In this gap years of the pandemic, the proliferation of webinars and podcasts are a significant oral history register in the making for future historians and social scientists. Instagram is a life history archive of the everyday.

Saturday Evenings with Thinnai Matinee with Ari Anna and Prof Ananya led ground up globally networked Creole Cultures Research Initiative ‘Le Thinnai Kreyol’. Today the conversation focused on French-Bengali Connections with Prof Annu from NUS and Mr. Joy Banerjee. Great fun lah as always on many levels.

This one is closer ‘home’ as i am a NUS alum, have worked there as well in migrant worker research at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.

Good convergence on issues hardly spoken about in popular culture anymore such as the horrid Bengal Famine. And the French in the seminar with three Bengali speakers is not an issue really as I grew up listening to French Rai Music in Muscat. French is a pleasant language like Bangla.

I start a PhD soon pandemic permitting.

This wallet has been with me for 7 years across geographies. A sturdy Hugo Boss Limited Edition Wallet bought from the Orchard Road Singapore Store, has been a living remainder of material memory of days gone by!

🇸🇬❤️ is missed, always will be.

The AGAPS Digital Dialogue on ‘Teaching The Gulf’ with Prof Fahad Bishara @TheNakhoda moderating the cozy session with Dr Noora Lori and Dr Ahmed. It was an all star audience with my intellectual hero’s such as Mandana Limbert and Andrew Gardner! Enriching ❤️

26th November 8pm Singapore time on the Global Migrant Festival Facebook page

It’s nice to be cited in an academic research paper on Dubai by Emirati Scholar @Rana_AlMutawa which breaks new ground on understanding the city’s urban canvas.

The year when ‘The Mask’ became quotidian as the handkerchief to be sold at the tapri, or the local corner shop.