Sunil Amrith

@sunilamrith

Historian of South and Southeast Asia , 2017 , author of UNRULY WATERS, husband, father, jazz lover...

Cambridge, MA
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Joined February 2013
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    12 Dec 2018

    A review of Unruly Waters in . Thank you ⁦⁩ for your thoughtful reading.

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    14 Feb 2019

    "Unruly Waters" - my podcast with On struggles to gain mastery over water, across Asia Narratives of nationhood, ideas of conquest, mega dams, activism, regulation & climate change.. (it's action-packed, Sunil is awesome)

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  3. 14 Feb 2019

    It was so much fun to record a "Four Questions" podcast today with the wonderful

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    4 Feb 2019

    "Even radical climate change action won’t save [Himalayan] glaciers, endangering 2 billion people." But there are some things we can do to fend off the worst....check out Chapter 10 on ...(which the article doesn't mention).

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  5. 29 Jan 2019

    Thank you for a lovely book event for Unruly Waters this evening, so glad to have such a wonderful independent bookstore on our doorstep!

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    16 Jan 2019

    Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!

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  7. 25 Jan 2019

    This will be a highlight of

    Looking fwd to our session this morning Nation at Jaipur Litfest with ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦@ZEEJLF⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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  8. 25 Jan 2019

    A real privilege to be in discussion with Ornit Shani @ZEEJLF

    Book launch for ’s UNRULY WATERS.
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  9. 23 Jan 2019

    At Jaipur for , looking forward to hearing many amazing writers! The Indian ed of Unruly Waters () will be launched here tomorrow.

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  10. 21 Jan 2019

    Brilliant article on air pollution by

    Air in the Time of Oil
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  11. 21 Jan 2019

    PS. For anyone interested in the material in my piece, do check out the vital work of

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  12. 21 Jan 2019

    An extract from Unruly Waters in

    “Arguably no other part of the global climate system affects more people, more directly.” A half-century of pollution, irrigation, and farming projects in India may have destabilized the South Asian monsoon, writes .
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  13. 20 Jan 2019

    Thank you !! I’m looking forward to it very much.

    How do unruly waters shape our politics? How have people's struggles to manage water shaped the political & economic development of South Asia? I am VERY excited for my podcast with historian 🤩
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  14. 16 Jan 2019

    Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!

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  15. 16 Jan 2019

    A very important esay by

    "The great Indian migration wave, which is semi-permanent, male-dominated, and remittance-based, is the world’s largest and longest voluntary stream of migration. There are over a 100 million migrant workers in India."
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    10 Jan 2019

    Here's 800,000 years of CO2. We're over there on the far right. That line going straight up.

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    20 Dec 2018

    In the final post of this series, asks what the future might look like for workers in Asia who have been abroad on precarious contracts over decades Watch this space for updates from the field!

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    10 Jan 2019

    Breaking News: Scientists say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change

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    3 Jan 2019

    Today on LQ: An excerpt from “Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History” by , now out from .

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    2 Jan 2019

    Starting 2019 off with a bang, I suppose — new essay to share — on fluorocarbons, Teflon, & their entanglements with the bomb, with time itself — via – 💥 Bibliography + acknowledgments >>> here:

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    1 Jan 2019

    ‘The landscape of contemporary South Asia was shaped by responses to the disastrous famines of the late nineteenth century,’ historian tells about his new book Unruly Waters -

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