Dr Sanjukta Basu, PhD
@sanjuktabasu.bsky.social
Journalist, Researcher, Communication Specialist. PhD in Women's Studies. Research areas: Women, gender, politics, digital public space, trolling, right wing trolls. Author, Photographer. TED Fellow, TEDx Speaker. Founder, Feminist Alliance Trust, NGO.
My trip to Atlanta, Georgia for the TEDNext Conference 2024 was truly an experience of a life time not just because it was my first visit to USA but also because I reconnected with my @TEDFellows community after 15 years or so. I got the TED Fellowship in 2009 for my blogging and digital activism.
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My trip to Atlanta, Georgia for the TEDNext Conference 2024 was truly an experience of a life time not just because it was my first visit to USA but also because I reconnected with my @TEDFellows community after 15 years or so. I got the TED Fellowship in 2009 for my blogging and digital activism.
What the hell happening to Harvard University? Can Trump really do that? Can he stop a university from hiring foreign students?
May 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What the hell happening to Harvard University? Can Trump really do that? Can he stop a university from hiring foreign students?
I am delighted to announce the launch of the first ever People Against Patriarchy Summit.
One of India's rare platforms which brings feminists and men's rights activists on the same table for meaningful, uncomfortable and thought provoking conversations.
Register at thepapsummit.com/register/
One of India's rare platforms which brings feminists and men's rights activists on the same table for meaningful, uncomfortable and thought provoking conversations.
Register at thepapsummit.com/register/
Register for PAP Summit | Join the Conversation on Gender & Society
Secure your spot at the PAP Summit! Register now to engage in critical discussions on patriarchy, gender inequality, workplace diversity, and more. Be part of the change!
thepapsummit.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I am delighted to announce the launch of the first ever People Against Patriarchy Summit.
One of India's rare platforms which brings feminists and men's rights activists on the same table for meaningful, uncomfortable and thought provoking conversations.
Register at thepapsummit.com/register/
One of India's rare platforms which brings feminists and men's rights activists on the same table for meaningful, uncomfortable and thought provoking conversations.
Register at thepapsummit.com/register/
My recent publication, a research based deep dive on gendered misinformation disinformation in India. Produced as part of The Full Picture Campaign by the @apc.org and Our Voices, Our Futures (OVOF) and published by @thewire.in m.thewire.in/article/arti...
@globalvoices.org @ethanz.bsky.social
@globalvoices.org @ethanz.bsky.social
What Has Gender Got to Do With Misinformation?
Despite a rapid rise in its threat perception, the discourse around mis/disinformation, both in media and academic texts, remains surprisingly narrow.
m.thewire.in
March 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My recent publication, a research based deep dive on gendered misinformation disinformation in India. Produced as part of The Full Picture Campaign by the @apc.org and Our Voices, Our Futures (OVOF) and published by @thewire.in m.thewire.in/article/arti...
@globalvoices.org @ethanz.bsky.social
@globalvoices.org @ethanz.bsky.social
In Women News India, a 5-year-old girl child was brutally raped by a 17-year-old boy. The victim was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood. She is now fighting for her life after undergoing live-saving treatment including 28 stitches in her private parts.
womennews.in/madhya-prade...
womennews.in/madhya-prade...
Madhya Pradesh: 5-year-old Girl Child Brutally Raped by 17-year-old boy, Victim Fighting for Life After 28 Stiches - Women and Gender News
5-year-old girl child violently raped, battling for life. Jokes offend us but child rape does not, no nation-wide outrage.
womennews.in
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In Women News India, a 5-year-old girl child was brutally raped by a 17-year-old boy. The victim was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood. She is now fighting for her life after undergoing live-saving treatment including 28 stitches in her private parts.
womennews.in/madhya-prade...
womennews.in/madhya-prade...
Full on verbal war between Zelensky, Trump and JD Vance. This is like a bunch of school boys fighting. It's both scary and funny.
At this rate there will be a third world war.
youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?...
At this rate there will be a third world war.
youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?...
BREAKING: Trump tells Zelenskyy he's 'gambling with World War III' in tense exchange
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Full on verbal war between Zelensky, Trump and JD Vance. This is like a bunch of school boys fighting. It's both scary and funny.
At this rate there will be a third world war.
youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?...
At this rate there will be a third world war.
youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?...
