Amrita

Novel in progress. masculinity studies, theory, global south lit, films, digital media, and affect

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Not sure why information and society seems like such a paradoxical pairing. I am slowly trying to transcend my reliance on any kind of image centered apps--ala the tyranny of the one thought image, which is equal parts vexing and equal parts provocative-- and mainly contain

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Del Toro and Cuaron really make the jaded heart melt ❤️ yes to everything here.

[Meher @meherness]

May we all find peers / creative collaborators and readers / champions and critics of craft / comrades, the way Iñárritu - Del Toro - Cuarón have each other.

In the face of profit-centered industry periodicals, only solidarity and a true love for the arts will show the way.

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Absolutely

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

I hope all international journalists and foreign correspondents turn their attention to India tomorrow

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Are they cancelling trains to everywhere now? This is the weekend before the biggest festival for Bengalis. How can they stop people from travelling?

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Horrifying

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

The world’s largest democracy is cancelling trains reaching New Delhi, 7000 CRPF personnel called in, a total of 23 thousand central armed police forces deployed in delhi. Not for a foreign aggression but against its own citizens who want to protest for their rights

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Nothing seems surprising anymore but shutting down the capital of the biggest democracy in the world to stop protestors got to be the biggest irony ever.

[Amrita @beatdblues]

Nothing surprises anymore

[Neha Boraa @NehaAisa]

Security Deployment notice for the 10th October has come. Here are the details.

[Amrita @beatdblues]

All the news coming out of India is so anxiety inducing but the spirit of the youth will remain unbreakable. What a profound example they are setting.

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

One important thing to understand is that the legal architecture around the right to protest in India remains colonial in its design, and the Supreme Court has been enforcing this colonial architecture since 1960. The Constitution did nothing to change this.

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

BREAKING: Many printers across Delhi are refusing to print posters etc for tomorrow's protest, citing police pressure. No trick is too dirty for the cops today.

[Neha @neha_aisa]

You can detain the people. You cannot detain the movement.

The freedom struggle did not end so today’s rulers could become the new Raj.

We are not subjects, but citizens of a Republic built on resistance, sacrifice and the promise of “We, the People.”

Jantar Mantar 2.0 continues!

[Amrita @beatdblues]

What the

[Neha Boraa @NehaAisa]

🚨 Now even Delhi Airport is being dragged into this crackdown.

Airlines have been asked to submit passenger manifests 48 hours in advance for all inbound flights to Delhi.
The government seems determined to make every possible move to suppress dissent.
DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK!

[The Wire @thewire_in]

'Nothing but a state of open emergency in this country' - @neha_aisa

#VoteChori #Protest #Delhi #India

[Neha Boraa @NehaAisa]

🚨 UNDECLARED EMERGENCY IN INDIA 🚨

People are being dragged off trains, forcibly picked up from their homes and taken to unknown locations. Even mosques are reportedly being asked to tell people not to join the protests. Is this what the police are meant to do in a democracy? The police are acting like BJP’s political machinery, not an independent force meant to protect citizens and uphold the law. DEMOCRACY IS UNDER ATTACK!

[Free Umar Khalid @FreeUmarKhalid1]

Umar Khalid has won the 2026 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, presented by Front Line Defenders. At the award ceremony in Dublin, his father spoke about his continued incarceration.

Umar has spent more than six years in prison and could not be present at the event.

[Puja Sen @psen9]

This month's @thecaravanindia cover is on the historic worker strikes that swept through central and northern India from February to June this year--and it received the most scant mainstream media attention. @ZaenAlkazi has this very important story https://t.co/4osE2rlBiQ

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The Left has lost a true giant.

Anwar Shaikh’s contributions to political economy can advance the discipline for years to come: https://t.co/QfisrjACLr

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Why are students being taken off new delhi bound trains. Is this an Emergency ?

[Neha Boraa @NehaAisa]

🚨 JANTAR MANTAR PROTEST 🚨

▪️ Trains cancelled
▪️ More than 50 Metro stations likely to be shut
▪️ Protesters placed under house arrest
▪️ Journalists placed under house arrest
▪️ More than 40,000 security personnel deployed
▪️ Roads blocked
▪️ Hotels being searched
▪️ Delhi borders under strict surveillance
▪️ Wine shops shut
▪️ Internet shutdown possible
All this for a protest.

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

Anne Carson. “You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.”

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

Activist Umar Khalid, who has now spent more than 6 years in prison, won the Front Line Defenders’ 2026 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.

The Ireland-based human rights organisation presented the award at a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday to him, in absencia.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

everything that Anne Carson has written is risky & original in some (unpredictable) way. truly an unclassifiable imagination-- poet, translator, essayist, philosopher, observer of the vicissitudes of life; we'd met just once decades ago at Princeton where Anne Carson was an instructor in the Classics Dept. & I was--hypothetically--just a "visitor" for one year in Creative Writing.
not predictable that Anne would move on, & on, & on to numerous universities & I would remain at Princeton; now hoping that she is in Canada & not caught up in toxic US politics so antithetical to the humanism & freedom of the imagination required for the soul to breathe.