Subhi

Aloha!!! Writer and aspiring academician.

[Westland Books @WestlandBooks]

An urgent, provocative study that traces how India's early constitutional choices enabled today's majoritarian turn.

Javed Gaya’s Heartland Rising (internationally released as Majoritarianism in India) is available in major bookstores and online.

[Economic & Political Weekly @epw_in]

EPW Engage | The authors, through this article, try to explore the discrimination and humiliation faced by transgender people in an Indian prison.
https://t.co/PxfdePCtJR

[Bookworm Bookstore, Blr @bookworm_Kris]

Now available! Umar Khalid's Fractured Communities -- the history of Adivasi communities of Singhbhum, Jharkhand. Brilliantly argued, it is both a valuable work of history & critique of histories written from positions of power. This groundbreaking research is now available as a book for the first time. We have exclusive signed copies. Order yours from Bookworm today!

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Brittle Paper’s June reading list celebrates 15 queer African books that have shaped a literary movement. From Eloghosa Osunde’s NECESSARY FICTION to Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s BLESSINGS. Your summer reading list is here! 📚 https://t.co/ZbnlNcbK1n

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The most underrated illustrator you’ve probably never heard of: Guy Billout

Born in 1941 in France, Guy Billout is a master of visual irony who has spent decades subtly challenging our perception of reality. After beginning his career in advertising in Paris, he moved to New York in 1969, where he was discovered by legendary designer Milton Glaser. His career soon took off, and he became especially known for his 24-year run at The Atlantic, where he was given remarkable editorial freedom to create single-page illustrations that appeared ordinary at first glance—until a single impossible detail turned the entire scene on its head.

His work is heavily influenced by the ligne claire (“clear line”) style popularized by Hergé, featuring crisp outlines, subtle gradients, and minimalist compositions. Beneath their calm, architectural precision, Billout’s illustrations are deeply philosophical and quietly surreal. His work has earned him a place in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame and inclusion in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. By using visual “glitches” as a storytelling device, Billout reminds viewers that even the most orderly worlds can be undone by a single poetic disruption.

[Subhashini Ali @SubhashiniAli]

Umar Khalid's PhD Thesis on Jharkhand's Adivasis Is Now a Book. Read What It Is About https://t.co/ZTrf0VVkP6

[Saraba Magazine @Sarabamag]

We are pleased to introduce the Saraba Manuscript Service, designed for writers seeking rigorous, thoughtful editorial engagement for their short-form or book-length work. Visit our website to learn more about this service.
https://t.co/9Hmqxah6Eo

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is exactly how it’s supposed to be.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Umar Khalid’s brilliant PhD thesis has just been published as a book. It is a rigorously researched and richly readable history of Adivasis in Chotanagpur. May his cruel incarceration end soon, and Dr Khalid write more fine works of historical scholarship.
@juggernautbooks

[Auswaf @auswaf]

A novel on human relationships
@tranquebar @WestlandBooks
@EOtherBooks

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

For #WorldRefugeeDay here's Gillen D’Arcy Wood on how a volcano explosion in 1816 led to “The Year Without Summer” and a humanitarian crisis that saw many die and climate refugees in the tens of thousands roam the highways of Europe: https://t.co/sN6GY5qRkI

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | Through forgotten archives and overlooked clues, Carlo Ginzburg recovered the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people whom history had pushed to the margins, and historians read beyond official narratives.

Himadri Sekhar Mistri ✍️

https://t.co/s7TZKEcmHJ

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Bangladesh’s tigers are now found only in the Sundarbans. But the country is considering a plan to translocate them to the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a rugged landscape with possible links to forests in India.

Experts say the idea is ambitious — but difficult, costly and in need of careful study, writes @deepanwita_t

Read more in Gazebo, Down To Earth's weekend edition
https://t.co/rrgySuhCLN

#Tigers #Bangladesh #Sundarbans #ChittagongHillTracts #WildlifeConservation #IndiaBangladesh #ClimateChange #Mangroves #Biodiversity

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

A sustainable future depends on choices made today.

#GEO7, the most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken, outlines the five transformations needed to protect nature, strengthen societies, and build a healthier planet.

Find out more: https://t.co/oHifFb0f5X

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

🎙️ 'If we do not tell our own stories, others will' - Ana Pararajasingham on Uprooted

When Ana Pararajasingham set out to gather the stories of thirty-four Eelam Tamils scattered across the world, it was out of a worry that the history behind their displacement was already fading, even within the diaspora itself. His book, Uprooted: Stories from the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, presents those lives not as isolated accounts of personal success but as the record of a people driven from their homeland who went on to rebuild elsewhere.

He spoke to the Tamil Guardian about the process behind the book.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Mental illness accounted for nearly half of India’s illness-related suicides in 2024, shows State of India’s Environment 2026: In Figures.

NCRB data reveal rising mental health-linked deaths even as overall illness-related suicides fall, with Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka contributing almost half the cases, writes @KiranPande4976

https://t.co/GrJ2lYcoTi

#mentalhealth #suicide #NCRB #suicidesDueToIllness

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

On this day 41 years ago, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, and Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli 🇯🇵✨

[Sumana Roy @SumanaSiliguri]

How many trees are there in the Mona Lisa? From Ways of Seeing to Ways of Treeing. My essay in the Indian Express today.
https://t.co/hUCbqxuPQn

[Economic & Political Weekly @epw_in]

Ambedkar’s constant presence in vernacular publics speaks about caste as an existential wound and not merely a conceptual category.
Rajat Roy writes in EPW Engage:
https://t.co/XoAk0TXb4t