Author. ‘The Sea Has the Answers’; The Swap’; The Love Song of Maya K & Other Stories’
Delhi, India
Joined March 2012
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No Refusal ~ Ananth Padmanabhan’s love letter to Calcutta and its ambassador taxis indianexpress.com/article/li… via @IndianExpress
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Also no one lets those disembarking get off before trying to board. We have zero civic sense.
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I challenge you to watch this and not weep for what we have lost as a nation in the past 12 years, and the fact that there is still hope. #India #Brazil #LulaPresidente
A heron gives us company at lunch at @IIC_Delhi . And it clearly wants in — tapping on the glass window from time to time. 😊
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“The writing was an attempt to reconstitute myself as a person, as opposed to a body that was severely damaged and would never recover. To try and work out what that means, and who I am.”
"I can’t use my hands, I can’t type, so writing has become more direct, less playful and less poetic.”
~ Hanif Kureishi in the @FT
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Why is #KolaBeagle angry? Not merely because humans are trying to take back a stolen sock. But also because her fellow-beagle is in a cage and she has heard that beagles, which are tested, tortured and experimented on in labs worldwide because they are good-natured and "perfectly sized for humans to hold and control while experimenting", may go through more of this again in India.
The Govt of India's Animal Husbandry Department, has published Draft Rules that put the lives of beagles and other animals at risk, pushing India back into the 50s.
The October 2026 "Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Control and Supervision of Experiment, Breeding and Trading of Laboratory Animals) Rules, 2026" weakens oversight and endangers laboratory and stray animals. severe. It shifts oversight so that a facility's own "animal ethics committee" can approve mild and moderate tests and experiments on animals, rather than requiring centralized clearance.
Pls sign Freagles of India's petition: c.org/xPZvgw7wHF
@Min_FAHD @Dept_of_AHD @AwbiBallabhgarh @PetaIndia @pfaindia @FIAPOIndia @dugalira @GulPanag @Bharatitis
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Demolition of book stalls continue in Bengal: Locals resist bulldozer in night-long standoff in Jadavpur
@anindyahazra96 reports authorities refused to show demolition orders and allegedly said there was 'immense pressure' from 'higher levels'. altnews.in/demolition-of-boo…
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Apropos of nothing, a reminder that we are already in a post-constitutional era according to @IJaising .
'The Modi Government simply ignores the constitution.'
The Congress party’s response to multiple charges of sexual harassment levelled against its MP Bimol Akoijam is one more example of an alleged sexual offender who is sought to be protected by his power circle.
The Congress could have and should have done better.
My column in NDTV
ndtv.com/opinion/bimol-akoij…
An excerpt:
“There have been veiled suggestions that the two cases cannot be equated since Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is a strongman from the Hindi heartland with several criminal cases against him, and Bimol Akoijam is a scholar and an academic. However, the fact is that a person's level of scholarship or refinement or professional mettle has no bearing whatsoever on his alleged acts of sexual misconduct. The sexual abuse of women in the workplace or, for that matter, in academia arises out of a powerful man's conviction that he can get away with molesting a woman physically or verbally on account of his institutional clout. It is embedded in his belief that because of the power asymmetry between himself and the woman, he is entitled to look upon her as his prey, ask her for sexual favours, touch her inappropriately, or subject her to sexually offensive remarks. It is patriarchy at its ugliest, male entitlement at its crudest.”
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A silent march was held around the Press Club of India to protest the harassment and detention of journalists.
Videos by Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray) and Puja Sen (@psen9)
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From @NidhiSuresh_ article on #JantarMantar crackdown
Read full article here- thenewsminute.com/news/eerie…
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Peaceful dissent is central to democratic health & vitality! #DelhiProtests
Strong editorials in all mainstream newspapers.
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सुप्रीम कोर्ट के निर्देश की धज्जियां उड़ाकर दिल्ली पुलिस ने कई पत्रकारों को डिटेन किया .
नेहा बोरा के प्रोटेस्ट के दौरान @Saurabh_Unmute पत्रकारों के प्रति पुलिस के रवैए के चश्मदीद थे .
सौरभ से सुनिए पूरी बात
दिल्ली पुलिस प्रोटेस्ट कवर करने वाले पत्रकारों को लगातार क्यों डिटेन कर रही है ? क्या ऊपर से ऐसा निर्देश है कि इस बार पत्रकारों को भी टारगेट करना है ?
youtu.be/4ioI9nmvfac
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Manhandled, dragged, assaulted n misbehaved inside a police vehicle and dumped by the roadside - for the crime of speaking to the media.
This is not merely an assault on an MP. It is an assault on democratic freedoms and the rule of law. More chillingly, it happened within hours of the Supreme Court issuing directions to safeguard peaceful protest and constitutional rights.
I have written to the Hon’ble President of India @rashtrapatibhvn , the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha @VPIndia and the Chief Justice of India seeking urgent intervention and fixing accountability for the police personnel, and action on the question of parliamentary privilege.
The Government cannot intimidate democracy into silence. It cannot substitute the force of the baton for the force of debate. And it shouldn’t expect the people to surrender their constitutional freedoms merely because those in power find dissent inconvenient. The strength of a democracy lies not in its capacity to suppress dissent, but in its ability to address it.
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Our colleague @NidhiSuresh_ was detained around 3 pm. She was taken in the same van as @neha_aisa. M The cops told the women they could leave around 6.30 pm, but the women are there demanding the men be released too
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'The New York Times' provides a masterclass to India's constipated editors on how to use a photograph to convey an extra 1,000 words. @nytimes @adnanabidi
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Journalist friends and lawyers in Delhi ⚠️
Mass media detentions today - the author and journalist @mrajshekhar among them. Please help if you know which bus he's on/ which location they're being taken to.
@westlandbooks @pulitzercenter
.@mrajshekhar has been detained for merely trying to take a photo of students being detained in Connaught Place.