I read this book on why and how did modernist artists in Germany support the Nazi regime even while many were persecuted. Key reasons:
⏺️Opportunism
⏺️Self-importance (thinking art won't survive without them so they must "adjust" with Hitler's "needs"),
⏺️Survival mechanism
⏺️Real support for Nazism
⏺️Opportunism
⏺️Self-importance (thinking art won't survive without them so they must "adjust" with Hitler's "needs"),
⏺️Survival mechanism
⏺️Real support for Nazism
February 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I read this book on why and how did modernist artists in Germany support the Nazi regime even while many were persecuted. Key reasons:
⏺️Opportunism
⏺️Self-importance (thinking art won't survive without them so they must "adjust" with Hitler's "needs"),
⏺️Survival mechanism
⏺️Real support for Nazism
⏺️Opportunism
⏺️Self-importance (thinking art won't survive without them so they must "adjust" with Hitler's "needs"),
⏺️Survival mechanism
⏺️Real support for Nazism
Twitter has become so overwhelmingly Right-Wing, so male dominated. It was not like this before. In have been on Twitter for 18 years. There was balance. There were nice people, lots of talented women. But gender trolling by Right-Wing drove the women away. Now it's a bunch of violent RW men.
February 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Twitter has become so overwhelmingly Right-Wing, so male dominated. It was not like this before. In have been on Twitter for 18 years. There was balance. There were nice people, lots of talented women. But gender trolling by Right-Wing drove the women away. Now it's a bunch of violent RW men.
Every Tweet by Elon Musk reek of hate, cruelty, and some sort of sick sadistic violence. It's depressing to read them. Only thing more depressing are the hundreds of replies on his Tweets supporting the cruelty. Why is there nobody to oppose? Did they all leave Twitter for Blue Sky?
February 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Every Tweet by Elon Musk reek of hate, cruelty, and some sort of sick sadistic violence. It's depressing to read them. Only thing more depressing are the hundreds of replies on his Tweets supporting the cruelty. Why is there nobody to oppose? Did they all leave Twitter for Blue Sky?
From Trump's Executive Order meltdown to buying countries attempted bullying efforts to now Elon Musk trying to buy Open AI and Sam Altman saying, "Musk tries many things, I don't think he is a happy person, I feel for him"— I never thought following American politics can be so entertaining.
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
From Trump's Executive Order meltdown to buying countries attempted bullying efforts to now Elon Musk trying to buy Open AI and Sam Altman saying, "Musk tries many things, I don't think he is a happy person, I feel for him"— I never thought following American politics can be so entertaining.
Both left and right have failed to focus on Liberalism, Enlightenment and the values of reason and rationality and diluted the discourse on political economy with post-colonial, post-modernist fluff. Collectively, we failed in articulating political issues in terms of ideologies.
February 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Both left and right have failed to focus on Liberalism, Enlightenment and the values of reason and rationality and diluted the discourse on political economy with post-colonial, post-modernist fluff. Collectively, we failed in articulating political issues in terms of ideologies.
I wrote this brilliant piece some years back but myself forgot just how good it was. It resurfaced when the legendary Meera Nanda came to my blog and read it and reached out to me. What a moment in my life. sanjukta.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/a...
A Response to Prof Ranjit Goswami’s Claim That India Was Already A Post-Truth Society
A counter narrative has emerged in India that there is nothing to talk about post-truth politics since India was already a post-truth society. Prof Ranjit Goswami’s 2017 article on The Conver…
sanjukta.wordpress.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote this brilliant piece some years back but myself forgot just how good it was. It resurfaced when the legendary Meera Nanda came to my blog and read it and reached out to me. What a moment in my life. sanjukta.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/a...
In my recent visit to Nepal, everywhere at the Kathmandu Durbar Square I saw this sign, China Aid. Most of the heritage sites, infrastructure in Nepal were restored/maintained by China Aid. As Trump+Musk kill USAID, China will expand China Aid, and grow its influence and soft power.
February 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In my recent visit to Nepal, everywhere at the Kathmandu Durbar Square I saw this sign, China Aid. Most of the heritage sites, infrastructure in Nepal were restored/maintained by China Aid. As Trump+Musk kill USAID, China will expand China Aid, and grow its influence and soft power.
Every Trump action defies everything we believed about US, and it's getting exhausting to try to understand.
👉 Is there no system of checks and balances on the US Presidents at all?
Did US presidents always have unlimited powers on paper via Executive Orders and Trump i? the only guy who used it?
👉 Is there no system of checks and balances on the US Presidents at all?
Did US presidents always have unlimited powers on paper via Executive Orders and Trump i? the only guy who used it?
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Every Trump action defies everything we believed about US, and it's getting exhausting to try to understand.
👉 Is there no system of checks and balances on the US Presidents at all?
Did US presidents always have unlimited powers on paper via Executive Orders and Trump i? the only guy who used it?
👉 Is there no system of checks and balances on the US Presidents at all?
Did US presidents always have unlimited powers on paper via Executive Orders and Trump i? the only guy who used it?
I was searching for this. Wanted to know when are the law suits coming and how many.
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I was searching for this. Wanted to know when are the law suits coming and how many.
I Submitted my research paper for a prestigious Sage Journal. Only 8 out of 10 will make it. My paper doesn't have hot topics like AI or machine learning or climate change or identities like Dalit Muslim Black Palestine. It just has lived experience of 15 women who were trolled. Will it make it?
