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Readers and writers: Send us your prose, your poetry, your journalism, your photography, your reviews, critiques, essays, and interviews. More on the best of Indian arts on https://t.co/p5CwFvKWRM

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Photo-Essay: The Frequencies of History https://t.co/JeaQfbMvA9

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‘I want to say ‘Hello!’ when I stroll into your bedroom with the broom in my hand. After all, why shouldn’t I? There is no tether shackling me to the whims of the oaf today.’

“This Audacious Dust” - short story by Ayaan Halder https://t.co/Hqqr1hcTvs

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In ‘Never Logged Out’, Ria Chopra presents astute observations on growing up online, Gen Z, and the Indian internet, approaching these subjects with a writer’s restraint rather than a theorist’s grandiosity. By Sneha Bengani https://t.co/hPBWxjxLPh

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This Audacious Dust
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Fiction by Ayaan Halder: ‘I could feed my children chicken and rice for a week... I could cover half a month’s rent with that money, for god’s sake! And you spend it on a wretched T-shirt that doesn’t even bear the colour of the sky?’ https://t.co/Hqqr1hcTvs

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The Fellows at the Teach for Nature Fellowship engage older children with concepts of systemic change, while the focus for the younger students is to help foster a connection to nature.

@SravastiD writes https://t.co/D9hHMQU0SO

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The Sacred and the Starved

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In ‘Quichotte’ (2019) Salman Rushdie deconstructs the motif of the quest while creating a darkly humorous, grotesque, and irreverent anti-heroic saga of a modern day mock medieval knight. By Paromita Patrabonish

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“The winter your father was born… Allah, the celebration! We grated 20 kilos of carrots. The whole of Hasan Manzil ate my gajar halwa for three days until ghee ran down their fingers.”

"Gajar Halwa" - a short story by Khadija Rehman https://t.co/yNMIgwrvI4

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‘Lohit who had just arrived in Gauhati from a rural area was a silent witness to Mr. Hazarika’s absence from home, and his total disregard for his wife and daughter as he hobnobbed with radical activists.’

The Flycatcher - personal essay by @JahnaviGogoi2 https://t.co/fJ0ZVxGRz7

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Gajar Halwa
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Short story by Khadija Rehman: “Some flowers bloom even when they shouldn’t. This one grows in cracks, drains, broken walls. Shameless little thing. You can forget about it, and it’ll still be there tomorrow.”

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Read our latest newsletter! Featuring fiction by Madhurjya Goswami, ghazals by Kartikay Agarwal, a personal essay by Jahnavi Gogoi, and much more! https://t.co/8h52u3WwVp

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‘Under the relentless sun,
beside the river that skirts the field,
she imagines herself
a bird of her own will;
only so that I may learn
how to dream.’

Poems by Siddh Dutta https://t.co/evjNj0u5Gv

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‘The necklace was divine, but she didn't believe in its divinity. She had told me that long ago. Still, she shouted and shouted and suddenly she went quiet…. She looked at me and said in a calm voice. “He took it.”

Short story by Sanchalika Das https://t.co/vrKGQkFkKT

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‘The Heart Remembers’: Two Poems by Neera Kashyap

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From its origins in the 1882 novel Anandmath, the attention of European Orientalists, and the impact on early Hindu nationalist movements, Abhimanyu Kumar traces the complicated legacy of India’s national song. https://t.co/qicbTQ7j32

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“The concept of outer and inner ecology helps children understand that everything is interconnected and interacts with each other—there is more life, more aliveness.”

How the Teach for Nature Fellowship is turning classrooms into ecosystems - @SravastiD https://t.co/D9hHMQU0SO

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Inspired by ANANDMATH's lofty ideals, the organization aimed to liberate India through armed struggle. “The young men of Bengal would mould themselves as ‘santans,’ the children of the Motherland.”

Abhimanyu Kumar on the long shadow of "Vande Mataram" https://t.co/vRG8hjA0Gf

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In Class with Nature
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At the Teach for Nature Fellowship, classrooms turn into ecosystems, where children learn about nature—as much as they learn from it. By @SravastiD https://t.co/D9hHMQU0SO

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In a wide-ranging interview, Salini Vineeth speaks about profound questions of identity in her work, switching to literature after an engineering background, writing in multiple languages, and more. By Mitra Samal https://t.co/vAWnv8nvIw