My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
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Fantastic, informative piece and also sad at the same time. I had no idea!
aug 30, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s awful!!
aug 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Appalling indeed! And I hope there will be more pushback against these cuts. But I enjoyed reading about your language-studies background & how you first got started as a translator. For Urdu vocabulary, I depend on the DSAL Platt's dictionary online… I've been sharing this piece a lot today:
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, I too am a hater!
aug 31, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view
Why are you surprised when this is the university that prides itself on lecturing Black and queer students to coddle bigotry?
sep 1, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Believe me, I know the shortcomings of the institution, having spent 11 years there. But to me, this is a whole new frontier
sep 1, 2025, 4:46 pm • 1 0 • view
True. As you say, I don’t even see how it makes sense for them.
sep 1, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
So sorry and angry this is happening. My words on why so-called genAI will always be the worst way to understand the past or write about it: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
aug 31, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 1 • view
And on the larger stakes of outsourcing literary and creative things, an except from the "Machines" chapter of my new book, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY: lithub.com/were-already...
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Sending solidarity! Your words ring true for universities in the UK too.
aug 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
But read to the end for the Dalek content 😉
aug 30, 2025, 5:28 pm • 11 1 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you Daisy. You wouldn’t remember me but we met in college.
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
Oooh, context?
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
Oooh well….It was at at a certain coed fraternity. That’s all I should say. It was way too long ago.
sep 1, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Terrible news! Good for you for writing this. It seems unthinkable they would do this but the unthinkable is happening everywhere now.
sep 1, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Good piece. Are there writings in S Asian languages that can shed light on some of these questions (value of human-pursued translation, language instruction, theorization)? All I know is this photo images.timesnownews.com/photo/msid-1...
aug 30, 2025, 5:53 pm • 9 1 • view
Lol! I love this.
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 3 0 • view