AkramiLab at @SWC_Neuro , @ucl , as a Research Assistant in January 2019. Extremely excited to be joining the lab, and moving to London! Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way, and also Twitter, where I first saw the ad!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

2 years

My wife's physiotherapist in Basel prescribed ... homeopathic arnica for some foot pain. Bengali uncles 🤝 Swiss millenials What is *wrong* with you, Switzerland (& France, to be honest)?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

... as that accusation won't lead to a probable questioning of their nationality, a probable legal limbo leading to concentration camps or deportation (to where, nobody knows). I won't lie, it enrages me every single moment. So few people who are not Bengalis are getting it ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

... such states, commit such violence. And I'm supposed to be thankful, 'patriotic', think how I'll regret doing what I want to do - get rid of my Indian citizenship and acquire another one, by thinking how even the French state has its own kind of violence. But f*ck all of this.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

Tackling vaccine hesitancy. People in India are less vaccine hesitant than people in most Western nations. South Asia (specifically India and even more so Bangladesh) is the least vaccine hesitant region in the world.

Deepti Empathy Madam Sharma دِپتی شرما

@cowbai

3 years

Okay tell me things India actually does better than the West as of today. Not historical origins of things. Keep your Vedic nationalism to yourself. Health spray is definitely up there.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

9 months

Itching to 'correct' American English spellings to British/Indian English spellings in a manuscript co-authored with the boss. I'll refrain as I'm not the main author but when I write the paper(s) from my main PhD project, I swear on the graves of Wren & Martin, I'll avenge you.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

10 months

@madhurarrao « expat »

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

TIL that Dutch nationals of Surinamese origin can apply for an OCI card (Overseas Citizen of India) if they prove, via the Surinamese Government, that their ancestors, upto the 6th generation, were of Indian origin. Meanwhile, ...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

I love the excellent visualisation made by @aryaman2020 of the languages of India (2011 Census). There's a lot about language politics (photos denote HINDI vs Hindi), but one can also find vestiges of things like the East Bengal refugee resettlement.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 months

Amazing. Must cause historians to want to end their lives. This is right out there with the Fort William Command Museum in Calcutta which displayed the fictional logo of the East India Trading Company from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as the real East India Company one.

Vinay Kumar

@bahudari

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The curator has simply googled Biswarup Bose, one of the artists who illustrated our Constitution, and used the first image from the results. Upon complaining, the assistant curator promised that it will be changed by the time I visit next. More 👇🏾

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

1 year

I really just can't with the disrespect of time in India, at all. Imagine agreeing to meet somewhere, then them arriving *2 hours* late and pretending like nothing happened. Yeah, sure, I've become Westernised.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 months

Came to know of him from the names of martyrs etched on a plaque inside the Jussieu campus of Sorbonne Université. Access to the site is difficult if you don't know where to look. M. Madhavan at 4th column from the left, 4th name from the top. Photograph taken by me today.

Junius

@piebyfour

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Ever heard about Michilotte Madhavan, a Malayali and the only Indian to be executed by the Nazis? Madhavan was only 28 when he was executed by the Nazi Firing Squad. Here's a thread on the inspiring story of this forgotten Indian hero.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

Thread! Just started Richard Eaton's 'India in the Persianate Age' and I'll share some tidbits! The introduction is a critique of traditional divisions of Indian history using religion & presents it as being at the crossroads of two transregional worlds - Sanskrit & Persianate.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

This was 5 years ago today! My friends and I dressed up in weird ways and did a photoshoot at the Rajeev Motwani building with random snippets from our undergrad life written out in chalk behind us.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

I'm leaving London in 40 hours. I'll try and tweet a few things about London in this thread in the next 40 hours. Pictured : Sunset, looking on to the Palace of Westminster from Westminster Bridge, taken by me on Christmas Day, 2019.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

4 years

It's this strange man's birthday. I say strange because such an Anglophile I doubt ever existed even back in the day, and yet his œuvre in Bengali is formidable. I really like the poem he composed for his grave - দাঁড়াও পথিক-বর! জন্ম যদি তব বঙ্গে! তিষ্ট ক্ষণকাল!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

3 years

So, I was a bit sad today at work, and was not being able to focus on the brain I was going to look at (zebrafish larval brain). So instead, I looked for and found this beautiful beating heart through our light sheet microscope. Such is life. Beautiful, isn't it?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

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This was meant to imply that fighting any nationalism with another is always a terrible solution and will always result in subsumption of the weaker or smaller under the more effective, larger, popular one, or lead to the popularity of reactionary forces within the smaller one.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

@sharbat_c

8 months

This is probably the last thing I think about nowadays (I've given up), but honestly, it annoys me when the Govt. of India works (often, just) in Hindi. I strongly believe this battle is lost in India, though, especially among the elite and the political class in Bengal. Anyway.

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