A Potpourri of Vestiges

Award-winning entertainment blog edited by @MurtazaCritic

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

Honoured to have moderated a highly pertinent session at the Himalayan Literature Festival 2026 on the theme 'AI and Creative Writing'

Panelists: Manjuala Narayan @utterflea, Tony Barnstone @TokyosBurning, Kathmandu Meißnitzer Heidemariem, Jane Barrett, Runa Bandyopadhyay

Moderator: Murtaza Ali Khan

📍Malla Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵

[Dhvani Desai @Dhvanidesai6]

Had a lovely talk on "Animation Storytelling : India vis a vis world" with a receptive audience at the Habitat Film Festival at New Delhi @IHCDelhi @kg_suresh

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

@USAmbIndia Ambassador Gor @USAmbIndia Just as I had predicted in my Oped that your appointment will take Indo-US relations from a position of strength to strength... more power to you!

https://t.co/FRkZwcdSj8

[Ambassador Sergio Gor @USAmbIndia]

News! Secretary Marco Rubio extended an invite on behalf of President Donald Trump, for Prime Minister Modi to visit the White House in the near future! 🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

Read the full article online:

https://t.co/V4YRYQinoJ

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

Prof. @kg_suresh's visionary leadership is playing an exemplary role in shaping up the India Habitat Centre (IHC) as India's leading intellectual and cultural hub. The grand success of the 18th edition of the Habitat Film Festival (HFF) which saw the record number of collaborations is another testament to the remarkable transformation, almost a sort of a Renaissance, that the ace institution has been witnessing ever since Prof. Suresh took over the reins... you can read more about the 18th HFF and what makes it stand apart in this week's edition of #TheSundayGuardian

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

I am particularly grateful to the medical oncology at IRCH, AIIMS for the continued support and care 🙏

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

I am particularly grateful to the medical oncology at IRCH, AIIMS for the continued support and care 🙏

[Murtaza Ali Khan @MurtazaCritic]

Thank you everyone for your kind messages and for your love, care and concern for my mother. I am happy to share that after the initial delay of 6-7 hours in treatment at the AIIMS Emergency a few days back, my mother was finally taken in and subsequently she was shifted to the IRCH ward where she was treated for post chemo side effects for a couple of days and she was discharged last evening. She is back at home and we are trying to increase her fluid intake along with the prescribed medication until the next chemo schedule. Please keep us in your prayers 🙏

[Shahzad Akhtar @ShehzadSahara]

@MurtazaCritic So sorry to know about it. Wish your mother early recovery. Allah Kareem.

[MRS RATAN KAUL 🇮🇳 @ratan_mrs]

@SanjoyRoyTWA @aiims_newdelhi @MurtazaCritic 🙏

[Amit Bhatia @amitbhatia1509]

Absolutely shameful act by @aiims_newdelhi strict action should be taken against them

[উৎপল বৰপূজাৰী Utpal Borpujari @UtpalBorpujari]

@MurtazaCritic So sorry to know about it. Wish your mother early recovery.

[aditi#freebee @aditidasnigam]

@MurtazaCritic This is so sad... Our public health system is really cracking. After the NEET expose, wondering if real doctors (with soul) are actually being produced by the system? As it is, public health infrastructure is zilch.

[Roshan Bhondekar @roshan_b]

@MurtazaCritic Dear Prem ji @PremShuklaBJP, could you please help on this matter. Cc: @CMODelhi @CPDelhi

[Sanjoy K Roy @SanjoyRoyTWA]

Dear @aiims_newdelhi I do hope someone from oncology will look at this urgently. @MurtazaCritic

[IANS @ians_india]

Chandigarh: Ambassador of Poland to India, Piotr Antoni Świtalski, says, "Today, we are opening an exhibition in Chandigarh, a beautiful exhibition devoted to the work of Maciej Nowicki, a famous architect often called the ‘architect of architects.’ He was an iconic figure in the world of architecture and a person who fell in love with India and started working on the design of the new city of Chandigarh..."

[Abhay K. @theabhayk]

“ #Africa here is not a singular story but a symphony: of civilisations and cities, of scars and splendour, of ancestry and aspiration.”—@suvirsaran in @IndianExpress
https://t.co/9E49zbOqyz

[Abhay K. @theabhayk]

The New Indian Express @NewIndianXpress today on my latest poetry collection The Alphabets of Africa published by @PenguinIndia.
https://t.co/xgC3LiKiFN

[Kartikeya @kartikeyavajpai]

During an intimate exchange at Kunzum, I shared my reflection on how thought links the present to the past through identification, pulling us away from the ever-moving now. To stay with the living present, we must simply observe it—without attaching it to our thoughts. Thinking and observing cannot happen at the same time: thought has no observation, and true observation has no thought. Observation keeps you with the moment; thinking takes you out of it.