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!
30 Apr 2024
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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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?
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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…
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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…
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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
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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.
22 Aug 2025
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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17 Aug 2025
#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
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Just a friendly reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Do drop in!
21 Jul 2025
📕#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…
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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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16 Jul 2025
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
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Exciting lecture series by @_ISHET on the history of econ thought by Chirashree Das Gupta. Interested in concepts like rent and capital in different economic traditions? This is for you. On 14th, 21st, 28th June, and 5th July. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Many thanks to @DialoguesHG for hosting this book review forum on "Corruption Plots" featuring reviews by @joseatiles, Sushmita Pati (@PostitAcademic), and Rachel Sturman. Here was our response, which speaks to the current conjuncture of rightwing politics everywhere. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Bit of a latepost. But what a fun and heartwarming week this was! We got to engage with new ideas on urban research and talk about writing. Thank you to all the WUI mentors and @USForg for the support.
29 May 2025
Glimpses from the workshop hosted by the #HUPAChair for Urban Poor and the Law at NLSIU, in collaboration with Writing Urban India Collective and @USForg from April 7 to 11, 2025, as part of the Writing Urban India Fellowship 3.0. Know more: nls.ac.in/news-events/writin… #ThrowbackThursday #WritingFellowship @MoHUA_India @MuktaNaik @PostitAcademic @onneshaghosh @GautamBhan80 @NandsG12
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Just wanted to share this absolutely lovely message by Ali Khan @Mahmudabad s students, from his ‘Banish the Poets’ class:
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