Dibyesh Anand 🏳️🌈
@dibyeshanand
Cat-loving Queer Professor of International Relations (views my own) | Preferred pronouns: he/him
When you elect a creepy man as a president, you get a president who is creepy
Is Trump the kind of guy who would give a sleazy birthday card to a pedophile? Yes...?
My latest: Trump opened the door to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He needs to close it and stop feeding the Israeli right's fantasies of conquest, or he will never achieve the peace he claims to want. Please read the whole thing. Gift link below.
Dibyesh Anand on why Narendra Modi should not be welcomed in UK youtu.be/4OLC04ZdDx4?si… I spoke here 9 yrs ago as a scholar of Hindu nationalism in India and as someone who has observed #NarendraModi for more than 23 years. Things have been on downslide since then. Modi was, and…
"A tree for Mother" by 'Mother of #Democracy'! Befits #Modi's engineered legitimacy spectacles abroad when #India parliament is in session. - All mothers? Mothers of Najeeb? Umar Khalid? APDP mothers? Rohit Vemula? Of daughters raped/killed/set ablaze w/o a word from him? Of…
His Majesty King Charles III is very passionate about nature, environment and sustainable living. Thus, his joining the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ (a tree for Mother) movement is very noteworthy and will inspire people around the world.
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Adulthood is just saying, "next month should be less hectic" over and over until you die
17 goals. 5 years to achieve them. Can we do it? 4 things you should know about the latest data on #SDGs progress: buff.ly/mHlsZaX #SDGReport #Agenda2030
And much of that raised huge area with distinct cultures and ways of life has been erased from the political map of Asia - it is Tibet
Few people realise the scale of the Himalayas because static maps are a bad way to convey topography. Fortunately, we can use interactive maps to explore topography. Here is an example using Pyvista.
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This week the British High Commission and the University of Westminster hosted a dinner with leading #Rwandan fashion designers to co-design a collaboration to build entrepreneurship and fashion design skills.
The Syrian government says a ceasefire is enforced to end clashes between Bedouin and Sunni tribal fighters – and Druze militias. But yesterday the violence continued. Syria’s president sent forces to end fighting in southern Suwayda, where hundreds of people have been killed.
The hate-based violent conflict continues
After murdering and massacring people in Suwayda these terrorists are now looting everything and anything from their victims. The same tactic used by ISIS, with every piece of land they lost they mass looted or slaughtered everything including livestock and farm equipment which…
My first book ❤️
TIBET HISTORY STUDY. 16 BY ANAND DIBYESH -TIBET IN WESTERN IMAGINATION GEOPOLITICAL EXOTICA University of Minesota Press. Mineapolis, 2007.
One of my favourites stoles! Some ignorant racists see it as an “Arab rag” 🙄 Maybe for them Buddha was a Muslim Arab too 🙄😁 But then they are of “pick an east, any east, they are all the same” ilk! Seriously, why are bigots often so ignorant too?
Anti-Jewish hatred has a long history
On this day in 1290, King Edward I signed the Edict of Expulsion, forcing all Jews to leave England. This was the first formal expulsion of Jews from a European country. After years of persecution, blood libels, and forced taxation, England made it illegal to be Jewish. Entire…
Today we remember Nelson Mandela, a leader who opposed apartheid and became a symbol of courage, forgiveness, and hope. Mandela was South Africa's first black president. 'Madiba', as he was affectionately known, is among the great heroes of history. He was born on this day in…
A terrific piece by my friend Thupten Kelsang @V_and_A From Loot to Legacy: Rethinking “Tibetan Art” in Western Museums @britishmuseum #Tibet post.moma.org/from-loot-to-l…
And that such disinformation get tens of thousands of likes on social media tells you how widely popular these antisemitic conspiracy theorists are!
This utterly baseless claim that Jews are exempt from paying interest on loans in the US has been debunked a million times before, but every once in a while someone recirculates this lie and it goes mega viral again.
This is important work by my @Himalayas_SNU colleague @DoctorDev and @jleibold on how China is walking back from its promises of regional autonomy and gradually reducing the numbers of Tibetans occupying politically significant Party and state positions journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
Kitten 💪🏾💪🏾
Brave kitten holding his ground against a big dog
When fates of so many get determined by political calculation of a political leader
A New York Times Investigation: How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power This is the inside story, containing many details that have never been previously reported, of Netanyahu’s role in the events that led to the Oct. 7 attacks and of the way that his political…
The so-called “honour killings” are symptoms of rotten and dishonourable social setups