Replug: Since Modi came to power in 2014, his government has wielded the law to target every kind of critic on every platform, from students expressing opinions on social media to human rights activists investigating atrocities.
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Sonia Faleiro on how…

3/ From India, Adil Rashid brings us a story about the consecration of a once-Muslim-now-Hindu temple, and the Hindu far-right’s movement to raze other Muslim sanctuaries across the country. thedial.world/issue-15/hindu…

This is such heartwarming news!!! City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh included in the list of ‘Four Books to Understand Modern India’ compiled by eminent historian Mukul Kesavan for the esteemed Foreign Policy Magazine.

Other books in the list include The Price of Modi Years by…

The fact that India's Hindi belt has human development levels worse than extreme war zones + the fact causes no upheavals of commiserate scale is one of the most astonishing things about India.

I’m exploring a potential project with my SouthAsiaSpeaks co-translator Sirus Libeiro for Blaft Publications (@[email protected]) and need help! Pls RT for visibility. We need all the help we can get 🙏🏻

Wonderful! Thank you Zaffar Kunial for participating & The Nature Library for your thoughtful purchase. fatima bhutto Julia Churchill

Just five days to go! You could have your translation published in the US!

Lovely to see this. Thank you authors and donors for your support for #booksforgaza . fatima bhutto Julia Churchill

#BooksforGaza arriving home: Thank you Robert Macfarlane for your beautiful signed books & Nina Millns for your generous purchase. fatima bhutto Julia Churchill

These arrived at the weekend after the #BooksforGaza auction but took them into school today and my class are thrilled with my signed copies Louie Stowell 😍

How lovely to see #BooksforGaza arriving in their new homes. Thank you Kathleen Jamie for donating your books & Nicola Pitchford for your purchase. Julia Churchill fatima bhutto

Ramzan, Lent, Bandra.

A very special evening to launch #TheIncarcerations into the world from British Library, surrounded by the intimate support of friends, family & all those who made it possible to be here Arabella Pike Laura Meyer Bee Rowlatt & in conversation with the inimitable Sonia Faleiro🔥

A big @himalistan investigation, finally out! Please read and share, and become a patron to support our independent journalist! himalmag.com/support-himal

Launch event at British Library of Alpa Shah incredible book the #incarcerations with Sonia Faleiro chairing. #bhimakoregaon #India #BK16 #HumanRights #democracy

Greatly looking forward to talking to the brilliant Sonia Faleiro to launch #TheIncarcerations at British Library tonight Bee Rowlatt

If you couldn't get tickets: Come to launch LSE LSE Inequalities next Tues (26/3)Adrián Lamo.30. We're trying to secure a BIGGER theatre. More soon

In New York Times Opinion

“Rihanna, Mark Zuckerberg, bejeweled elephants and 5,500 drones. Those were some of the highlights of what is likely the most ostentatious pre-wedding ceremony the modern world has ever seen,” Sonia Faleiro, an author from India, writes. nyti.ms/3TGJ2Jd

Ahead of India’s general elections in April, the lavish prenuptial ceremonies for the billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son “shows us where true power in India” now lies, writes Sonia Faleiro.

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