Sumedha Das

Books distract me. Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Or you were wrong all this time as you were wrong on almost everything? Maybe some introspection is in order. Just a thought.

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Great writing 👇

[Kapil Komireddi @kapskom]

My review of Sonia Faleiro's powerful new book in this month's @Lit_Review.

https://t.co/WjM4xuLC9f

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Opened this account of mine after a LONG time. The trigger has been the #EpsteinFiles. The oft-repeated case of Russian women being deployed by the criminals only points to the malfeasance of those neoliberal economists whose "shock therapy" policies destroyed Russia.

[Granta @GrantaMag]

Congratulations to Han Kang, winner of the 2024 @NobelPrize in Literature!

In honour of this achievement we have lifted the paywall on her writing for Granta.

https://t.co/FwYECQAUjK

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Absolutely adore Proust's answers to these questions in 1890

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Many Indians forgot this heinous terrorist attack, as always happens with passing time, but Canada has made them remember it with new vitality. 👇

The problem with India is that it has a tendency to become a clown in front of the whole world w/ its assassination techniques.

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

Today marks the 39th anniversary of one of the worst acts of terrorism in history.

Pay my homage to the memory of the 329 victims of AI 182 ‘Kanishka’ who were killed this day in 1985. My thoughts are with their families.

The anniversary is a reminder why terrorism should never be tolerated.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://t.co/koxgcemjp7

[Amitava Kumar @amitavakumar]

I lost my father last year. When asked to name five best books about fathers, this is what I came up with: https://t.co/M0pvIV9beT

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Here's a 1931 piece of @newrepublic's about what Joyce's birthday party looked like, that @johnstonglenn shared here, which I'm reposting:
https://t.co/0n9aerckZ8

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

A bit late in wishing greetings on the occasion of #Bloomsday. I was extremely busy since morning but here I am now with one of Joyce's story from his book DUBLINERS, which I will be re-reading today. I like this story's meditation on Church the most, among other things. ❤️

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

The genius of James Joyce: Sin, guilt and the redemptive power of laughter https://t.co/GBirReWExB

[Keiron Pim @KeironPim]

Today I did something extraordinary that Covid prevented while I was writing my Joseph Roth biog: I held his personal papers at the Center for Jewish History in NYC. Here’s the handwritten first page of his greatest novel & his copy of the sheet music to Strauss’s Radetzky March.

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Listen to this with your earphones on to get the maximum bliss that one gets after hearing Cillian's voice. ❤️

(It would have been better without the background music.)

[Irish Literary Times @IrishLitTimes]

Before Yeats's birthday comes to a close, why don't we hear "When You Are Old" read by Cillian Murphy.

https://t.co/rsxRBMGtwT

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚

More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead

👉 https://t.co/vKaRSR5Tmu

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

@frankendodo @neilhimself @PembrokeOxford Will there be a recording of it on YouTube?

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

The story of Ulysses unfolds through the food that Leopold Bloom eats as he travels around Dublin by day and night.
https://t.co/9j2R3XHnDo

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Elon's latest stunt regarding likes...🤦‍♀️

[Jane Austen First Drafts @Austen1stDrafts]

“And then, Louisa, he said he would hide the likes, so the rest of us can’t see who engages with fascist content!”

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

Water war, a stuff of dystopian and sci-fi novels is a reality now.

After Bengaluru, Delhi is in a dire water crisis and the political class won't do anything about it much like it doesn't do anything about Delhi's becoming a gas chamber in the winter.

[ANI @ANI]

Delhi water crisis | Supreme Court questions over tanker mafia and asks Delhi Govt if any measure or action has been taken against tanker mafia.

Supreme Court remarks if you are not taking any action against the tanker mafia then we will ask Delhi Police to take action against them.

[Sumedha Das @sumedhadas97]

😂😂😂😂😂

This robot is like the cheap Chinese products that flood our Hatibagan in Kolkata. There is no way through which India can disentangle itself from the curse that it took upon itself willingly in 1988.

[Bin Xie @bxieus]

Chinese police force was showing off their new member — an armed robot, then this happened

I blame @BostonDynamics for not making their products open source.