Rupinder Kaur

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

Over the many years I've known Anand Teltumbde, I've always admired and carried with me his remarkable friendship, warmth, courage, and kindness. It gives me so much joy to announce his newest book - likely his most vulnerable and tender yet - his prison memoir, ‘The Cell and the Soul’

I will be eternally grateful to the incredible Arundhati Roy for making time to read advance proofs of Anand’s book and send her endorsement in the lead-up weeks to her own memoir on her mother. Also to @tmkrishna, @Ram_Guha and Shanta Tai, all of whom generously agreed to endorse this heartbreaking and powerful book.

As most of us know, Anand Teltumbde entered the Taloja Central Prison as accused number 10 in the Bhima Koregaon case and spent 31 months as an undertrial until he was released on bail. As an intellectual who was stripped of his freedom, he lays bares the chilling realities of India’s prisons in his gut-wrenching prison memoir. Part memoir, part diary, The Cell and the Soul is a descent into the heart of India’s carceral state, ripping open the belly of the beast-the prison industrial complex-and exposing the brutal, pulsating injustice within.

From the echoing silence of his cell, Teltumbde writes of a heartless state that criminalises dissent with political imprisonment, of the relentless grind of injustice, and the profound cost of speaking truth to power. His prison writing is but a synecdoche for thousands of nameless, faceless undertrials who languish in India’s jails.

This is a raw, unvarnished testament of a man incarcerated for his convictions, a powerful indictment of a democracy devouring its own. Rare is writing so tender and searing it dares us to confront the darkness within each of us and seek our own freedoms.

It has been a real privilege to collaborate with @siddheshgautam on this stunning cover.

The book is out of pre-order now and you can get a copy here: https://t.co/XfqnHXmxdA

[Sumedhapal @Sumedhapal4]

What fun and queer joy working on this stunning story for @BBCHindi on Delhi’s queer and built heritage history that we often show inattentive blindness to. While ‘pride month’ may be over, may we continue to honour our histories and queer ancestors through all seasons.

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

It gives me so much joy to announce ‘India and Her Futures,’ the newest book of essays by the phenomenal Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Rare is voice so unique, a truthteller so lucid and an intellectual whose gifted voice has helped many make sense of the India we have come to inhabit and an India to come. My joy is only doubled to be conversation with him at the upcoming Mysuru Literature Festival this weekend.

Out on pre-order now, this is your chance to dive into a once-in-a-generation writer and his life-work.

Pre-Order here: https://t.co/3LSQbgKIBQ

[Rupinder Kaur @rupsydaisy]

RT @chiraghthakkar: When I asked @poonamjourno to consider doing a book on the beast that is the Indian general election and #electoralbond…

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

I write for @scroll_in on the labour it takes for us to reclaim our attention economies and the need to engage with our biospheres in response to Thukral & Tagra’s new art show ‘Arboretum.’

@NatureMorte
@tajmahalfoxtrot
@Thukralandtagra

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[Lancelot Pinto @lancelot_pinto]

Montelukast is widely prescribed in India, and sales appear to be rising. This is despite several reported adverse effects, including nightmares, depression, death by suicide. Sanjitha Muneeswaran and I make a case for stricter regulations @the_hindu 1/n

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

What is it about #ArundhatiRoy’s writing that scares governments, heads of states, ideologues, political parties, corporations, oligarchs, the state apparatus, religious zealots, bigots, dictators, & many a liberal?

I write for @TheQuint

https://t.co/r3F1jxIeke

@shellywalia

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

I write for the @TheQuint on the phenomenon that is Orry to make sense of his moment in sun, and our obsession with celebrity culture.

Orry, Not Sorry | https://t.co/QkO7D8VomM

@wannabhistorian

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

Do join us for the launch of @abhishekanicca’s brilliant memoir ‘The Grammar of My Body’ at @kunzum next weekend. 💚

@jayapriya88
@RadhikaShah97

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

A career highlight for me to be publishing @abhishekanicca’s breathtaking memoir-in-essays about everyday stories of living with disability & chronic illness. Out of ‘International Day of Disabled’ this weekend, it’s on pre-order.
Show us some love & help RT this ❤️
@parodevi

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

🪔 It’s #diwali season & I cannot recommend enough the perfect gift of the season, a book I’ve had the great pleasure of publishing. In ‘Triveni’ the latest collection of poems by one of my dearest writers #Gulzar sa’ab are poems that will stay with you forever 🪔

[Rupinder Kaur @rupsydaisy]

Did a thing. Go read?

[Logically @LogicallyAI]

Between Jan-July 2023 Logically tracked Chinese propaganda and disinformation efforts targeting India’s domestic incidents, including #OdishaTrainCrash,#BiharBridge Collapse, the renaming of districts in Arunachal Pradesh, the eviction of journalists, and #Manipur violence
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[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

I write for @scroll_in on the new art show that’s currently on @nmacc_india ‘Run as Slowly as You Can.’

https://t.co/Nj5MSbukYV

[— @aasthadayal06]

Despite the UN report claiming grave human rights violations in Xinjiang, what is the Chinese propaganda towards Xinjiang? And who is helping them? I try to answer some of these questions in this report!

[Hamsini Hariharan @HamsiniH]

How did Chinese and Russian state actors react to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse? And what does this have to do with dedollarisation? @KyleWalter_ and I write for @Diplomat_APAC!

Comments and Brickbats welcome :)

[Radhika Roy @royradhika7]

Irony died a thousand deaths today.

[Chirag Thakkar @chiraghthakkar]

Hosting these fantastic discussions this weekend @kunzum for @PenguinIndia with #RuthVanita @KirpalSaurabh & #DhruboJyoti, and a session with #HoshangMerchant
Do try and make it if you’re in town this weekend. 🏳️‍🌈
@premanka

[Logically @LogicallyAI]

After the arrest of Amritpal Singh Sandhu, Logically has identified disinformation narratives originating from India's two neighbors promoting a pro-#Khalistan stance. Here's the details and get our full report here https://t.co/y1d7ob4hUc

[Rupinder Kaur @rupsydaisy]

@SubhaChugh Yes! Can I DM you?