“We won’t respond to violence with violence. We won’t respond to hate with hate. If they spread hate, we will respond to it with love. If they thrash us with lathis, we will hold the tricolour higher.” 5 long years in jail without trial or bail. Shame.

New History Books fivebooks.com/best-books/new… via Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations

A rare appearance on X to say I've joined the wonderful team at The Bombay Literary Magazine as Managing Editor, Essays. We're now open for submissions for our next issue and have already started reading entries! Do submit your best work! More here 👇🏾 bombaylitmag.com/submit/?fbclid…

"The Washington Post fired me" over Charlie Kirk posts, writes Karen Attiah. "I have been canceled by Columbia. I have now been canceled by the Washington Post." substack.com/home/post/p-17…

#StoryAlert 🚨 ALARMING ORDER by a Delhi court in favour of Adani. Adani has been given blanket liberty to compile its own rolling blacklist and have platforms takedown “alleged defamatory content” within 36 hours, without further judicial scrutiny, until the court says

This is Indian media 🤡

Had the pleasure of speaking with Chloe Hadjimatheou Tortoise's narrative editor, and the reporter behind the Salt Path expose and the podcast Lucky Boy (one of my fave of the year). For Global Investigative Journalism Network gijn.org/stories/scanda…

Hyderabad’s coffeehouse chess culture is picking up steam as chess enthusiasts head to the hangouts that double up as tournament hubs Jaideep Unudurti writes: thehindu.com/entertainment/…

#bookreview | A house, a recluse, and a stranger "It seems entirely fitting that this vivid, slow-burning novel was awarded this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction." Bhavya Dore writes. frontline.thehindu.com/books/the-safe…

Rejoinder to the actor #TamannaahBhatia's recent interview about an article I wrote on #Baahubali in 2015 in The Hindu Businessline titled “The Rape of Avanthika”. Please read and share widely so that it leads to a conversation that conservatives and #misogynists want to avoid.

The Murder That Made Skip Hollandsworth a True Crime Writer texasmonthly.com/true-crime/ski…

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#Fierceland works best when it focuses on the siblings. These childhood chapters glisten with foreboding; the intrigue of knowing something bad happened, yet being unable to fully grasp it, writes Bhavya Dore t.ly/qbaIh

Robbie Millen recommends The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist fivebooks.com/best-books/bes… via Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations

Why Did a Group of Teenage Girls Kill a Man in a Downtown Toronto Parkette? thewalrus.ca/why-did-a-grou… via The Walrus

"Why a magazine, as opposed to a podcast series?" Read Carolina Abbott Galvão cjr.org/feature/signal…

Appreciating a fellow historian: my column in ⁦The Telegraph⁩ telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-life…

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A New John Irving novel is upon us! nytimes.com/2025/11/03/sty…

She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges. nytimes.com/2025/11/02/mag…