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Journalist, educator & literary critic. ✍️ Kirkus Reviews, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Hindu, Himal, Deccan Herald, OPEN, Queerbeat, among others.

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Happy summer solstice to everyone reading this! May we treat all sentient beings with respect and love. The photograph is from Nainital. ❤️
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RT @Sravasti_Abbey: Please join Tibet House US in celebration of His Holiness the @DalaiLama's 90th birthday with a live, complete reading….
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RT @rikshaa: Position open in our project on community-engaged understanding of and action on air pollution in small North Indian towns. Ap….
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Happy Guru Poornima!.
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RT @ghudsavar: Anyone know of a literary agent who is open to picture book writers with stories that are humorous but have an indirect (pol….
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RT @chaikebaad: It always strikes me as funny when peoples activism and interest stops at humans, theyll wholeass see animals tortured but….
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Muttering prayers in my parents' chai while watching it boil is my love language. I don't know if this qualifies as metta practice according to tradition but I allow myself to reimagine and reinvent. There is so much to learn about gratitude to parents from the Buddha's own life.
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"What gives me hope for the future is not a change of heart by the governments but growing action and protest by civil society," says historian Avi Shlaim in this interview with me for @htTweets.
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RT @gaachburi: bangali people on my feed -- for a project, looking for music and literature to do with the rain/monsoon season in bangali c….
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RT @htTweets: “The source of funding might distort research priorities”. Nobel laureate, Venki Ramakrishnan, on his latest book, 'Why We D….
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RT @RabaniGarg: This is your cat content recommendation for the day.
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I interviewed scientist and Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan for @htTweets. His book, Why We Die, is published by @HachetteIndia. Our Q&A was edited by @utterflea.
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RT @livinapress: This special issue will be different in that there will be no fiction submissions, but instead space for personal views, a….
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RT @thirdeyeportal: 📢 #JobOpportunity We're looking for an Assistant Editor for our English vertical. This is a full-time position in Delhi….
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RT @daya894: Yay 🎉.
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RT @saurabhsherry: PITCH CALL.@IndiaSpendHindi.is looking for story pitches in Hindi from Bihar on voter list revision. If you have a pitch….
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RT @Saumya_Kalia: 🌸 Looking to speak with researchers working on the caste dynamics within the platform economy. And if you know of any loc….
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I am on @SubstackInc now. Here are my thoughts on a lovely book about cats, written by Daya Subramanian and illustrated by Divya George for Daffodil Lane Books. I hope you enjoy reading.
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RT @bsindia: #Opinion | As the #DalaiLama turns 90, @chintanwriting traces his journey into exile, #India’s role in supporting Tibetan refu….
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Here's my interview with British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim for @htTweets. (Edits: @utterflea). Shlaim is the author of a book called Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, published by @OneworldNews.
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It was an honour to be invited by @bsindia to write a piece celebrating the 90th birthday of the 14th @DalaiLama. (Edits: @Rajesh_views and Amrita Singh)
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