My second book, ANANDA: MY EXPLORATION OF INDIA’S UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH CANNABIS will be published later this by the Aleph Book Company. It’s a travelogue, a research project, a search for bliss. It’s a story unlike anything you may have ever read before.

Kanishka Gupta

🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P.

“As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy''

In Japan, the government has stepped in to support local bookshops.

Distinctive. Brilliant. Ambitious. Rooted. These and many other such attributes are the hallmarks of people from the small towns and peripheries of India. In this extraordinary, eye-opening book, Sumana Roy , a proud provincial, shows us how those from small towns are fully

This exchange… her grandmother would be SO PROUD !!! 🔥🔥

What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India scroll.in/article/106695… via Scroll.in

In FIRE ON THE GANGES, Radhika Iyengar presents the stories of real people with the added flourish of a novelist’s eye, featuring a wide cast of characters who are often defined by motivations beyond the sacred fire.

Pick up the latest copy of Frontline for my essay!

Susan Sontag and John Berger in conversation, 1983

#BhangJourneys
Speaking Tiger

Don’t miss #BhangJourneys Today Universal Booksellers #Lucknow & Tomorrow Harmony The Book Shop #Varanasi

The #BhangJourneys tour ends with Universal Booksellers, Lucknow on 16th April and Harmony The Book Shop, Varanasi on 17th April.
Thank you for being on this fun 'trip' with us!  #BookTour #BookTwitter HarperCollins Walking BookFairs

The very book you need when the elections are upon us is just out. Eswaran Sridharan's ELECTIONS, PARTIES, & COALITIONS IN INDIA. Details here: tinyurl.com/3fuwkpxw

Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett!
Here is the last page of my father’s Beckett chapter from his iconic book The Making of Modern Drama.

#SafdarHashmi_70thAnniversary

“ Rehearsals began today. Work is heavy - what with directing four plays simultaneously and managing a crowd of sixty boys and girls. And such diverse plays as a 13th century Chinese play, an 18th century English comedy , a 20th century Brechtian…

How a German photojournalist exemplified the courage and heart of reporting from the frontline scroll.in/article/106630… via Scroll.in

Why do many Ayurvedic doctors consider bhang a ‘medicine’? A new book tries to find answers scroll.in/article/106628… via Scroll.in

💎 KURT VONNEGUT
Died on this day, in 2007

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

Ishtiaq Ahmed author of 'Jinnah : His sucesses failure and role in history' Ishtiaq Ahmed places Jinnah's actions under intense scrutiny to ascertain the Quaid-i-Azam's successes and failures and the meaning and significance of his legacy.
Ishtiaq Ahmed

This lovely, detailed review of Temple Lamp by Mohd Farhan out from the Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star today. Read. thedailystar.net/daily-star-boo…