In this monthly column, ((sohinibasak.bsky.social)) talks to contemporary writers from Asia to understand nuances of cultural practices, literary lineages, gender norms, all the while asking the question: Is there an Asian way of thinking? Read all the interviews here trib.al/xPTI5bu

Reading Asia Part 3 is an interview with Bora Chung! She talks to me about her passion for translating Russian literature; her approach to short stories; the role of the Science Fiction Writers Union of Korea and more. Honford Star Anton Hur The Hindu thehindu.com/books/books-au…

late to this announcement but if you know me you know i'll never share an Amazon link! presenting And They Lived...Ever After, a collection of fairy tales retold by 13 Indian disabled women that i had the pleasure of editing for Rising Flame 🍀🌻 champaca.in/collections/ne…

In an interview with ((sohinibasak.bsky.social)) for The Hindu, Korean author Bora Chung talks about how she has developed her unique style of writing over the years, and her journey as a translator trib.al/4ml523A #books

On the last day of Ramadan, we cooked shawerma for the children! Their favorite sandwich. Eid mubarak 🙏🏻

'Refractions of the Ancient: A Conversation Around India and Poetic Writing'

Amazing event coming up chatting with Janani Ambikapathy, Sharmistha Mohanty, Elisa Silva and Antonio Díaz Oliva, all welcome 🌿

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Global Africa Translation Fellowship application cycle is open. Deadline June 1.
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BREAKING: The world has experienced its hottest March on record, marking the tenth straight month of broken global temperature records, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Celebrating National Poetry Month with these three poems by the great Cristina Rivera Garza in translation by myself Ilana Luna and my dearest Cheyla Samuelson 💜

FREELANCERS PUT YOUR RATES UP TODAY. It is a new tax year! Consider inflation, your experience, your business costs! No one is going to pay you more out of the goodness of their hearts!

These are the MINIMUM recommended rates for editing work by CIEP.

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Government dilutes/drops refrences of the plight of those displaced by the Narmada dam. It is all the more necessary to listen to the voices of oustees. Visit, listen, circulate the website- Oral History of The Narmada Struggle: oralhistorynarmada.in

Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data

If you're interested in data on India – covering everything from work to health to the economy – go check out Rukmini S's newly launched: dataforindia.com

A bit like Our World In Data, Data for India is a public platform full of charts *and* context for those numbers.

🥁✨Our documentary Moving Upstream: Ganga from Siddharth Agarwal's 3000km walk along the River Ganga - is now streaming on YouTube!

aindri Arbab Ahmad A Bhaskar Rao ExperiencesWithEVs/PM Shridhar Sudhir Moving Upstream - Veditum
#MovingUpstream #Ganga
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Sundress Publications is now open for its 13th annual e-chapbook contest! Authors of all genres may submit manuscripts between 12-26 pages. This contest will be judged by Athena Nassar. Submission deadline is May 31st! sundresspublications.com/echap/2024/03/…

#Indian #poets : For 2024, applications for the #VijayNambisan fellowship at Sangam House (Bangalore) are invited in English and #Marathi .
Deadline: 30 April
#poetry
#WritingCommmunity

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“Palestinian poetry is not only poetry for times of crisis. It is not breaking news or soundbites for the media. It is poetry for all time.”

Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين on the move from hopelessness to resistance in the poetry of Samer Abu Hawwash:
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it's April! which means nominations are open for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize! for which ABSOLUTELY ANYONE can nominate a book, yes, that means you; yes, that means authors can nominate themselves; yes, yes, yes

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It feels like everything is pointing towards the conclusion of the journey or the ultimate end.

' #IMD warns of searing summer in #India with more #heatwave days than usual, impacting elections and water shortages; El Nino to blame, but may weaken by June,' writes Jayashree Nandi

Read more here: hindustantimes.com/india-news/mor…