Max Weber Fellow @EUI_ECO ◆︎ Prev. Wallis post-doc @UofR, @PrincetonEcon Ph.D. ◆ micro-economic theory and political economy ◆ RT =/= endorsement
Nov 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I am proud to be a co-author on this report by @ncri_io on the recent violence in Leicester, UK along with lead author @prasiddhaa_, @AlexWGoldenberg, and many other talented researchers.
I have started using machine learning in some of my academic work to complement theory. Having the opportunity to work with @ncri_io has given me a lot to learn not just about new methodologies, but also about the cascading effects social media can have on real-world violence
Nov 10, 2022 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Since moving to Italy, what I miss least about the U.S. is praise of genocide denial as a "progressive" position. Awaiting the day we say 'bye bye' to the celebration of Hinduphobia.
Yet, even this is an opportunity to document what befell Hindus of Bangladesh in 1971 🧵👇
"Nothing is more clear, or more easily documented, than the systematic campaign of terror–and its genocidal consequences–launched by the Pakistani army on the night of March 25th..."
- Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senate Judiciary Comte. "Crisis in South Asia."
Aug 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Imagine smearing fellow academics as BJP stooges, alleging xenophobically that a large subset of a U.S. religious minority are beholden to a foreign power, representing RW Indian trolls as your "critics" as a strawman to insulate yourself from scholarly criticism, ... (1/6)
...ironically casting those who speak of Hinduphobia as insulating BJP from criticism, and denying that large-scale anti-Hindu violence (Kashmiri Pandits, Bengali Hindu genocide, etc.) has ever taken place in your handbook of horrors. (2/6)
Aug 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A TALE OF TWO QUOTES...
First -- "Anti-Hindu bias, [unlike Islamophobia and anti-Semitism], *cannot be easily linked* to casualties on such horrific scales."
Source: 'Hindutva Harrassment Field Manual,' South Asia Scholar Activist Collective (SASAC).
Second --
"Nothing is more clear, or *more easily documented*, than the systematic campaign of terror – and its genocidal consequences – launched by the Pakistani army on the night of March 25th..."
Source: Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senate Judiciary Comte. "Crisis in South Asia."
Jul 21, 2021 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
I feel so gaslit by @arunNYC’s “report” on “Hindutva threats” to academic freedom & Hinduphobia that I’m breaking my 7-year Twitter maun vratam (silence). @WNYC’s deliberate ERASURE of Hindu-scholar voices must be called out. @indumathi37@hinduoncampus@HinduStudentsC (1/n)
Troubling that @WNYC’s race & immigration reporter centered discussion on Hinduphobia and diaspora views around a white woman being attacked by Indian trolls and had brown U.S. voices implicitly argue AROUND *her* throughout the segment. Someone tell @WNYC it’s not 1923. (2/n)
