Sonal Shah

Editor @infatuation NYC | Wrangled words and people @viceindia @TheCaravanIndia @TimeOutDelhi @travelleisure @ngtindia.

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

Ongoing work-in-progress list of books set in or about Delhi. Just leaving this here - please suggest any I've missed #DelhiBooks
https://t.co/qd1T7LTTxR

[All Of It With Alison Stewart @AllOfItWNYC]

Today: Chocolate chip cookies with @toutress @infatuation, Paulie Gee's pizza cookbook, BBQ tips from @meathead, What to cook when you don't want to show up at the party empty handed

Live at noon on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org

[EMILY SUNDBERG @Emily_Sundberg]

Niche but a lot of people texted me about this today.........

[Gus Saltonstall @GusSaltonstall]

A very unfortunate update on Absolute Bagels.

Rafe Evans, the broker of the property, confirmed that Absolute Bagels is permanently closing, and that he will list the space at the end of next week.

"And we all agree another bagel store is the highest and best use of the space.”

[The Infatuation @infatuation]

We are flattered that @TheBearFX producers took the time to painstakingly mock up our site. Fortunately, restaurants are no longer closing due to Covid-19, but we do have an Italian Beef guide that you might be interested in? https://t.co/dZnDMZ7Ytw

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

A huge loss. I learned so much from Patrick about biography. And even more about cultivating active curiosity and unerring positivity against all odds. I will miss his intellect and his kindness.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Patrick French. He was a wonderful writer, whose books on Francis Younghusband and VS Naipaul are classics of modern biographical writing. He was also a very fine human being, unfailingly generous to friends and strangers alike.

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

For months I have been investigating how a US Marine adopted a baby girl who was orphaned in Afghanistan, and took her away from her family. This is a story about the battle over a little girl -- and about the fictions we tell ourselves. For @NYTmag

https://t.co/lYvK4xACXo

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

Happening shortly online! Interviewing critic Pankaj Mishra - we'll talk about why he had to write a novel to say all he felt about the state of India and more. Tune in here https://t.co/DU73O6oQhg
@litlivemumbai

[Literature Live! @litlivemumbai]

Tune in to a conversation between author Pankaj Mishra and editor Sonal Shah about the perilous pursuit of power and prosperity on 10th November.

The session will be available on our website and Youtube Page.

@@the_realpankaj @toutress

https://t.co/C9bLNqDDW7

[Pragyan Mohanty @PragyanM]

A thread on Hindi films where you’d spot the poster of another Hindi film featuring a cast member.

Om Puri’s ‘changing the car tyre’ scene in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) has a poster of him from Shodh (1981) in the background.

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

In the 1960s Glasgow, the Scottish capital, became home to a strange but fabulously enticing curry war; something delectable emerged from it – the Chicken Tikka Masala, that still holds the people of the British Isles in raptures. A thread. 1/18

[Akshaya Mukul @Akshayamukul]

Literary critic Ira Pande praises 'Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover': The Many Lives of Agyeya'. @eliofkottayam @mileeashwarya @PenguinIndia @Tweetaround24 @rajeshramand https://t.co/oJlrmyZexW

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

@galtor @ankyt Excuse me?

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

Available at bookstores and online now. https://t.co/dHUJahXe53

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

Such an honor to work on this new archive-based literary biography of Agyeya by @Akshayamukul, that rare journalist-scholar who is also wonderfully kind, collaborative, and unflinchingly principled.

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

What I loved most was how the book beautifully illuminates the startling modernity of every earlier era (exemplified in this passage featuring Urdu writer Krishan Chander), with conversations that echo and resound with familiar humor, pathos and frustrations.

[Omnivore Books @omnivorebooks]

I'm sorry to pinch my American publisher friends, but the difference between the UK and US covers on this upcoming cookbook is simply egregious.

[Article 14 @Article14live]

Cofounder of @AltNews #Zubair, facing 3 cases & in jail last 12 days, was arrested for offences that don’t require arrest, according to 2014 #SC orders, which say police/magistrates who violate them liable for punitive action, writes @areebuddin14

https://t.co/T6X13scgiS

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

@Nandinivids He claimed to be from Bombay so maybe better luck there? Though fewer poetic gardens.

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

@dk_fakegod @FanStan10 No but I was sitting on one of his favorite benches!

[Sonal Shah @toutress]

Lodhi Gardens is a party. Some guy just tried to (very respectfully) chat me up "not as a man talking to a woman" but because he is a demisexual and was attracted to my mind.