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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
Blister beetle on a bush morning glory Ipomoea carnea urf besharm cos it grows everywhere lol native to tropical America #weedoftheday #gurgaon
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
On the 2026 @TheBookerPrizes shortlist, The End of Everything by M John Harrison is a work of speculative fiction that’s also a literary novel, a social satire, and a philosophical meditation on what it means to be human. Review by @pranavi_sharma
hindustantimes.com/s/1jMqeOm
This week’s pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes a book about a historical relic that also traces the arc of Bhagat Singh’s intellectual evolution, another on how disease reshaped colonial policy, and a volume of Rumer Godden’s writing
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNVv4C
In the Realm of the Last Man by @FukuyamaFrancis asks why liberal democracy keeps producing people who want to tear it down. Review by @nawaidanjum
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNVP6G
Historian Deana Heath and political scientist @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors of Policing and Violence in India, discuss the use of force and the suppression of dissent @chintanwriting
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNUt8K
"Raghu Rai captured images truthfully. That's the kind of person he was. The work is him and he is his work"
- Gurmeet Sangha Rai talks to me on the Books & Authors podcast about Animals by Raghu Rai, a selection of pictures clicked over the last six decades
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On the @htTweets Books page today, an interview with Deana Heath+ @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors, Policing and Violence in India, a review of @FukuyamaFrancis 's In the Realm of the Last Man + an interview with Sean Hewitt, author, Open, Heaven
@speakingtiger14 @HachetteIndia
Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Gurmeet Sangha Rai on Raghu Rai's stunning new book, Animals, and to a review of the @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted The End of Everything by M John Harrison
@HarperCollinsIN
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Govt is calling peaceful street protest anarchy. Real anarchy is top down subversion of electoral democracy where lakhs of voters are illegally deleted through a centrally controlled portal without following any procedure. And lakhs of voters added illegally. Real anarchy is when illegal SIR process is forced upon the people just a few months before elections making them run helter skelter. Real anarchy is when pellet guns and AK 47s are used against protesting students. Truth be told the road to Hindu Rashtra is inevitably laden with myraid milestones of anarchy. The world is also seeing this clearly now.
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🍻 Rock Machine was founded in the basketball court of the Sophia Polytechnic where Uday Benegal was a HAFT student! Those years were just so amazing.
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"Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed the prayer for blanket protection of women journalists. He claimed that in today's times, everyone with a mic claims to be a journalist and it is difficult to distinguish journalists from reel-makers"
Via @LiveLawIndia
