My review of “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners” by @suchitrav.bsky.social & Francesca Recchia has been published in Social Change!

Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/action/showM...

“No Other Land” is a must watch documentary on the difficult work of holding on to hope amidst persistent occupation & harassment to fight for one’s communities and their homes.

I just hope this enables us to do a lot more than watch and know.

Kumbh stampede makes this a good time to read Kama Maclean's "Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad 1765-1954." As the largest gathering in the world, the Kumbh has historically spurred state-intervention, caused disaster, and influenced politics, including a secular anticol. politics.

and watched a lot of:

read/heard these over break instead...

this had me 💀

new fiction reading wishlist for the winter:

such blatant discrimination against these sad, cold pigeons in Toronto! 🐦

can't get over this searing review of....an annual prison administration report (?!) Published in The Pioneer (Allahabad, December 1872) 🗃️

naps + cats + napping cat = 💖

inaugurating my posts here with a blessing from Chikki 🌺