Kaustubh Naik
@kaustubh.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UPenn. Land, Law, and Language in colonial Goa (18th-20th c.)
My long pending rant about the settlers in Goa and their crisis of belonging. open.substack.com/pub/kaustubh...
How to Belong in Goa
And other crises of Aldona Filmmakers
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November 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My long pending rant about the settlers in Goa and their crisis of belonging. open.substack.com/pub/kaustubh...
Should go back to reading Aijaz Ahmad.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Should go back to reading Aijaz Ahmad.
The fuck we just returned midair to PHL because the aircraft had engine issues.
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The fuck we just returned midair to PHL because the aircraft had engine issues.
Where’s the Madison gossip at?
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Where’s the Madison gossip at?
The rw ecosystem has set up a fellowship in Jadunath Sarkar’s name to foster research and publishing in Indian history.
May 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The rw ecosystem has set up a fellowship in Jadunath Sarkar’s name to foster research and publishing in Indian history.
Reposted by Kaustubh Naik
R.I.P. Jayant Narlikar
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known…
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known…
R.I.P. Jayant Narlikar
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known for his work with Fred Hoyle on a conformal gravity theory and as an advocate of the Steady State theory of cosmology.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
R.I.P. Jayant Narlikar
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known…
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known…
TIL Teju Cole is married to a Goan.
May 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
TIL Teju Cole is married to a Goan.
This Sophia Qureshi optics is a trap that Indian Muslims, and Indian liberals should refrain from falling into. It has set unrealistic standards of acceptance for a community that is structurally persecuted on a daily basis.
May 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This Sophia Qureshi optics is a trap that Indian Muslims, and Indian liberals should refrain from falling into. It has set unrealistic standards of acceptance for a community that is structurally persecuted on a daily basis.
The absurdity of our times is so much that Raj Thackeray of all the people has a restrained response, refusing to participate in the ongoing war mongering, and has instead asked pertinent questions about internal security lapses.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The absurdity of our times is so much that Raj Thackeray of all the people has a restrained response, refusing to participate in the ongoing war mongering, and has instead asked pertinent questions about internal security lapses.
What has gotten into Indian liberals that they’ve turned into a war supporting mob overnight?
May 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
What has gotten into Indian liberals that they’ve turned into a war supporting mob overnight?
I am scared beyond measure for friends back in the university.
March 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I am scared beyond measure for friends back in the university.
I am not worried for Kamra as much as I am worried for the crew that put this show together.
March 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I am not worried for Kamra as much as I am worried for the crew that put this show together.
The federal funding that is at stake for Penn is mere 0.78% of its current endowment kitty. And yet they’ll crawl like babies in front of these two bullies that the university itself has produced.
March 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The federal funding that is at stake for Penn is mere 0.78% of its current endowment kitty. And yet they’ll crawl like babies in front of these two bullies that the university itself has produced.
Penn chose to crawl when asked to bend and yet their famous alumni has frozen their funding.
March 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Penn chose to crawl when asked to bend and yet their famous alumni has frozen their funding.
Chaava has unintentionally triggered a Brahmin Maratha feud in the Marathi public sphere.
March 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Chaava has unintentionally triggered a Brahmin Maratha feud in the Marathi public sphere.
At this point (and maybe I’m overthinking), I am not really sure if I’ll be let back in the country.
March 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
At this point (and maybe I’m overthinking), I am not really sure if I’ll be let back in the country.
The situation at the university keeps deteriorating—funding cuts, disappearing grants, random arrests, and more. It’s the worst environment for research, with the constant pressure of state interference looming overhead.
March 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The situation at the university keeps deteriorating—funding cuts, disappearing grants, random arrests, and more. It’s the worst environment for research, with the constant pressure of state interference looming overhead.
Gathered some courage and said no to an invite to do a lecture. You either die young or live long enough to be invited as a शिवव्याख्याता.
March 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Gathered some courage and said no to an invite to do a lecture. You either die young or live long enough to be invited as a शिवव्याख्याता.
Not Ravish Kumar asking Modi take a snake from Vantara and leave it in the White House as a response to Trump’s rant on tariffs.
March 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Not Ravish Kumar asking Modi take a snake from Vantara and leave it in the White House as a response to Trump’s rant on tariffs.
Good days for Maratha history in Goa. However it’s interesting how they are now being invoked. The Goa CM said it’s a falsehood that the entire Goa was under 450 years of Portuguese rule and in fact the new conquests were ruled by Shiv shahi.
February 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Good days for Maratha history in Goa. However it’s interesting how they are now being invoked. The Goa CM said it’s a falsehood that the entire Goa was under 450 years of Portuguese rule and in fact the new conquests were ruled by Shiv shahi.
Rest of UPenn should’ve disowned Wharton long time ago!
February 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Rest of UPenn should’ve disowned Wharton long time ago!
Whatever time remains at Penn looks so bleak and hopeless that I am wondering if all this was worth it. www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts
Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Whatever time remains at Penn looks so bleak and hopeless that I am wondering if all this was worth it. www.thedp.com/article/2025...
America has become a weird, complex trolley problem.
February 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
America has become a weird, complex trolley problem.
Hate that Beer Biceps will continue to have a career as a peddler of misinformation and bigotry but we have to do mental gymnastics to come up with nuanced takes on his freedom of speech.
February 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Hate that Beer Biceps will continue to have a career as a peddler of misinformation and bigotry but we have to do mental gymnastics to come up with nuanced takes on his freedom of speech.
Have zero clue about what Superbowl is but would’ve been nice to be in Philly last night.
February 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Have zero clue about what Superbowl is but would’ve been nice to be in Philly last night.