Vivek Menezes
@vmingoa
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Goa Writer + Born-again Bombayite https://t.co/i3QaRQX18g
Goa
Joined March 2009
The 10th issue of @WegandaReview appears in print & online, with essays & other writings on Uganda's Mugisha Muntu, the deadly landslide at Kiteezi, spiritual aging, death & dying, forbidden food & Dahomey's Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh. Art portfolios are by Joshua Yiga & Herbert Kalule:
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I think writer's block should be tackled the old-fashioned way. By cleaning the entire house to avoid writing a single sentence.
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Viva!
Bridging Asian Memory: Rethinking India’s Act East. My essay : https://t.co/WzzmuEKmtK in which I argue that India’s “Act East” must take inspiration from the arc of historical cosmopolitanism . Through a Goa–Macau lens we rediscover a maritime, plural heritage—one that links
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Bridging Asian Memory: Rethinking India’s Act East. My essay : https://t.co/WzzmuEKmtK in which I argue that India’s “Act East” must take inspiration from the arc of historical cosmopolitanism . Through a Goa–Macau lens we rediscover a maritime, plural heritage—one that links
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Old conversation with @vmingoa About my book Bread, Cement, Cactus. YouTube showed it as a recommendation for me. 😅 I think you might like listening too. https://t.co/7w1xNnmikg
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My latest! This is the result of a year long investigation into the dark world of #IUUfishing & slavery at sea. It exposes the complex web that lures Indian fishers to get #trafficked into Oman, to work in illegal fishing. Out on @newlinesmag Read:
newlinesmag.com
Driven from their villages by new industry rules and economic hardship, they were lured abroad and forced to work for a pittance under harsh conditions
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Send in the Trumps
#BREAKING Sources told TOLOnews that the ongoing talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey, have ended without any outcome. For more details, follow TOLOnews on social media! #TOLOnews_English
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interesting!
And its publication day! There Is A Ghost in my Room, a memoir of living with the supernatural should be getting to stores today! Thank you @HarperCollinsIN @ASuitableAgency
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"So much uncertainty in the world, but there can be no doubt about China’s ascent to the central role in contemporary geopolitics..." my Sunday @oheraldogoa Op/Ed cites @adam_tooze + includes invaluable inputs from @ConstantinoX and @pallaviaiyar: https://t.co/VliXO3craD
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Marv. Maybe one of my favourite things Shrayana's written.
https://t.co/rfJWtpqV7L Walking away from Raj.
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"So much uncertainty in the world, but there can be no doubt about China’s ascent to the central role in contemporary geopolitics..." my Sunday @oheraldogoa Op/Ed cites @adam_tooze + includes invaluable inputs from @ConstantinoX and @pallaviaiyar: https://t.co/VliXO3craD
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This is such a fantastic piece.
Wrote on how a cartel style party competition upholds the country's managed democracy, from the lens of Bihar elections. And why Prashant Kishore is like the Frankenstein monster come to feast on a hollowed out ideologically disconnected politics. https://t.co/neXI4okbFU
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I just want to let you comrades know that Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required), and there are many thousands of books 📚 https://t.co/OPMaUzDGix
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I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong
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