I highly recommend Daniyal Moeenuddin’s excellent new novel This Is Where the Serpent Lives. With its lucid prose, great storytelling and rich cast of characters of zamindars, their enforcers, and surfs it is one you won’t put down. It is a great portrait of Pakistani politics and rural life.
Richard Holbrooke would give a copy of his collection of short stories In Other Rooms Other Wonders to all AfPak principals, including Obama, as introduction to #Pakistan.
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Tips for ambitious lawyers:
1) Make lists. Anything can be managed if you chunk it up.
2) Take naps. By only sleeping for 2hours, and then another 2 hours midday, you can tackle more wrok
3) Never turn down work. They’re paying you too much to ever say no.
4) NEVER MAKE MISTAKES
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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.
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yk when you look at your coworker like you have waited a thousand lifetimes for her to love you and you will fight to see her smile every day for the rest of your life only for her to be just out of reach from you, like in every life before this one
I wrote this last week to show why the Supreme Court is wrong and how the executive and the Bar played a role in this unconstitutional censorship. Now judges and advocates are calling my university to pressure them to make me "take it down." Read here: https://t.co/AuwinKfxoV
friend's friend wrote a piece on his substack criticising the supreme court for its gag order relating to the ncert book ban, now he has received an email to take down the same because "judges, advocates of the sc and hc have been making spate of calls" and it would be in
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