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Feb 18, 2022

Why Do I Strike?

Why Do I Strike? (I gave this speech at a rally organised by my brilliant fellow union members in the Cambridge branch of the University and College Union on the 17th of February, 2022. Power to the union!) First of all, a big shoutout to all of you here and…

Ucu Strike

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Why Do I Strike?
Why Do I Strike?
Ucu Strike

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Oct 14, 2021

Statement on Home Office Cancellation of my Talk on Anticolonialism, Race, and Empire.

Over the last year or so, the Home Office’s staff network has reached out via agencies to book me for a talk. October 14 this year panned out for both parties, dovetailing with a series the Office is running for Black History Month. …

British Home Offic

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Statement on Home Office Cancellation of my Talk on Anticolonialism, Race, and Empire.
Statement on Home Office Cancellation of my Talk on Anticolonialism, Race, and Empire.
British Home Offic

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Feb 12, 2021

Introduction to ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr.

Introduction to ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill’ with Madhusree Mukerji, Kehinde Andrews, and Onyeka Nubia. It is a pleasure to welcome so many of you to this event. Thanks are due to the Archives Centre, and its Director, Allen Packwood, and the College, for insisting, rightly, that it is…

Winston Churchill

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Introduction to ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr.
Introduction to ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr.
Winston Churchill

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May 18, 2019

Rest in Grumpiness: Cats as Refuseniks

(This is an unpublished piece I wrote five years. I'm offering it now, unmodified, as a tribute on the occasion of the passing of Tardar Sauce aka Grumpy Cat.) Names like Grumpy Cat, Henri, Lil Bub, and Maru may ring but the faintest of bells, you’ll have encountered at least…

Cats

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Cats

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Jun 29, 2018

A brief note on caste and anti-racism

Re-reading both Annihilation of Caste and Hatred in the Belly ahead of the Bradford Literary Festival, I fully understand why there is a deep and necessary critique of the disproportionate and outsize platform Brahmins and other savarnas, including me, have both within and without India. This critique has to be…

India

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India

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Apr 15, 2018

OF BIGOTRY, BIGGAR AND THE DAILY MAIL: BRIEF REFLECTIONS

OF BIGOTRY, BIGGAR AND THE DAILY MAIL: BRIEF REFLECTIONS My heartfelt thanks to the hundreds of people who have sent their solidarity and support via email and social media in the wake of the shamelessly racist and slanted attack on me by the Daily Mail. It is clear that most…

Racism

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OF BIGOTRY, BIGGAR AND THE DAILY MAIL: BRIEF REFLECTIONS
OF BIGOTRY, BIGGAR AND THE DAILY MAIL: BRIEF REFLECTIONS
Racism

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Feb 22, 2018

Speech at Cambridge University Student Union Solidarity Rally

I want to begin by paying grateful tribute to the young people who are now leading the Cambridge branch of the UCU and who have put in enormous amounts of energy, labour and time into organising industrial action on this campus. What is striking — and relevant to what I…

Ucu

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Speech at Cambridge University Student Union Solidarity Rally
Speech at Cambridge University Student Union Solidarity Rally
Ucu

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Feb 18, 2018

Response to Mary Beard

Dear Mary, Thank you for your tweet suggesting we talk and the subsequent email proposing a date. Works for me. Much as I look forward to our private meeting, I think it’s necessary for some part of this conversation to be public because at the end of the day it…

Politics

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Politics

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