Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊
@nilanjanaroy
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📚💃🏽 | Otter of books | Black River | The Wildings | The Hundred Names of Darkness | Columnist, @FTWeekend | (Opinions personal) Rep'd by @DGALitAgents
New Delhi
Joined April 2009
How swiftly this year has flown by. Time to spend more time writing, less on what is still "the bird site" to me. 🌿
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Farewell Jimmy, I was in Jamaica when “The Harder They Come" was in every cinema on the island. You could feel the pride and and the love for Jimmy everywhere. The sweetest voice, the sweetest soul. His music will live with us forever! Heartfelt condolences to his family! One
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संविधान माह विशेष: जनता ने टेलीग्राम, चिट्ठियां और पैम्पलेट्स भेजकर सुझाया था कैसा हो हमारा संविधान! #ConstitutionDay #SamvidhanDiwas
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नई दिल्ली- यह एक आम धारणा है कि भारतीय संविधान पूरी तरह स��� एक अभिजात्य वर्ग (elite class) द्वारा तैयार किया गया था, जिसके निर्माण में आमआदमी की कोई भागीदारी नही
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Mofos took winter from us man. Die of shame politicians. Y’all stole India’s best season.
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+ (I remember being surprised and thrilled that 2024's Most Notable BOTY list included Vajra Chandrasekera, Salman Rushdie, Rahul Bhatia — and Black River! :))
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Nice to see Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes To Me, Megha Majumdar's A Guardian and A Thief and Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny on the NYT 100 Most Notable Books of 2025 list: https://t.co/DsyRyxeKNH
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Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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😷😷😷We could solve this if only the country was prepared to listen to experts, rein in polluting industries, and to take the environment seriously. But "pollution isn't an issue for voters". Never mind if the health bill is catastrophic ten years later.
🚨 Not a single one of India's 749 districts meets the World Health Organization's safe air quality limit for PM2.5 (CREA)
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From PM Modi's Letter on Samvidhan Diwas: "It is the power of our Constitution that enabled a person like me, coming from a humble and economically disadvantaged family, to serve as the Head of the Government continuously for over 24 years." 24 years?? 🧐
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A ‘family portrait’ of India, captured in its many languages https://t.co/suLLZgHh3l | opinion
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Granta magazine’s latest special issue on the country reflects three decades of shifting freedoms and fissures
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Trillion dollar questions here: If we remove plantations and public gardens from India's forest cover calculations, how large are India's natural forests? If we don't count forest fragments either, what %age of India is covered with functional forests? Ans: Less than 10%. Read.
Just change definitions to manage problems👇 While India has continues to lose forests, its definition of forests has become so expansive that it counts plantations and tea gardens as forests and begun including smaller and smaller forest fragments in its forest cover estimates.
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Contains multitudes :) @mariacrawford selects the best of the year's fiction. https://t.co/IvcnUvITjg
The best fiction to read this year
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The best history books to read this year
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Frederick Studemann selects his must-read titles
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Sharing herewith my latest letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, articulating my serious concerns in respect of the ongoing SIR....
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What were the best literary non-fiction titles of 2025 according to FT critics? Tap here to find out:
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Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles
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"You don’t just get sicker cities. You get poorer cities."
As toxic air forces even the privileged to flee, Delhi becomes a case study in how bad policy can hollow out a city long before anyone admits it. @Shardool_ writes. Artwork by @MANJULtoons
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