In the last 18 months around 15 reported custodial deaths in #Tamilnadu including a juvenile. No larger news coverage ,no outrage . Reason 90 percent Dalits . Including the juvenile.

🎤 new Radical Futures podcast featuring Laura Kasinof & Rim Mugahed talking about "The Book of Sana’a" published by Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow It brings together 10 translated stories from Yemeni writers. "It is only through fiction that the world can stop misunderstanding Yemen."

🚨BREAKING: The Israeli army has killed Ahmed Saad, one of the devoted heroes of agricultural relief who remained steadfast in northern Gaza. He refused to abandon the people, working tirelessly to save them from starvation through his agricultural projects.

It's a Friday of celebrations as Zara Chowdhary's The Lucky Ones wins Shakti Bhatt prize! thehindu.com/books/zara-cho… Context

We won an Emmy. The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children, the documentary that told a small piece of my story, has just received a News & Documentary Emmy Award in New York. To every child who stood in line for a plate of food, to every family who shared it with love, and to every voice

What makes women's stories distinctive? Here are my two cents. Manasa Publications, a new Chennai-based publishing house, is organising a novel competition for emerging women writers. Do apply! For more details, manasapublications.com/manasalitprize

A report from a unique gathering, the first in recent history, a meeting of South Asia’s rivers. This short story by Ashish Kothari explores the trials and tribulations of the rivers, shedding light on the issues they face, individual and collective. darknlight.com/projects/short…

A brand new story by Ashish Kothari Ashish Kothari presents the unique voices of India's rivers. Read it here: darknlight.com/projects/short…

The meltdown that people (shockingly it's not just Americans) are having about Zohran eating rice with his hands would be amusing if it wasn't so damn pathetic.

Beautiful new essay by Ashish Kothari

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

Congratulations to our author Yuvan Aves on being longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing—arguably the most prestigious award for nature writing in the UK, and perhaps globally. Yuvan is the first Indian, and possibly the only South Asian, to ever be nominated!

Palestinians are starving, dying in the streets, being murdered at aid stations. How did genocide become background noise?

We are excited to announce that Little Wild Cat has won an award for “Excellence” at the Nature Without Borders International Film Festival! darknlight.com/cataplisms/lit…

"The coasts we inhabit pulse with paradox. Shiver. Ooze. Sprout. Echo. Grieve. Drift. Rupture. Glow. Bloom. Time doesn’t simply pass on the shoreline—it clings and cracks, ferments and foams, bursts forth and dissolves." More from Tasneem Khan here: darknlight.com/projects/perso…

Why are these fancy Bookstagrammers silent on the ban of 25 important books? Careers built on books, yet not a word when they’re being banned? Keep your cutesy book recos & Blue Tokai shots- if you don’t have the guts of a peanut, you’re not a reader, you’re an idioit.

He was shot while waiting for humanitarian aid. Don't let the world look away from this genocide.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

The new season of Arcx is here. First up, a fascinating chat with Gigi Ganguly who is thoughtful, funny, and loves puns as much as I do.

Issue 61 of The Bombay Literary Magazine is live. It's our largest issue ever. We opened for essays this time, plus there's a guest edited special section called "Explorations." It's all awesome. And the translated fiction and poetry sections are out of this world.