February 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I Submitted my research paper for a prestigious Sage Journal. Only 8 out of 10 will make it. My paper doesn't have hot topics like AI or machine learning or climate change or identities like Dalit Muslim Black Palestine. It just has lived experience of 15 women who were trolled. Will it make it?
Govt in every country is so scared of social media. What a shame. Since invention of printing press a nexus of power and media controlled the narrative. Internet gave the masses a voice for the 1st time. Even if there's fake and hate speech but we still need internet free from govt control.
#Nepal government has registered a #SocialMediaBill at the Parliament, which if passed without major rework, will crush freedom of expression, press freedom and right to dissent, while giving arbitrary powers to administrators to punish platforms & users. TV debate 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbO...
बोल्न र लेख्न पनि पाइन्न ? | SAROKAR | 29 January 2025
YouTube video by Kantipur TV HD
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January 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Govt in every country is so scared of social media. What a shame. Since invention of printing press a nexus of power and media controlled the narrative. Internet gave the masses a voice for the 1st time. Even if there's fake and hate speech but we still need internet free from govt control.
I will Speak at this Panel Discussion tomorrow on Building Gender Inclusive Spaces in Public Transport, sharing the findings from a study I conducted to identify the challenges faced by women bus drivers of DTC at their workplace. I spoke to 15 women bus drivers and DTC officials for the study.
January 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I will Speak at this Panel Discussion tomorrow on Building Gender Inclusive Spaces in Public Transport, sharing the findings from a study I conducted to identify the challenges faced by women bus drivers of DTC at their workplace. I spoke to 15 women bus drivers and DTC officials for the study.
Trump's EO which says there are only two sexes and completely bans gender ideology also says that "Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology." This is most likely to affect lot of NGOs. Anybody have more on this? Any reaction from feminist organizations?
January 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trump's EO which says there are only two sexes and completely bans gender ideology also says that "Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology." This is most likely to affect lot of NGOs. Anybody have more on this? Any reaction from feminist organizations?
Now folding @weareceu.bsky.social who just announced their migration from Twitter to Bluesky. I am still conflicted about a migration. I am in both places as of now.
January 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Now folding @weareceu.bsky.social who just announced their migration from Twitter to Bluesky. I am still conflicted about a migration. I am in both places as of now.
The Hindu Right have created some mind-blowing intricate fake news that are in circulation for over 70 years and even made it to the History channel docu Ancient Aliens. Like the book Vaimanika Shastra, claimed to be ancient Vedic text containing "aeronautical science" but actually written in 1930s.
January 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Hindu Right have created some mind-blowing intricate fake news that are in circulation for over 70 years and even made it to the History channel docu Ancient Aliens. Like the book Vaimanika Shastra, claimed to be ancient Vedic text containing "aeronautical science" but actually written in 1930s.
Similar housing crisis is seen in India too. Vast majority of urban Indians live in slums or unauthorised builder's colonies. Millions are homeless. Worst is that even high earning class can't afford a house because prices are artificially jacked even when there are not enough buyers.
Besides deepening racial inequality, does the UK #housing market erode the #health of those left to suffer the exploitation of the rental sector?
Stephen Walcott and Serena Robinson @runnymedetrust.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social
Stephen Walcott and Serena Robinson @runnymedetrust.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social
Wealth is health: housing, health inequalities and communities of colour
In the UK, homeowners tend to accumulate wealth while those unable to get on the property ladder are left behind. This fuels the racial wealth divide. But does the UK housing market also erode the …
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January 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Similar housing crisis is seen in India too. Vast majority of urban Indians live in slums or unauthorised builder's colonies. Millions are homeless. Worst is that even high earning class can't afford a house because prices are artificially jacked even when there are not enough buyers.
Women's Studies and Right Wing Studies are two of my research interests. I am interested in women's lives, their existential quest, identity, place in the world, belonging. And how right-wing politics impact women. Sadly, both have no research scope in India.
Pls help me find opportunities in US.
Pls help me find opportunities in US.
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Women's Studies and Right Wing Studies are two of my research interests. I am interested in women's lives, their existential quest, identity, place in the world, belonging. And how right-wing politics impact women. Sadly, both have no research scope in India.
Pls help me find opportunities in US.
Pls help me find opportunities in US.
Happy New Year Everyone from me and my cat. Also a little recap of my year 2024. Full video on Instagram www.instagram.com/share/reel/_...
#Recap2024 #happynewyear2025
#Recap2024 #happynewyear2025
January 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happy New Year Everyone from me and my cat. Also a little recap of my year 2024. Full video on Instagram www.instagram.com/share/reel/_...
#Recap2024 #happynewyear2025
#Recap2024 #happynewyear2025