NUS South Asian Studies Programme

16/04/2026

31/03/2026

🎨Legalizing the Indigenous Slot? state, law, and the politics of conflict over ‘indigeneity’ in India by AP Roluahpuia
📅 22 April 2026
📍AS8 #06-46
⏱ 3pm
To Register: https://roluahpuia.peatix.com

26/03/2026

Kalā ✨ — an evening of performance, culture, and reflection.

Organised by the NUS South Asian Studies Society, this South Asian Performance Night brings together a dynamic range of student groups to showcase the richness and diversity of South Asian traditions. Through dance, music, and drama, Kalā explores how culture is expressed, preserved, and reimagined across generations.

We warmly invite our South Asian Studies community to join us in supporting these student performers and engaging with the arts as a lens into history, faith, and lived experience.

🎟️ We look forward to seeing you there.

Click here for tickets: https://au.cglink.me/2sg/r378753

25/03/2026

Wrapping up the semester strong 🤎

Our own Asst Prof Bhoomika Joshi is presenting her book-in-progress "Attachments to Hurt" unpacking how hurt functions in the politics of caste elites in India and what that tells us about majoritarianism globally.

📅 Fri 10 Apr | 12–1 pm
💻 https://tinyurl.com/BhoomikaJoshi

Don't sleep on this one 🙌

𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗚 𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 | "𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝘂𝗿𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 (𝗡𝗨𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗦𝗣) | 𝗙𝗿𝗶 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗽𝗿, 𝟭𝟮-𝟭 𝗽𝗺

Don’t miss the fifth and final FASS Brown Bag Seminar of the semester, where Assistant Professor Bhoomika Joshi (NUS South Asian Studies) will present "Attachments to Hurt".

Date & Time: Fri 10 Apr, 12-1 pm

Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/BhoomikaJoshi

This presentation will focus on the key and overarching argument of Asst Prof Bhoomika Joshi's book manuscript Attachments to Hurt (work in progress). More often than not, hurt is studied as a constitutive expression of the historically oppressed and marginalized. Based on over a decade of research, the book centres on the contradictions of hurt as a social fact when it becomes constitutive of the politics of the traditionally privileged (caste) elite and its social, economic, political, and cultural life in India. In the landscape of growing concerns about majoritarianism across the world, Attachments to Hurt offers and invites ideas on what it is about the constitution of hurt that makes it available to the reification of whiteness, blasphemy, religious revivalism, and caste dominance.

Bhoomika Joshi is Assistant Professor of Contemporary South Asia at NUS. She is an anthropologist with research and teaching interests in caste, gender, mobility, and development. Her work has been published in the American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Economic and Political Weekly, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is a bilingual writer and translator, and author of a Hindi novella, Lachchhi: The Newness of Nostalgia (Vani Publications 2020).

20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak from the South Asian Studies Programme! 🌙 May this festive season bring joy, peace, and unity. 🕌✨

03/03/2026

02/03/2026

🎨Visceral Politics: Imaginaries of Power in South India by Dr Indira Arumugam
📅 27 March 2026
📍AS8 #06-46
⏱ 3pm
To Register: https://tinyurl.com/sasp-visceralpolitics

27/02/2026

19/02/2026

Wishing our Muslim friends in South Asia and beyond a month of peace, strength, and spiritual growth.

Did you know?
🌙 In countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, Ramadan traditions include vibrant night markets, special foods like seviyan and haleem, and communal prayers at grand mosques.
🌙 The crescent moon that marks the start of Ramadan is often celebrated with lanterns and decorations.

Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe.

13/02/2026

Happy Lunar New Year from the South Asian Studies Programme!
Wishing you all a year of good vibes, prosperity, and endless possibilities. Here's to new beginnings and celebrating together!