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is this it // essays and criticism for @thetls @lareviewofbooks @theeconomist etc. // fiction @mekongreview // former: policy @shashitharoor // 🇮🇳 🇪🇺

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I have an essay in the latest Mekong Review about Saadat Hasan Manto. With the wisdom and warmth of his stories, and the immense span of his moral universe the great bard of Partition was so much more than that. PDF link in the comments!
mekongreview.com/multitudes/

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on the occasion of the big man's birthday, re-upping my @thetls essay about nehru the philosopher. his thinking is everything sectarian nationalism is not: original, sensitive, and richly nuanced. it's little surprise that his legacy is under attack today.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jawah…

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really excellent (and funny) Alexander Wells essay on the mythology, convenience, and projection of 'the dissident', or: why it's annoying when our made-up heroes disappoint. in The Drift thedriftmag.com/truth-to-power/

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arundhati roy's veillon prize speech, originally published by Scroll.in, is now in the Los Angeles Review of Books. very glad to have helped a little in putting this together - it's well worth the read.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/you-mu…

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genuinely so confused by the BJP's recent obsession with soros and why they think that importing this random far-right trope from the west is going to be effective in india. like no-one outside of twitter is going to know who this is, what are they hoping to achieve?

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“Much like Lahiri, I am concerned with the ways in which India’s violent history has produced the Bengali immigrant. As writers, we can let the political live in the blank space between sentences.” Rani Neutill রানী writes about Jhumpa Lahiri’s works. lareviewofbooks.org/article/prohib…

“Much like Lahiri, I am concerned with the ways in which India’s violent history has produced the Bengali immigrant. As writers, we can let the political live in the blank space between sentences.” @raneutill writes about Jhumpa Lahiri’s works. lareviewofbooks.org/article/prohib…
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Really interesting piece on one of Delhi’s weirdest places, and how it’s become yet another landmark of the BJP’s crippling insecurity and desperate need for control

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feels like an apt day to repost this account of India’s long-running, multi-front war on independent media; one of my sources is among those raided this morning. studyhall.xyz/indian-govt-si…

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'If the IIC is geriatric, the JLF is young; if the IIC is a 19th-century novel, the JLF is magic realism.' Sumana Roy's essays are some of the smartest criticism of indian - or any - literature today.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ii…

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congratulations to the good people of south delhi for sending this fine example of a human being to parliament! more proof - as if we needed it - that money and sophistication and chhatarpur farmhouses don't buy basic decency.

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from the introduction to The Atlantic's fascinating october 1953 issue on india. another treat: 'As one Marathi writer said, “We have seen the politicians and the businessmen. We have had enough of that. Send us your writers. Send us Hemingway.”'

from the introduction to @TheAtlantic's fascinating october 1953 issue on india. another treat: 'As one Marathi writer said, “We have seen the politicians and the businessmen. We have had enough of that. Send us your writers. Send us Hemingway.”'
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vogue world is happening around the corner from my apartment and they've shut down the entire neighbourhood, can someone lend me a walking stick to wave disgruntledly at anna wintour and all other innocent passers-by

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I had a vague plan to only read contemporary fiction for a while but I think the netanyahus has definitively taken me out, what a fever dream

I had a vague plan to only read contemporary fiction for a while but I think the netanyahus has definitively taken me out, what a fever dream
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'Still, I like to think that Plath wrote The Bell Jar for those who, like me and her, are seized and haunted by certain images and certain notions—even those that may, at any point, turn on us.' Rafaela Bassili
theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

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