Too true!

darkness all morning in this shifting sea of mist traces of crowflight

the year’s last sunlight drawn away under the bridge never meant to go

Religion and morality are 2 separate concepts and there's nothing moral about religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be... 🤦‍♀️ #xl8

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‘When I taught a translation workshop this summer…I banned both terms. I find them disturbingly sexual—the implication is that a faithful translator does sleep around, and a translator who takes liberties is something like a rapist.’ The ever entertaining #DaisyRockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social

Geetanjali Shree speaks to me on the cumulative effect of small violences and the liberal confusion as a factor in the process of communalization of our cities. frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...

@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview. frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...

“किसी शहर से परिचित होने का शायद सबसे आसान तरीक़ा यह है कि यह जानने की कोशिश की जाए कि उसमें रहने वाले लोग काम किस तरह करते हैं, प्यार और मुहब्बत किस तरह करते हैं और मरते किस तरह हैं।” –अल्बेयर कामू

Man with his trophy, Mumbai .

Good to see this review: Revisiting the 1990 Rath Yatra Through Fiction: thewire.in/books/revisi...

Sunny Dogs❤️

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Aamir Aziz: dai.ly/x7s0xek

Reading Mira Sethi: ‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’

Election morning , Colaba.