Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 13th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
| Homepage | https://www.chatterjee.net |
| Walking Tour | https://www.berkeleysouthasian.org |
| History | https://www.secretdesihistory.com/ |
| https://twitter.com/anirvan |
I spent the weekend at the Bay Area Book Festival. Check out our book haul.
I don’t understand the fake Desi wedding trend. But why not queer it I guess? Representation, even in some of our culture’s most confusing spaces.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/19/queer-south-asians-get-their-own-big-fat-desi-wedding/
"Detainees at the Newark immigrant detention facility say they are refusing meals not only to draw attention to the miserable conditions inside, but because the meals themselves are one of those miseries. They describe spoiled and expired food, sometimes containing live worms, as one form of inhumane treatment, alongside inadequate medical care, unsanitary housing, and complaints about ignored due process rights."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/30/ice-trump-new-jersey-detention
I’m seeing this across my ecosystem: as electoral politics becomes a primary front against this administration, more nonprofits are launching 501c4s to be able to take political stances
Stop AAPI Hate is an organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous reports on anti-Asian hate incidents at the height of the pandemic. The organization has announced Thursday it is launching a nonprofit called Stop AAPI Hate Action. It's a political and advocacy arm dedicated to getting more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders registered to vote and mobilize current voters. Over the past six years, the organization has elevated conversations about racism, discrimination and allyship. The voter initiative was sparked in part in response to actions from President Donald Trump’s administration.
As a #climate scientist I cannot overstate how angry I am it's not 100%. But it's the fault of the GOP & decades of relentless fossil-fuel propaganda.
Only "48% (of Americans) say that Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels."
Woo! The one sport where Desis perpetually dominate
This Trump administration OSINT
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
“While Mizzou’s AAA is having to scramble to backfill the $28,000 lost for this coming school year, the organization has faced financial rollbacks before. Songco said Mizzou pulled funding from AAA’s annual fall event last year because the administration said the event’s name, ‘UnificAsian,’ was exclusionary to other groups.”
https://asamnews.com/2026/05/26/universities-cut-dei-funding-aapi-students-impacted/
“Taken as a whole, this is the most profound rollback of the rights of a minority in my lifetime…we have the answer to a question I have been asking for some time: with the UK under assault from the same forces that are destroying the US, when will our democratic backsliding start?”
“But then one day your manager says, ‘Can you spend the next two weeks focused on this larger strategic project?’ And suddenly your brain feels broken. It’s not because you can’t do the work and it’s not because you lack the skills, but because your entire working rhythm has been shaped around short bursts of reactive problem solving.”
https://blog.reclaimhosting.com/support-systems-customer-support-broke-my-brain-and-how-to-fix-it/
Customer support specialists deal in urgency on a daily basis. Even when we’re not dealing with truly urgent issues - like crashed networks, deleted accounts, or the dreaded white screen of death - other situations combine to add an underlying sense of pressing importance to every task. There are
Peter Gleick
