The purpose of good art is to suspend time in the midst of performance. The Grammy Winning Sahrawi Desert Blues Band, Tinariwen took KL to a tour of the Sahara Desert through the exhilarating music. I grew up on Rai Music in Muscat, and the melodic vocabulary was familiar this evening.

KL is a major cultural hub of the Nusantara, and the Palestinian flag shash around the lead singers neck, showed solidarity in with the humanitarian crisis.

Excellent work by the @senipusaka team to bring KL back on the cultural map of the region.

The energy on the floor was infectious.

@ek.isatsea @pauline.pusaka

The hidden transcript of the transition should be considered on a day which was historically significant in terms of calling for a move away from fossil fuels.

There is a brazen tendency to sweep the problematic resource politics feeding the transition, the lithium and the copper that goes into solar panels, transmission wires and the long storage batteries.

Recently, I had the honour to speak at the International Conference on South East Asian Studies at the University of Malaya on a session on food! I presented my research from my long term research project on Subaltern Migrant Infrastructures. My paper was based my work in SE Asia and Mumbai over the past year.

A traditional mess, with the best Ghee Thosai ever. A space time compression which transports one to a mess in Kumbakonam or Viruthanagar.

Tamizh Transnational Food Scapes in the Nusantara.