Vulnerable Hindus in #Myanmar who are fighting the military regime have been calling on the Modi gov to stand up for them, but to no avail. So, even within Hindu homeland diplomacy, Delhi seems to be selectively focused on Muslim-majority countries. (3/n)

Shared some of my (rough) ideas on how to do better collaborative borderland research in #SoutheastAsia at ANU Southeast Asia Student Research Symposium, ANU, Canberra.

Prof Evelyn Goh opening the SE Asia Student Research Symposium at ANU, Canberra. This year’s iteration is centred around country vs regional scholarship in #SoutheastAsia.

Kenyan senator Richard Onyonka accuses #Adani group of 'state capture' in #Kenya. Interesting term, most recently rooted in the South African experience with the Gupta family & Jacob Zuma. Also, an apt term for India today, where agencies seem to be acting at the behest of specific corporates.

I’d been wracking my head over why he would go out of his way to fawn over Trump. Now it makes sense, in light of the DOJ indictment.

Monsoons have arrived in #Singapore. Finally, it’ll rain all 7 days of the week instead of 6.5.

Free speech warrior Elon Musk joining forces with Ancient Democracy Bharat 👍🏽

Twitter has lost its plot so hard that people are just casually calling on the Indian government to bomb their own country from the air

Yet again, the #Myanmar junta bombs its own civilians – this time a Church in Kanan village near Khampat (Sagaing Region), right next to the India-Myanmar border. 11 reported killed, incl children.

India calls itself a “Vishwa-Mitra” (global friend), but won’t use its leverage to stop these crimes.

#London after nine years 🥲