About Me (Updated)

My name is Titas (pronounced with the Spanish 't' as in 'tranquila' and 'ś' instead of 's'). 
I started writing this blog when I was fourteen years, three months, eighteen days old on 3rd October 2013. I am a PhD student working on neo-fascism, neoliberal capitalism and educational inequalities based in Dublin, Ireland. I hold a MSc degree in Comparative Social Change jointly awarded by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD), and a B.A. (Hons) Sociology with a minor in Linguistics from Jadavpur University. My research interests can broadly be categorised into sociology of education, sociolinguistics, conflict studies, sociology of war, socio-cybernetics and sociology of labour.

I am a trained vocalist (in Hindustani classical music initially) and take a keen interest in singing. I am also interested in studying contemporary art in a broader sense, including visual forms of art, performance art such as dance and theatre. I have been trained in a South Asian classical dance form called Kathak and take an interest in interpreting and politicising bodily movement as an academic as well as a performer. I have worked for two distinct music labels as a reviewer over the course of the last six years. 

When not reading, I sometimes paint and write/edit content for the blog. I adore cooking and travelling towards the quieter realms of the planet, observing constellations, foliage, colours and seasons. 

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  1. (Paraphrasing A.C. Clarke) I'm too an INTP(T), and INTPs are said to question the existence of their INTP-labelling among others like that leads to it -the MBTI system (after all, where's consistent-with-that-we-know-so-far facts for its corroboration or even the statistics) ... and the primary reaction I had browsing/ sampling your blog is that you may be anything but a nerd: at all probable a lerd.

    As you are from India, may you check this, in the light of your opinions, and ... mostly opinions:
    http://www.chetanbhagat.com/columns/save-us-from-lerds/

    Good Day!
    -Ustinov.

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  2. Utopayuschiy i za solominku khvatayetsya: Three arguments to the straw:

    1> For the seeming guilt by association: I’m one from here: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ustinov.5, and the reply isn’t mine, though I wonder if the author understands its irony! I used my defunct g-plus a/c (Knon Anon) as your blog, as commenting on most blog do not work well with the tor-browser.

    2> I think, one doesn’t necessarily have to buy into a person/ organization to appreciate his/her/its arguments, however inane the person/ group may be or is. Save us from ‘lerds’ still tastes apt to my impressions, to your blog, and I came it upon by chance.

    3> Given the lack of credibility either by rest of the body of established facts/ factoids (say Barnum Effect, or say, if validated, then works based on Lövheim cube of emotion etc.) of psychology or even the statistics of the it, engaging to discuss any further on MBTI system regards to INTP etc. is pointless. I simply mentioned it as I once took such tests, -like most of us can happily mention some ‘characteristics’ of our so-called sun sign- and I had this in mind (with the pinch of the thoughts above): http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html. Here are some funny alts of INTP - Inadvertently Net Trapped Person, Inherent Need to Perfect, Incorrigibly Nagging (in) Thinking/ Thoughts Perhaps…

    Good Day/night!
    -Ustinov.

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