My debut novel 'Unfolding' is out in the world today with @HarperCollinsIN . A work of years, between many other things. I send my characters who have been mine for more than half a decade to you. Buy wherever you get books.
#debutnovel@kan_writersside
On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of The Corpse
Collector by Vinu P and Niyas Kareem, and Unfolding by @rahulzsing + an interview with Tishani Doshi, author, Egrets, While War.
Unfolding stays attentive to the uneven ways love is lived and negotiated across different lives. It's marked by an unassuming clarity that never strains for effect, allowing the emotional weight of the stories to emerge with remarkable ease. https://t.co/Vsr9fa6kAY
✍️Diya Sengupta
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'In his debut novel, Singh not only writes about queer and working-class lives, but also turns his attention to a version of Kolkata less commonly explored in contemporary fiction.'
Love this review of UNFOLDING on @scroll_in@kan_writersside
https://t.co/jMs0ohWv8c
My sixth Eliot! One of my favourite writers. Her most political novel that she wrote over a long sickness and thought she’d never see the end of it.
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Exceptional writing reshapes how we see the world. This #PrideMonth, discover books that explore identity, belonging and love in all their complexity. Spanning memoir, poetry, literary fiction, travel writing and speculative fiction, these books examine what happens when who we are meets who we’re expected to be—and the courage it takes to forge a path towards our truest selves.
Discover the complete list on @harperbroadcast: https://t.co/jbtoHIsBur
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Red Road in Kolkata (where the Eid namaz was forbidden in the name of no blockage to public infrastructure for religious or cultural purposes) has been shut for days now in preparation for #WorldYogaDay by the present government. This should be noted.
#bengal#yoga
📚✨Book News! ✨📚
The Sunday Book Bazaar: Daryaganj and the Making of a Reading Public in Delhi is now available on The Speaking Tiger website and for pre-orders on Amazon.
In bookstores on 25 June.
@swatiatrest Umm, right but the idea of a bodhrolok is very much oriented in caste . Class only aided in reproducing it under the guise of Bengal’s claim of castlessness; that’s what historical and sociological studies on caste in Bengal attest. Bhodrobitto is an apt term!
@swatiatrest Yes, like the Indian Middle Class, the Bhadrolok continues to remain a contested category. Sociologically, it is a caste marker that has now merged with class to reproduce caste as a capitalist group.
While June shouldn't be the only month you read queer lit, but if you've still not read UNFOLDING and many other fantastic books from this curated list by @mid_day Mumbai, you ABSOLUTELY must.
https://t.co/Ll2wQHjF4o
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