Janaki Srinivasan/ஜானகி

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Social Scientist | Political Theory | Feminist | South Asian
Here for a democratic digital public sphere

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The film that's playing on you-know-who's mindscreen all the time:
Ek Tha Nehru
THE KERALA STORY | Azeem Banatwalla Stand-Up Comedy (2023)

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Rain descended upon them like fine threads.Daylight,which had remained hidden by the clouds, coloured the threads yellow. In their town,weavers would stretch the warp in the mornings and apply dye to the threads.This rain was like a warp stood vertically on end
-Heat, by Poomani trans. N. kalyan Raman.

Remember that IFFI jury member who went about tying himself in knots over jury chief Nadav Lapid's comments on Kashmir Files?

That's the guy who has now made Kerala Story.

Aparna Balamurali crackles on screen. How am I seeing her work so late?
#Tamilcinema #womenincinema
Millet upma kozhakatai (steamed upma balls) is the best example of successfully substituting rice with millets in a dish.
I have spoken.
Am late in sharing this publication. Do DM for a pdf. It's titled 'Teaching the State in Political Theory: Notes towards an Alternative Framework' and published in Studies in Indian Politics.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23210230221135814
#teachingpolitics #politicaltheory #state
What else can these guys do but delete. Even rewriting requires writing. துப்பு இல்லை.
I came across a Hafez poem and something didn't seem right. Turns out it and much of what is attributed to him isn't Hafez at all, and what has happened to Hafez in the publishing politics of Persian literature in English is even worse than that of Rumi.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/14/fake-hafez-how-a-supreme-persian-poet-of-love-was-erased/
Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased

That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality.

Al Jazeera