TOMORROW at #ASP23: Paolina Massidda - Principal Counsel of the Office of the Public Counsel for Victims at the International Criminal Court will join Phillipe Larochelle, @avisingh.bsky.social , and others to discuss holding Azerbaijan accountable for its crimes against Armenians.

On this day, the 6th of December, two poems by Gieve Patel.

On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day)

and

The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.

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Two excellent books on my part of the world.

@iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough.

and

Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.