Claire Chambers
@clarachambara.bsky.social
'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social is coming to York from Singapogre for what promises to be another fascinating @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social talk. It's on Wed 4 June from 18.30. Do come along with your crime fiction, climate change, Asia, UK, law, postcoloniality, and other questions!
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May 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social is coming to York from Singapogre for what promises to be another fascinating @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social talk. It's on Wed 4 June from 18.30. Do come along with your crime fiction, climate change, Asia, UK, law, postcoloniality, and other questions!
Really hope you might be able to make it to the crime fiction talk by [email protected] for [email protected] on Wed 4/6 from 18.30!
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Shamini Flint Talks Crime
Take a journey through the backstreets of Asia at this in conversation event with writer Shamini Flint, best known for Inspector Singh books
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May 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Really hope you might be able to make it to the crime fiction talk by [email protected] for [email protected] on Wed 4/6 from 18.30!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shamini-fl... @farzanawrites.bsky.social @mayacaspari.bsky.social @jtwelsch.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
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Really looking forward to Kanupriya Dhingra's online talk on Friday 6 June at 16.00 UK time. All are welcome 📖
Join us on June 6 for this event where Kanupriya Dhingra discusses her book "Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar" which looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and site of resilience. buff.ly/Yzi9fbc
May 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Really looking forward to Kanupriya Dhingra's online talk on Friday 6 June at 16.00 UK time. All are welcome 📖
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💡👀A warm welcome awaits renowned author Shamini Flint at this year’s Festival in June! Best known for her Inspector Singh Investigates series, Shamini will be taking us on a journey through the backstreets of Asia at a fascinating in-conversation event.
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social
#YorkIdeas
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social
#YorkIdeas
April 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
💡👀A warm welcome awaits renowned author Shamini Flint at this year’s Festival in June! Best known for her Inspector Singh Investigates series, Shamini will be taking us on a journey through the backstreets of Asia at a fascinating in-conversation event.
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social
#YorkIdeas
@shaminiflintauthor.bsky.social
#YorkIdeas
Ever received a handwritten letter from Pakistan? Neither had I -- until last week! Read my latest blog post where I fumble through Urdu script and discover the enduring charm of snail mail in our digital duniya.
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From Karachi with Ink - 3 Quarks Daily
by Claire Chambers
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March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ever received a handwritten letter from Pakistan? Neither had I -- until last week! Read my latest blog post where I fumble through Urdu script and discover the enduring charm of snail mail in our digital duniya.
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Such a fascinating book, @sabaimtiaz.bsky.social It wasn’t easy getting hold of it in the UK, but so worth it!
On Society Girl, our podcast Notes on a Scandal, and the true crime genre in Pakistan! societygirlbook.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Such a fascinating book, @sabaimtiaz.bsky.social It wasn’t easy getting hold of it in the UK, but so worth it!
True crime in Pakistan! www.dawn.com/news/1898250...
COLUMN: ‘TRUE CRIME’ IN PAKISTAN
‘True crime’ has existed in some guise since the late 19th century, but it got its name in the 1960s. Books in...
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March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
True crime in Pakistan! www.dawn.com/news/1898250...
📚 Last summer, I got a GCSE in Urdu. I'm now pursuing an A-level thanks to a brilliant novel on the Edexcel syllabus: Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (Courtyard). Read my latest column to learn more about its characters, feminist ideas, and why it’s a must-read. 🌍✍️ @shreedaisy.bsky.social
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COLUMN: A-LEVELS URDU AND MASTUR’S AANGAN
This summer I was awarded a GCSE in Urdu. I’m now inching towards an A-level in the language. I was inspired to...
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January 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📚 Last summer, I got a GCSE in Urdu. I'm now pursuing an A-level thanks to a brilliant novel on the Edexcel syllabus: Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (Courtyard). Read my latest column to learn more about its characters, feminist ideas, and why it’s a must-read. 🌍✍️ @shreedaisy.bsky.social
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It's a new year's resolution to post on Bluesky more than my zero posts of 2024. In my defence, I've been finishing a book. In my prosecution, I'm not very good at social media. Anyway, hello world 👋
January 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's a new year's resolution to post on Bluesky more than my zero posts of 2024. In my defence, I've been finishing a book. In my prosecution, I'm not very good at social media. Anyway, hello world 👋
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Since the discussion about whether we should listen to politicians and pundits we don’t agree with seems to be happening again, I cannot emphasise enough how I’m not here for a bracing ideological workout. If I want to challenge my own ideas, I read serious journalism or books.
It’s exactly this. I’m here for fun. I’m not getting paid. It just livens up my day to have a bit of chat with some nice, entertaining people and see Moo Deng memes.
The thing that all these “Bluesky is an echo chamber” takes leave out is that most of us aren’t here for political or philosophical debates with strangers.
Mostly it’s to socialize with friends and talk shit about stupid things. Having a Nazi yelling at you doesn’t enhance that experience.
Mostly it’s to socialize with friends and talk shit about stupid things. Having a Nazi yelling at you doesn’t enhance that experience.
November 18, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Since the discussion about whether we should listen to politicians and pundits we don’t agree with seems to be happening again, I cannot emphasise enough how I’m not here for a bracing ideological workout. If I want to challenge my own ideas, I read serious journalism or books.
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Super helpful “Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky” by one of my brilliant colleagues who works at the University of York Library 👇
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
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It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Super helpful “Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky” by one of my brilliant colleagues who works at the University of York Library 👇
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Delighted to share that my other institutional home, the University of York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, is now also on BlueSky. #c18th #interdisciplinarity
👋 Hello! Welcome to the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. We’re a welcoming and convivial centre for interdisciplinary eighteenth-century studies. Happy to see everyone in bluer skies.
November 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Delighted to share that my other institutional home, the University of York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, is now also on BlueSky. #c18th #interdisciplinarity