Rahul Singh
@rahulzsing
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I read books and I write about them. Asst Prof. | PhD | Sociology | Fiction | Urban Soc
Kolkata, India
Joined December 2016
My article on rainfall in urban neighbourhoods of Bengal in out in @IJURResearch 's latest issue. I have so many people to thank but would just say I am grateful to publish my research in such a prestigious journal. Please consider reading and sharing across. #urban #academi
In this article, @rahulzsing analyses the phenomena of ‘unnatural rain’ in Bengal’s twin-cities. He argues for peripheral centrality to help in dealing with the cities’s polycrisis https://t.co/oA6e49IaNr
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"Timely, urgent and deeply unsettling, it comes at a time when queer rights continue to be contested both in domestic spaces and governing bodies," writes Rahul Singh. Read more: https://t.co/jNAylWgfOl
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I wrote about Mahesh Rao’s HALF LIGHT for @scroll_in . @PenguinIndia @PushkinPress @sorcerical #books #BookReview #gay #fiction
https://t.co/xG1niSevFd
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Rao also writes about hope as much as he writes about the melancholy of being in a structurally unequal relationship.
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A new short story of mine is out on @foglifterpress . I wrote this in 2024, and thought it’d be another story onto the rejected pile but it had other plans, it seems. Only available in print for now. #shortstories #published #magazine #story
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Hugely looking forward to this being out in early 2026. It is a labor of love and a wonderful collaboration
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This year I will not do a #bestbooks of the year but I am thoroughly enjoying watching other people’s lists and smiling at books I have enjoyed as well. #books
New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading. Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookTwitter #BooksOfTheYear #TuesdayBookBlog #Books #booktwt
https://t.co/oBkBNCoMWe
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I remember devouring Kinsella’s books when I had just finished school. They were such pleasures. The only chick-lit I read without a guilt. She makes you laugh, smile and feel giddy with excitement with every book of hers. What a loss! #booktwt #sophiekinsella 💔
Breaking News: Madeleine Wickham, who wrote the “Confessions of a Shopaholic” novel series under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, becoming an international sensation, died at 55. Read more: https://t.co/K13k2RqulX
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South | Oxford Academic- just out with my chapter on decolonial feminism in transnational times.
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Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad
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I am thrilled to share the 1st ch of my thesis as a journal article. I give a historical account of #Kolkata ‘s drainage infrastructure to understand the city through its infrastructural polity. #urban #History #PhD #thesis
@SagePubIndia @SAGEPublishers
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This book is meant for every kind of reader; it is bound to impress all. The republication comes at an urgent time when literary fiction and the short story form seem to lose their hold over the readers. https://t.co/R8yCbIbjjZ Rahul Singh✍️
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My thoughts on this gigantic reissue of Daphne du Maurier’s haunting stories out on @scroll_in Grateful and gobsmacked, as always by her! The intro by @StephenKing is apt and perfect. @HachetteIndia @ViragoBooks
#books #BookTwitter #BookReview
https://t.co/kJ3F2EdsID
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In the 13 stories by du Maurier, there is always space for a laugh, a scare, and an active imagination that can run through this genre.
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I have written an essay on the Pujas for the new Granta India issue to accompany Dayanita Singh’s arresting photographs of pandals:
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‘Common wisdom had it that the Pujas were to be explored after midnight, since the press of the crowds was intolerable in the evening.’ Amit Chaudhuri on the Durga Puja festival and Dayanita Singh’s...
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I bought this book from a secondhand store and turned the page over to find that the person who had read the book had written in pink ink, 'Utterly waste. No logical explanations. Wasted a good story.' #books #BookTwitter #fiction #sadism
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I reviewed Daisy Rockwell’s clever novel for @scroll_in . I had a lovely time reading this and being lost in Alice’s mad, funny, hyperactive spells. #books #booktwt #BookReview #BookTwitter #spookymonth #horror @BloomsburyIndia
https://t.co/jLhXwAfVHN
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Strange, mercurial, and yet heartening, the novel establishes Rockwell as a chronicler of stories and ideas through ghosts, spirits and pasts.
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This captivating review of Alice Sees Ghosts by Daisy Rockwell reminds us of what an absolutely riveting read Rockwell’s latest book is 📖 Read more here: https://t.co/8KSw6z6lE8
#AliceSeesGhosts #DaisyRockwell
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Strange, mercurial, and yet heartening, the novel establishes Rockwell as a chronicler of stories and ideas through ghosts, spirits and pasts.
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If there is one novelist, who very quietly leaves the reader dismembered with every book of his, it is none other than Abdulrazak Gurnah. I wrote about his latest. #books #booktwt #BookReview @BloomsburyIndia @NobelPrize
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I reviewed Kiran Desai’s THE LONELINESS OF SONIYA AND SUNNY ahead of its publication for The New Indian Express. link in bio. @HogarthBooks @PenguinIndia @TheBookerPrizes @xpresstn #booktwt #BookTwitter #bookreview
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I wrote about Benjamin Wood’s dazzling little book nominated for the @TheBookerPrizes ! This better be shortlisted 😤 #booktwt #BookTwitter @htTweets @utterflea @PenguinIndia
https://t.co/1u25K8h2M6
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A portrait of a young man living in a desolate seaside town in 1960s Britain, this Booker longlisted novel thrives in the observation of details
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"A portrait of a young man living in a desolate seaside town in 1960s Britain, Seascraper is full of piquancy and softness. The writing... is a treat" - @rahulzsing reviews the Booker longlisted Seascraper by Benjamin Wood https://t.co/m6ua6IVlcz
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A portrait of a young man living in a desolate seaside town in 1960s Britain, this Booker longlisted novel thrives in the observation of details
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