manjula narayan

Editor, Books page @httweets, Host, Books&Authors podcast. Click on link in bio to listen to 200+ episodes. Personal account. Views not of employer.🇮🇳

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My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery
#Father'sDay

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Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the original Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, is an unsettling prose poem. Review by @chintanwriting
https://t.co/e6tP5Ch3XR

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@niyogibooks https://t.co/XIpNblXYnw

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"Earlier, Indians measured time by the 24 minute 'ghati' and used water clocks. Colonialism brought the 60 minute hour and mechanical clock towers"
- Debashis Das, author, Clock Towers of India, on the many fantastic clock towers across the country. Link in thread
@niyogibooks
#podcast

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@htTweets @saurabhsherry @ruthvikarao @livetowrite @WestlandBooks @BloomsburyIndia @juggernautbooks @TheBookerPrizes @LizStrout @niyogibooks Read the @htTweets Books page in the epaper:
https://t.co/XdvxmU2piy

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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, and Operation Silkyara: The Untold Story of One of India's Greatest Rescue Missions by @saurabhsherry + an interview with @ruthvikarao, author, All Our Evenings
@juggernautbooks
@PenguinIndia

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@htTweets @saurabhsherry @ruthvikarao @livetowrite @WestlandBooks @BloomsburyIndia @juggernautbooks Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books &Authors podcast with Debasish Das, author, Clock Towers of India, and to a review of @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted Things We Never Say by @LizStrout
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@kurtbento @abhijitkadle We dint start the fire. It's been burning since the world's been turning... lol

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@kaalicharan I work fr three 😂😂😂

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Got on my bike after ages today. Weather's getting better; hope everything else wl too.🤞Pic 2 is me in biker hijab with Dilli's rakshasas - the paper ones 😉
Pic 3 is cos I want every1 to see my tshirt which says "I work hard cos I want my dog to have a better life" #sachh

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@kurtbento @abhijitkadle Alright I guess. Getting along lol

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@kurtbento @abhijitkadle Hahaha how are you Kurt??

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The beetles are v pretty but toxic. Suddenly appear here when it gets cooler along with silvebills and screeching treepies

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Blister beetle on a bush morning glory Ipomoea carnea urf besharm cos it grows everywhere lol native to tropical America #weedoftheday #gurgaon

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@abhijitkadle Same report from my street. Think evil ppl get a kick out of doing this. I hope they are reborn as vermin

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@patralekha2011 Ah beautiful!🙏

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@patralekha2011 Arre yr fighting morons with intellect. They wouldn't know intellectualism if it spat in their faces 😂

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@Farooquiam 😂 v true

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@SaffronChargers Now you've made lauki a Hindu vegetable? 🙄you Sanghis seriously are deeeeeply intellectual 🙏🙏