.@kunalkamra88 - thanks for such an informative, thoughtful and inspiring interview with the always impressive and indomitable Sudha Bharadwaj.
https://t.co/oTPfoJVzCI
Excellent new literary journal launched by vivek shanbag. What it proves yet again is that the most serious, inventive and ambitious writing, working with the most interesting material, in India is coming from the writers working in regional languages.
i was incredibly disheartened to see the remarkable ease with which the scale, complexity and human cost of nrc-caa protests were forgotten or flattened into convenient political narratives, the way people spoke about it as if they were marginal or insignificant (1/n)
We are thrilled to announce our website, 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, which offers the first-of-its-kind, multilingual, open-access online database of oceanic fictions.
We encourage scholars and researchers to contribute to this evolving project:
https://t.co/7TtvplqftB
This feels unreal, but absolutely psyched to share our new book, which I co-edited with Prof. Akshaya, is officially out now and published by Springer! Big thanks to everyone who was part of this journey!
https://t.co/I5mqGf42a1
“‘I want to be an autonomous woman,’ I kept saying to everybody”: Romila Thapar on life, teaching and what led her to history
Hartosh Singh Bal (@HartoshSinghBal), The Caravan’s executive editor, speaks to Thapar in this interview about the book, her early years, teaching at the Centre for Historical Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, reactions to her work as a public intellectual, and her approach to history.
Watch here: https://t.co/QfuCzsgseE
I spoke to Daniyal Mueenuddin about his excellent new novel, his relationship with Pakistan, writing and throwing away hundreds of pages because "it was all crap, it wasn’t working"
https://t.co/2qt8PelltB
Must Read
Siddhartha Deb (@Debhartha), a fellow writer and a New Yorker, wrote a touching (short) memoir (or a long essay) which appeared in the Equator (27th February, 2026). (Scroll down for link) (@EquatorMag)
It is about his dream of becoming a reporter to write about India’s North-East, a region forever under the military occupation of the Indian army.
He embarked on this path starting as a student at the Presidency College in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and ending up as a professor at the New School of New York. In between he spent some years in Delhi as a journalist and then as a doctoral student at the famed Columbia University under the great Edward Said (of Orientalism).
Two of his excellent books (books I liked): The Beautiful and the Damned (collection of essays from the time when India was transitioning to “free market”), and Light at the End of the World (a surreal fiction after 30-35 years under the free market regime, especially for Muslims)
I found the essay at once honest, deeply personal and about the world at large which seems to be hurtling fast towards doom. The writing, of course, is fresh and crisp.
https://t.co/paejjejQ5r