Kanupriya Dhingra
@aampannaa
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Academic. Writer. Translator. Author: Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (CUP, 2024). PhD, SOAS, University of London.
London, United Kingdom
Joined December 2013
📢 📚 It's finally here! . Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar traces the spatial politics of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market and narrates the biographies of its booksellers, presenting a story of resilience and urban dreams. Open Access for 2 weeks!
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RT @leonardjensan: In "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar," the author @aampannaa, in her introduction, describes the Daryaganj Sunday Book M….
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RT @Ram_Guha: The first four volumes in the INDIAN LIVES series, curated by me and published by @HarperCollinsIN. Each the work of an accla….
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This gives me so much joy! :').
Thanks, @TheBookerPrizes — glad to be a small part of this long-running celebration of authors, translators and great fiction. (Bring on the books!) 📚📖📚.
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Presented my working paper tracing how books, bodies, and the city’s built form co-produce Old Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazaar—a dynamic market that challenges the idea of a fixed ‘field’ and asks us to see ethnography itself as theory in motion. @CRASSHlive @Cambridge_Uni @BMLUniv
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Career Update: I've joined the School of Liberal Studies at BML Munjal University.
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RT @ChawlaSwati: On the Sunday Book Bazaar in #Hyderabad:. There’s something powerful about #secondhand or “preloved” books. Retired from l….
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Last week, delivered a keynote presentation at @CMCWsoton on all things chaotic/ecstatic in contemporary Delhi’s 'parallel'/(im)permanent book spaces.
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My browser tabs within two minutes of 'research'.
In 18th Century CE, an ingenious device was invented to help researchers and scholars manage multiple texts simultaneously. Known as a "book-holder" or "reading stand," this tool allowed users to work with up to eight open books at once. Designed to hold books open at specific
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RT @arunava: The newly launched Penguin Archive from is a dream collection of 90 books from 90 years of publishing by @PenguinUKBooks. Here….
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Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp: Selected Stories’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first work from Kannada to be on the shortlist of the International @TheBookerPrizes!. @andothertweets @PenguinIndia.
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators:
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"Now don't wonder that I read it so often". 28 March 96
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RT @RakhshandaJalil: I take great pleasure in serving on the board of the Udaipur-based Rama Mehta Trust. Each year we give a grant of Rs 2….
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