deep in the next draft of my next novel based in Mayur Vihar so I took an ad for Miu Miu and turned it into an ad for Nine O Nine

seven years ago today, I went into labor and next thing you know, this morning, a first grader barged into the bedroom and said, “yo, can you put my hair in a braid for today?”

Obviously it’s terrible but how can you look at this picture of Satyajit Ray and not think smoking is cool? And socks with sandals and a general air of melancholy. Happy birthday anniversary to a genius.

Birthday of one of the world’s great film directors, Satyajit Ray. With Marlon Brando, Indira Gandhi, Ravi Shankar & Nehru.

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This seems like the wrong response to what’s happening there.

the only thing harder than getting the children out of the house is getting them back in

one of the greatest pranks a cousin once taught me was to walk down hotel hallways early in the morning and flip do not disturb signs to please clean the room and I’m so grateful to be able to pass ideas like that on to the next generation

time for a little break

I have recently been learning about and watching endless videos of Eskista, a traditional Ethiopian dance form that is new to me and it is just so precise yet fluid and beautiful. Please share your favorite videos with me if you’re more informed than I am.

Happening now: Columbia and Barnard Faculty stand in support of our students Columbia University Barnard College

Hindutva trolls (much fewer in number than the tweets suggest) are damaging India, trashing all achievements of the last 75 years. The establishment of democracy, secularism & free press was a staggering achievement. These are at risk now. But luckily all can see this.

Terrorizing the neighborhood on the first day of spring break.

I think a lot of people in “our circles” secretly vote for Trump and Modi while not revealing it socially for fear of being dismissed and isolated and we need to address why this is happening if we want it to not happen.

Everyone in publishing knows that Chiki Sarkar is pure genius at publicising books. This is a great opportunity to lead her publicity team at juggernautbooks. Any ambitious publicist should jump at it, there is so much to learn from her.

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our 6 year old has asked for a pedometer for her 7th birthday

first choice was an instrument that may or may not exist that you can stick into the ground to check for lava underneath and second was a pedometer

Greatest grandfather Kaushik Basu designed little open boxes and taped them on all the grandkids’ shoes and filled them with bird food so they could lure birds over to eat from their feet.