Bilal Moin
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Oxford • Yale • Bombay | Political-Economist, Poet & (occasional) Polemicist | The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City:
Joined June 2017
@Outlookindia gives a glowing review to 'The Penguin Book of Poems' by @TheBilalMoin. Read the full piece here: https://t.co/sJ9Ild9IRQ
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A remarkable travelogue across Indian cities through the years
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Humbled by this wonderful review by @VineethaMokkil in the latest edition of @Outlookindia
#OutlookMagazine Available on Amazon |India has six mega cities with a population of over ten million; Mumbai and Delhi are two of the ten largest cities in the world. Mass migration to cities carries on like a river in spate. If ever there was a moment to map the contours of the
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Week 30: #Nalanda: How it Changed the World at no.2 among the Indian non-fiction bestsellers. Congratulations to @manujosephsan,@SamDalrymple123, @chacchachoudhry, @DalrympleWill @ghazalawahab, @_KarenHao, @AatishTaseer and @TheBilalMoin
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'give me bhaaji, bastard' and two more poems in the latest @bombaylitmag read them here https://t.co/aGTImhYY55
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give me bhaji, bastard for Rafiq Azad and Arun Kolatkar in the belly of the beast, on a mongrel mid-day, at the pav-bhaji stand, the boiled bastard spills forth— spawn of seafaring fathers and a...
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What the selective outrage over stray dogs says about the moral compass of middle-class Indians A piece by Mohammad Aaquib https://t.co/A9VafPewAn
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It is always easier to claim a moral high ground through comfortable and safe activism that will never challenge the status quo.
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Having had the pleasure of reading drafts of this book by @arvindsubraman & Devesh Kapur, I can say—with no exaggeration—it’s one of the most —important books published on India—and development more generally—in recent memory. You can pre-order here: https://t.co/uST2eKPmYw
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Devesh Kapur & I are pleased that, after 4-5 years of researching & writing & decades of reflection, our @HarperCollinsIN book on 75 years of Indian development (A SIXTH OF HUMANITY) will be out in October Announcement: https://t.co/Z6fRQLLsUU Pre-order: https://t.co/3wpPNNAxp1
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Thank you all for the love! The Anthology has cracked the weekly National Bestseller List! @PenguinIndia @TheAsianAgeNews
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At the Bengaluru Poetry Festival yesterday, listening to @TheBilalMoin read this moving/deep/fluent-in-sorrow ghazal: "The world’s wounds fester, yet you scroll, unscathed— / Retweet! Resistance has been reduced to a form like this."
Only grass is hurt when two bulls lock horns like this. Even the sun was ashamed. Were we born like this? —Bilal Moin (Aflatoon) https://t.co/ZGkeI6EnNM
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"One must acknowledge the editor’s layered engagement with the subcontinent’s geography, history and language. The book allowed me to rejoice in the “unintended” (re)discovery, both of cities (and the ignored cultures or spaces therein), and poets..." https://t.co/DTcmaggxcp
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Suchi Govindarajan, Bilal Moin, and K Srilata bring powerful poetry rooted in language, identity, and emotion to the 9th edition of Bengaluru Poetry Festival. 📅 2 & 3 August 2025 📍 Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha 🔗 https://t.co/cQXzYLp7JM
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What makes a city-poet? In my latest Mumbai Mirror column, I write about the Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City and focus on the Bombay/Mumbai section, where memory, madness, and poetry collide. From @ranjithoskote to @akhilkatyal2, from R Raj Rao to Tenzin Tsundue, from
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It’s an honour to have the city poetry anthology reviewed in today’s @mumbaimirror @TOIMumbai by @anishgawande -- someone I deeply admire. @PenguinIndia
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Mapping Indian Cities, in Verse 'The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City' is a fine attempt to draw a cartography of the diverse and contrasting urban experiences in the country. @UttaranDasGupta✍️ https://t.co/cxmrrTA9vE
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'The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City' is a fine attempt to draw a cartography of the diverse and contrasting urban experiences in the country.
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Mapping Indian Cities, in Verse 'The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City' is a fine attempt to draw a cartography of the diverse and contrasting urban experiences in the country. @UttaranDasGupta✍️ https://t.co/cxmrrTA9vE
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"A solitary flower tumbles from the long arms of the branch and then the ovation of the unknown birds splits the rainbow of night." https://t.co/ClHWLaFWUx An excerpt from ‘The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City’, by Bilal Moin. @PenguinIndia
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An excerpt from ‘The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City’, by Bilal Moin.
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The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, excerpted in @scroll_in @PenguinIndia
‘Frequently, heaven erupts’: A new book of poetry takes readers across 37 Indian cities
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@karteakk @TheBilalMoin It's a marvellous anthology, and I'm delighted to have a number of poems in it! Many congratulations, dear Bilal!
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Bilal Moin's wonderfully edited book of poems on Indian cities published by Penguin just arrived. I've two poems, one on Srinagar and one on Dilli.
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