Assoc. Prof, NLSIU, Bangalore | Studies cities and political economy | Author of Properties of Rent (CUP, 2022)| Views personal
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Super grateful and honoured to be awarded the BASAS book prize this year, jointly with the excellent @ollyakkerman. Congratulations!
The 2024 BASAS Book Prize panel had an excellent field of books to evaluate.
Ultimately the Book Prize panel were unanimous about the decision to award the prize jointly to Olly Akkerman and Sushmita Pati.
Congratulations to the winning authors!
basas.org.uk/news-events/bas…
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The Sociology Scholars Forum at the Department of Sociology invites abstracts to its annual graduate conference scheduled on 13th February 2027.
A 200-250 abstract is due by 30th November 2026. We will provide local travel, accommodation and food. Please spread the word.
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most toxic problem in Indian univs is equating rigor with "strictness". When tapasya-pariksha culture replaces curiosity & exploration-- you get a pressure cooker.
Real issue is how this system treats "failure" & "cheating". Most teachers default think students are lazy, spoilt cuz back when they were students it was so much worse & it made them "stronger"
This obsession w. strength IS the weakness.
Pressures on marginalized caste, low income, first gen students is unbearable. This should be a moment to look at our exam toxicity & academic culture-- instead casteist Savarnas will make it about bogus merit discourse & make strawman arguments against reservation.
What a relevant piece for today's times! Cannot wait to read it
New publication!
In this paper I explore the everyday spatial experiences of authoritarianism in Indian universities and propose conceptual tools to examine authoritarian politics in university contexts.
Open access too!!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.7012…
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My wife’s powerful article in today’s Indian Express. “His words are free, my son is not”
Six years of incarceration without trial is not justice—it is discrimination,
You may imprison a person, but you cannot imprison his words, silence his ideas, or put his thoughts behind bars
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NLSIU, Bengaluru, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University, USA and Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai are jointly organising a PhD Workshop on ‘State, Citizenship and Mobilisations in Contemporary India’ on August 10th-11th, 2026
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Dear friends, colleagues, critics and well-wishers, my book Spectacle State will be finally releasing on the 17th of July. It is ready to Pre-order now on Amazon. Please order your copy in advance so you get it on time. Thanks
amazon.in/Spectacle-State-Hi…
Hello Bangalore Twitter. @sharma_sarbani and I are looking to speak with retired officers from Bangalore PSUs- BEL, BHEL, BEML, ITI, HMT and NGEF. Can you please help with contacts?
Check out these lovely 2 month long courses being offered by IDSKolkata on public history, Urban, poverty and gender! RT
1. At @IDSKolkata I will be offering a 2 month long in-person course on #publichistory where we will explore the processes, politics & ethichs of engagement b/w a historian and the 'public' in indian context. Tentatively 16 classes, march and april. (Cont.)
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I urge you all, if you have the time, to watch this video on @IndianExpress's YouTube channel, where I speak about my experience working on these apps. youtube.com/watch?v=4Expa52F…
Read the latest Socio Legal Review issue that is now out! From atrocity to a colonial case on widowhood to data narratives on women in judiciary, this issue carries a lot. All open access.
The Editorial Board (2024-25) of the Socio-Legal Review is delighted to announce the release of Volume 21, Issue 1!
To access the Issue, please visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol…
Happening today at 5pm!
#GuestLecture
The #HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law at #NLSIU is organising a talk on ‘Hidden Precarities: Debt and Embodied Risk in Urban Uttarakhand, India’ by @ProfessorSmitha Radhakrishnan from @Wellesley College.
🗓️Day & Date: January 8, 2026
⏲️Time: 5 PM
📍Venue: Ground Floor Conference Room, Training Centre
👉This event is open to the public. Know more: nls.ac.in/news-events/guest-…
@PostitAcademic @mahima_bala @MoHUA_India
Our first talk of the year! Come to hear Smitha Radhakrishnan talk about debt and precarity in Uttarakhand. Our talks are open to the public. But do register!
#GuestLecture
The #HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law at #NLSIU is organising a talk on ‘Hidden Precarities: Debt and Embodied Risk in Urban Uttarakhand, India’ by @ProfessorSmitha Radhakrishnan from @Wellesley College.
🗓️Day & Date: January 8, 2026
⏲️Time: 5 PM
📍Venue: Ground Floor Conference Room, Training Centre
👉This event is open to the public. Know more: nls.ac.in/news-events/guest-…
@PostitAcademic @mahima_bala @MoHUA_India
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The men and women whom the Delhi police refused to investigate.
1. Ragini Tiwari
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IDSK is offering a nine month course titled Research Programme in Development Studies. Suitable for students who have completed Masters, preparing for phd application
idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploa…
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This is tomorrow evening. Do join @AilajHq as we host Usha Ramanathan, Talha Rahman and Darshana Mitra to talk about the assault on citizenship.
AILAJ invites you to a webinar on "Detention, Deportation, and the Unmaking of Citizens"
Sunday, 24 Aug 2025
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Zoom Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8997178173…
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Adv. Talha Abdul Rahman, and Darshana Mitra examine how citizenship is under attack across India.
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#PanelDiscussion
Prof. Patrick Heller, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney and Dr. Siddharth Swaminathan from @BrownUniversity, presented the findings from their latest report titled ‘Citizenship, Inequality and Urban Governance: A Study of Indian Cities’ at a panel discussion held at #NLSIU on August 13, 2025.
The session dived into the themes of 'Basic Service Delivery, Segregation and Inequality' and 'Participation, Social Interactions and Governance' with NLS faculty Dr. Sushmita Pati and Dr. Angarika Rakshit as discussants.
Know more: tinyurl.com/4kpeaye4
@PostitAcademic
Just a friendly reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Do drop in!
📕#BookTalkAtNLS
NLSIU’s #HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law is organising a book talk on 'Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India' by Dr. Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer, Gender and Global Politics, Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh.
📍Venue: Training Centre, NLSIU
🗓️Date: July 25, 2025
🕓Time: 5 PM
Please note: This talk is open to the public.
Know more: nls.ac.in/news-events/talk-o…
Watch this if you want to know the story on the ground.
Thanks @akash_del06 for this important conversation that goes beyond Delhi.
Why are slums and informal colonies being demolished in Delhi? What is the politics behind this? In conversation with Kapil Sharma from AIPF.
youtube.com/watch?v=LewhD4gJ…
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CFP!
A workshop for scholars and activists working on the themes of #cities, #Migration, #security, #humanitarian and #solidarity to engage in sustained, interdisciplinary collaboration under the close mentorship of research faculty.
Apply:forms.gle/eCMVu9CpMJju659p8
