Urducosmo
@urducosmo.bsky.social
Author of Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia. Currently a formalist.
Excited to announce that my special issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social, co-edited with Preetha Mani, on The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia, will be out soon! Check out the Editor’s Note, TOC, and Afterword online now! modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
Volume 32, Number 3, September 2025. Special Issue: The Language Challenge | Modernism / Modernity Print+
The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow The Imagist Ghazal: Urdu Modernism and Japan Jennifer Dubrow Hindi After Urdu: North Indian Modernisms and the Multiple Poetics of Fragmentation Gregory Goulding Modernism at the Conjunctures: Marathi Multilingualisms in the 1979 Special Issue of Rucā Anjali Nerlekar How Absurdism
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December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Excited to announce that my special issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social, co-edited with Preetha Mani, on The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia, will be out soon! Check out the Editor’s Note, TOC, and Afterword online now! modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
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Happy Diwali to all those celebrating!
This absolutely spectacular early 18C Kishangarh painting, reminiscent of the hand of great Mughal master Bhavanidas, is part of the most extraordinary collection of paintings up for auction next week at Christies.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
This absolutely spectacular early 18C Kishangarh painting, reminiscent of the hand of great Mughal master Bhavanidas, is part of the most extraordinary collection of paintings up for auction next week at Christies.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy Diwali to all those celebrating!
This absolutely spectacular early 18C Kishangarh painting, reminiscent of the hand of great Mughal master Bhavanidas, is part of the most extraordinary collection of paintings up for auction next week at Christies.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
This absolutely spectacular early 18C Kishangarh painting, reminiscent of the hand of great Mughal master Bhavanidas, is part of the most extraordinary collection of paintings up for auction next week at Christies.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?
Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.
excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.
excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?
Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.
excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.
excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
This is a tough day (and a tough time), but also noting that yesterday Title 6 centers and FLAS fellowships were all terminated.
September 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is a tough day (and a tough time), but also noting that yesterday Title 6 centers and FLAS fellowships were all terminated.
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2 of my books, 12 of my articles.
I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.
I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.
I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
2 of my books, 12 of my articles.
I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.
I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.
I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
And seems like I should repost this, too.
Good to see the current @aupresses.bsky.social Pres, Anthony Cond, Dir of Liverpool UP, reiterating UPs’ commitment to bibliodiversity. Tho also noteworthy that no US UPs are quoted. UPs don’t just sell books to uni libes but are at unis being targeted. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Academic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge Bites
Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear.
www.insidehighered.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
And seems like I should repost this, too.
Hello BlueSky! My first post here. Let me also speak out as a Columbia alum. When I was a student there in the late 90s, my impression was that the administration will do whatever it takes for money.
Academic freedom is absolutely essential in a democratic society and must be protected and encouraged, not surrendered. As a Columbia alum who is now a university professor, I’m stunned and disgusted by what they have done. It sets a terrible precedent.
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Hello BlueSky! My first post here. Let me also speak out as a Columbia alum. When I was a student there in the late 90s, my impression was that the administration will do whatever it takes for money.