@PatrickFrench

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Joined January 2011
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Astonishing scenes as a Kabul university professor destroys his diplomas on live TV in Afghanistan — “From today I don’t need these diplomas anymore because this country is no place for an education. If my sister & my mother can’t study, then I DON’T accept this education.” – at Hounslow, London
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The relative media & online silence around the Kurds murdered in #Paris by a man known to be racist & formerly violent towards immigrants is so loud right now.
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Meru Gokhale
@MeruGokhale25 Nov 2022
It is Saint Catherine’s day today. The patron saint of students, young women, librarians, wheelwrights and women who beat male philosophers in debate (she debated 50 of them at once). Caravaggio’s portrait.
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‘One of the most beautiful moments in the story is when they manage a momentary rendezvous in the mountains, having previously communicated obliquely via coded letters’ @PatrickFrench on Eric Newby – & a woman named Wanda – in Love & War in the Apennines foxedquarterly.com/shop/eric…
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Penguin India@PenguinIndia26 May 2022
And history is made! We are elated to announce that the brilliant #GeetanjaliShree’s novel #TombOfSand, translated by @shreedaisy, has become the first Hindi-language novel to be awarded the International Booker Prize. @TheBookerPrizes #2022InternationalBookerPrize
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Meru Gokhale
@MeruGokhale21 May 2022
Reading about 'worst boyfriend ever' Frank Kafka. His 'most important romantic liaison began on a summer evening in Prague in 1912. He was 29. He met Felice Bauer,'an independent-minded 24-year-old ... her down-to-earth vigour appealed to the neurotic, self-conscious Kafka.'
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A chance find in a street free book library is taking back to nomadic life on the step (I lived in Mongolia, not Tibet), hanging out with Lamas, and diving deep into the mystery & troubles of this fabled land : Thanks @PatrickFrench
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Perhaps the US should be looking for off-ramps in the Ukraine war rather than expanding its war aims.
Julian Borger@julianborger10 May 2022
Replying to @julianborger
On nuclear threat, Haines said: "We continue to believe that President Putin would probably only authorise the use of nuclear weapons if he perceived an existential threat to the Russian state or his regime."
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Happening tomorrow, a lecture by @sepoy, Associate Professor, @Columbia on how Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India to the one that we inhabit today. Register - ow.ly/g08U50IZ146
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In our Monsoon semester class ‘A History of the World since 1300’ with @Princeton’s Global History Lab (GHL), @AhdUniv students learn about the history of globalisation through oral history methods and document analysis. Learn more - ow.ly/CrYO50IQuBq #JoinAhmedabad
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The History Major at the School of Arts and Sciences @AhdUniv invites high school students to participate in an Essay Competition on the life and deeds of a historical figure of your choosing. For more details visit: bit.ly/3CE9oRG #JoinAhmedabad
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Christopher Clary
@clary_co8 Mar 2022
Can’t believe after a decade of the brightest minds thinking about hybrid warfare, little green men, maritime militias, cyber Pearl Harbors and the like that Putin just decided to invade his next door neighbor with an army like it was 1939.
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Mathematical shortcuts have played a vital role in enabling human progress, from constructing the first cities around the Euphrates to today. Register to hear the great science communicator Marcus du Sautoy speak on Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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In the latest iteration of the Intersections Seminar Series organised by @ahmedabad, Professors Nithin George and Sayan Goswami explored experimental techniques used in cognitive psychology to build conceptual models of Artificial Intelligence agents’ behaviour. #artsandsciences
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Fascinating! 🌻
Patrick French@PatrickFrench10 Feb 2022
A video of the <Writing Writers' Lives> conversation between Maya Jasanoff and myself on the art and craft of literary biography. Using Conrad, Lessing and Naipaul as examples, we investigate where literary, personal and intellectual biography might meet. youtu.be/vhr5VPyOWbA

Seminar and Lecture Series: Writing Writers' Lives

In this vibrant discussion Professor Maya Jasanoff and Professor Pa...

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Judy Raymond@heyjudeTT29 Jan 2022
Patrick French is the authorised biographer of Naipaul who wrote the shocking but not entirely surprising The World Is What It Is
Patrick French@PatrickFrench29 Jan 2022
An online conversation with me and Maya Jasanoff on the art and craft of biography. How should you understand an individual life — and where do literary, personal and intellectual biography meet? Wednesday 2 February at 5pm IST. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Rahul Pandita
@rahulpandita26 Jan 2022
Nine years of “Our Moon has Blood Clots” — with @PatrickFrench and @MeruGokhale
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Faiza S Khan@BhopalHouse5 Dec 2021
Florence Ezekiel aka Nadira, born on this day.
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Policy Tensor
@policytensor18 Nov 2021
Straight out of the McCarthy era. The foremost intellectual in climate finance of the day, @STOmarova, being grilled for communist sympathies. Something to behold. 👇
Lee Harris@leee_harris18 Nov 2021
Replying to @leee_harris
Kennedy asks about Omarova’s membership in a Soviet youth group. “Everybody in that country was a member of the Komsomol... it was a part of normal progress in school.” “Have you resigned?” “You grow out of it with age.” “Did you send them a letter, though, resigning?”
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Professor Darshini Mahadevia participated in a panel on ‘Future of Mobility Through Local Innovation and Transport Solutions’, organised by the Department of Transport, UK Government at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. Listen to her at youtube.com/watch?v=o8e3MQZF…
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