"Jesus ko toh main pahle se jaanti hun" :) from Working Girls (2025) by Paromita Vohra

On the occasion of International Translations Day, sharing a review of Perennial: The Red River Book of 21st Century Hindi Poetry, our latest book of translations, edited by Sourav Roy & Tuhin (तुहिन/তুহিন), reviewed by Mohini Gupta. afterwordindia.com/substack/a-lan…

#CFP #decolonial #journal I am guest editing a special issue of the journal Global South Literary Studies (Taylor & Francis) on "Oceanic Fiction in Indian Languages and Beyond." If interested, please send your abstract. Here is the link to the cfp: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Bangalore folks: come by to Champaca later this month (October 19) for the launch of Between Worlds: the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF!

In Allahabad they had no patience with loneliness. ~ Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine invites submissions of previously unpublished poems in English and poems newly translated from other languages into English exploring "Apocalypse" in its global, collective dimensions. facebook.com/share/p/1HzF82…

Very excited about the forthcoming launch of EQUATOR, a completely new multi-media platform that will foreground alternative perspectives on the new world that is struggling to take shape amidst the ruins of the old one. Proud that I have a long-form piece in the first issue -

On October 15th, I am bringing “Footnotes to the Mahabharata” to IIT Madras. Honoured that the Madras Players is reading from my work. And delighted that this is a student-event. Chennai friends, do come! Venue: Mahatma Hall, CLT/Dept of HSS building

we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis —e. e. cummings, born #OTD in 1894 poets.org/poem/feeling-f…

Begins this Saturday. A new book each month, if all goes well.

In August, the archives hosted teachers from across Karnataka to write original scripts for science plays using primary sources. We're excited to finally host a reading of some of these plays! 🥳 Join us on 17th September by registering here: forms.gle/Q7DixXZR3MTShE…

Please note that there has been a change in the venue. The event will now be held at Ramanujan hall (Ramanujan block) adjacent to CLT (Central Lecture Theatre)

"...the home remains the most dangerous place for women in much of the world."

Woven plaits of jasmine love to call out greetings and I never fail to give them your love.  tarshi.net/inplainspeak/h…

Girls should read history. Women should read their own history. You don't know how much danger confronts you, and how much of the violence has been 💯 legal. If you shut your eyes to the blueprint of social engineering, you go on helping build your own prisons.

I was apparently the book's first online buyer :) Please get the book. Features a splendid essay by Sourav Roy

To be saved from meaninglessness, I knew, was everything. ~ Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments

#Archives Public Lecture Series #70! Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4 PM Independent India's Promise of 'People's Health' Shreelata Rao Seshadri in conversation with N S Abhilasha This is an online event. Registration and more details here: ncbs.res.in/events/apls-ap…