a thread / list of my bylines in 2025 - this year, i will continue writing book reviews as before. i also hope to do more proper literary/critical essays and long-form criticism. i want to do more reporting and interviews too. i definitely want to do more translations.

If you want to gift a book to someone who reads, just ask them. They have a huge list ready at all times and you will avoid gifting them a book they might never read.

after being in delhi for 2.5 years without a bookshelf, and making do with empty compartments of my wardrobes, i finally decided enough is enough. got this beauty last week and filled it up with my books. now right next to my table, where i can keep gazing at it.

Too many of you are still extremely obsessed with Harry Potter. You are adults now. Grow up and get over that transphobic bigot.

well shit… that’s my trials and yep…. those are my tribulations…. but whose monkeys are they… and why am I in a circus

"So, basically, the proposal [by Haryana government] states that if the hill/rocks are not at least 1 billion years old or greater than 100 metres in height, they don't deserve protection — feel free to do as you will with them. Such erudition beggars the imagination."

Very triggered are we, by this tweet of mine? But let us examine what happens when a bomb falls on a Palestinian house and kills a child. How many gods across the world could have stopped it had they existed, and did not, because they do not. A bomb does not appear out of thin

some time ago, a friend of mine told me she thought Israel, through the multitude of their technology tentacles, were going to try to scrub the internet as much as possible of evidence of their crimes. at the time I thought that might be an exaggeration of their capacity, but

might have to resort to twitter dms to find a boyfriend

as birthday approaches yet again with the inexorable march of time, looks like life will get spent with me just commenting "me when" "me when" on other people's reels.

Out next month, Half Light by Mahesh Rao. Set on the brink of India’s ruling to decriminalise homosexuality, this is a tender, richly atmospheric and elegantly wry story of outlawed desire and the hope of a life beyond concealment.

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, Fitzcarraldo is making the ebook of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anon collective, available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

"I wish he hadn't said anything at all, about his family and certainly not about us, insinuating what we are to each other, because though we are here now, though we hear the words spoken between us and feel each other's flesh, we will never be more than that." —Bolla

"Though their marriage had not been a solution, it had taken her away from Tollygunge. He had brought her to America and then, like an animal briefly observed, briefly caged, released her. He had protected her, he had attempted to love her." —The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri.

"He knew, even when she returned, that part of her was closed off from him. That her sense of limits was fierce. And though she seemed to have found herself, he feared that she was still lost." - The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri.

". . . Instead she used them to write rough drafts of compositions, or work out sums. Even when she was a child, each page of a diary she had yet to turn, containing events yet to be experienced, filled her with apprehension. Like walking up a staircase in darkness."

"The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator. Each year began with an unmarked diary. A version of a clock, printed and bound. She never recorded her impressions in them . . ." ~The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri

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Sally Rooney: “I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a “supporter of terror” under UK law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in Britain, and are widely available … I want to be clear that I intend to use these proceeds of my work, as well as my

Another SFF anthology that I whole-heartedly recommend from the subcontinent is the Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF. It's wonderfully curated and every single piece has so much to offer. I also interviewed the editors for @htTweets. Indie presses are truly doing great work.

Hats off to @ProfRavikantK for making use of Fanon's critical psychoanalytic inquiry into the relationship between UC men and LC women and UC women and LC men, especially at a time when thinking critically on this amounts to being cancelled for life. Ingenious work.