"I learned this from a lover I still dream about sometimes, only sometimes, more often I dream of a tilted landscape that remains mute no matter the way I scratch at it, I think the landscape is childhood..." #amreading Abhinav in Tahoma Literary Review

Resharing "My Impertinent Evening" included in this issue (alongside other fantastic pieces), for your weekend read! #readingcommunity

this rules

Writing is this effort not to obliterate the picture, not to forget: this is how it is for Lispector, for Tsvetaeva, for Bachmann. … Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”

In our latest issue, the first-up flash essay is in response to a previously published TLR essay of the same name. Read “Solo” by Abhinav Abhinav. May it inspire a response as excellent.

Dear Supreme Court, I request you to take suo motu cognisance of the waterlogging crisis in Delhi NCR and set an 8-week deadline for all roads to be fixed, sewage systems to be cleaned, and drain pipes to be fixed. I further request the Govt of Delhi to welcome the above order.

"Gandhi used to be surrounded by four-five circles of people so that the colonial police couldn’t touch him,” he said. “Who were these masses?" For #IndependenceDay I wrote about the forgotten Adivasi freedom fighters of South Gujarat. scroll.in/article/108553…

Every year, India butchers Bhagat Singh’s legacy by misrepresenting his revolutionary ideas as a mere “freedom” fighter, appropriating him to boost nationalism. While Pakistan (where Bhagat was born, mainly organized, hanged, and laid to rest) doesn’t even acknowledge him.

NYT today vs the Onion

Police force for a non-violent, 77-year-old man spreading the message of Humanity. “Communal forces are hijacking Rajghat.” - VKT

Indians & leaders respect, admire Bhagat Singh but if he were alive they’d brand him anti-national, his ideals & ideologies would be a threat, the government would jail him. His story would end as it did. They only love him dead, his existence was detrimental to bharat Samaja now

4) This brave journalist dared to ask some tough questions from ECI ECI — Next question please 😂

This will blow your mind 🤯🔥 Assam BJP Govt gave 3,000 bigha (81 million sqft) to Adani to build a cement factory 🤯 Even the HC Judge got shocked — “Is this a joke? Are you giving an entire district?” Himanta needs to go to jail, his end is coming 🔥

Akhilesh Yadav distributed copies of affidavits to journalists. After the 2022 assembly polls, SP had submitted 18,000 affidavits to the Election Commission, but not a single action was taken.

ORF is a think tank and one of its founders is the Ambani family. Even Jaishankar’s son heads the American operations of ORF. If the speculations are true, it has come to light that since the past many months, they have secretly disrupting/ influencing India’s foreign relations

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza. Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives. wfp.org/news/famine-co… — via World Food Programme

NCLAT Chennai Judicial Member Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma recused himself from hearing a case, recording in his order that he was approached by “one of the most revered members of the higher judiciary” seeking a favourable order for a party.

How do religious people, Hindus in this case reconcile with this idea that their God who is supposed to have created the universe gets polluted by the touch of their own creation?

#6, BIGGEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD | After house #0, we have house #6 from Nidani village of Bihar (Bodh Gaya, Booth 161). EC records show 947 voters living in House # 6. Holy Election Commission of India of non-biological PM gives everyone a roof over their heads, including the ones who don't exist.

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