Taking a moment from the heat and dust and madness of elections to visit RK Narayan’s home in #Mysore , now a small museum, so simple and serene, that I was transported to #MalgudiDays . The perks of this road trip from Kanyakumari to Kashmir #DhabasOfDemocracy #PeopleFirst #Mojo

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Etymology of the day: the name of the Canary Islands didn’t begin with the canary bird. Instead it’s thought that the Latin ‘canaria insula’ described the ‘island of dogs’, because one of the islands had a large population of wild dogs. Which would mean that the archipelago’s

Heartiest congratulations

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Governments in Africa declare a climate emergency

Excellent initiative. Each University should do this, while also strengthening Shodhganga, the Central repository of all theses across the country.

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Extreme Dubai rainfall linked to climate change, not cloud seeding: Scientists

Amitav Ghosh

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India delivers 1st batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Philippines

Tagging Gretchen Filart 🇵🇭

Teaching Sylvia Plath's poem 'Daddy' today in the classroom, we explored 'Edge', 'Ariel', 'Lady Lazarus'. I asked them to read 'The Colossus' by themselves and we also read 'Daddy' closely. We read it twice , while I explained the poem. But we haven't completed yet. Will

Going to teach Sylvia Plath's poem 'Daddy' to my BA students tomorrow. Essentially talk about her oeuvre and so much more. And detail-read the poem. And read some more poems by her as well.

. Yashovardhan Jha Azad Barack Obama Martina Navratilova Swati Chaturvedi

The University where I teach, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, we have a Residential Coaching Academy for budding civil service aspirants. 31 got selected this year as Indian Civil Service officers.

I had a paper on English Phonetics and Phonology when I studied for my MA in English Literature. We used English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones and other books, including Spoken English for India by RK Bansal and JB Harrison, an excellent resource about the differences

My literary friends with deep interest in cinema Roomy Naqvy Mehul Devkala - Probably you would love this podcast on Omkara / Othello. open.spotify.com/episode/6DTXnE…

A very well written article by Swati Swati Chaturvedi . Thank you Yashovardhan Jha Azad for retweeting it. I might have missed it.

Krzysztof Iwanek -- you might like reading this.

Warm congrats, once again, to Charco Press, Ana Paula Maia, & Zoë Perry for winning the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize for their gut punch of a novel, Of Cattle and Men. The judges and I haven’t been able to shake off the novel’s dark mood, motives, and landscape since first reading it.

'Wah Jamia!' 31 aspirants from Residential Coaching Academy clear UPSC (become civil service officers).

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“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.”

A must read!

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Wishing all who celebrate this festival a very happy #RamNavami . Lord Ram has many beautiful names. One of my favorites is Janakivallabha, the beloved of #Sita .

That is extremely well put.