With Madhubala P, wrote a piece for @legalform.bsky.social on the ongoing citizenship battles in India, on deportations and home demolitions, and why the constitution is not enough. 👇🏼

At 3 PM today, I am moderating a conversation on speculative fiction between Samit Basu and Sung il-Kim, at Kunzum Books (GK II). Come by!

Join us for a conversation with Gautam Bhatia on “Thinking about the Indian Constitution.” Hosted by The Community Library Project with History for Peace. Link: forms.gle/RnmAN2hsFDWv...

With Madhubala P, wrote a piece for @legalform.bsky.social on the ongoing citizenship battles in India, on deportations and home demolitions, and why the constitution is not enough. 👇🏼

'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.

Today was the 40th monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. We returned to @aptshadow.bsky.social with Alien Clay. The room almost came to blows about whether Kiln really was a [redacted], talked about symbiosis and prison planets - and agreed we need to know what happens next!

Today was the 40th monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. We returned to @aptshadow.bsky.social with Alien Clay. The room almost came to blows about whether Kiln really was a [redacted], talked about symbiosis and prison planets - and agreed we need to know what happens next!

Fantastic book. I looked for shards of the lyrical science fiction writer leaping out of the legal prose, but this is a brilliant work of expository law on its own terms. And +100 for explaining Pashukanis better than Pashukanis.

When the two worlds finally collide…

It’s the third Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. Julian Barnes, Alejandro Zambra, Antigone, a new Indian climate fiction anthology & more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.

Today, 4 PM, at the Press Club.

It’s the third Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. Julian Barnes, Alejandro Zambra, Antigone, a new Indian climate fiction anthology & more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.

New book review: “Radical Kinship”: Judith Butler’s Antigone’s Claim — anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/r...

Completed @essahansen.bsky.social collection.

New book review: “Radical Kinship”: Judith Butler’s Antigone’s Claim — anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/r...

In today’s @thehindu.com, my piece on the ongoing SIRs, on the problem of mass disenfranchisement, and on the Supreme Court’s failure to engage with the constitutional questions that they raise.

New book review: “Don’t stop looking” — on Julian Barnes’ last novel, Departure(s): anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/d...

Finally started reading this: so brilliantly written, clear and lucid, and accessible to folks like me who aren’t familiar with the grammar/vocabulary of these debates.

New book review: “Don’t stop looking” — on Julian Barnes’ last novel, Departure(s): anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/d...

Goa — today @ 5 30 PM.

Julian Barnes’ last novel: quietly, softly devastating, of living and dying in the post-tragic age.

Julian Barnes’ last novel: quietly, softly devastating, of living and dying in the post-tragic age.

I have also read Gramsci's Fall (I was suckered in by the title and the cover), and everything Gautam says about it in his newsletter is spot on:

I loved reading this

New book review: “A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home — anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...

Re-reading project: one every month for the next three years. Very slowly and very intentionally. First up: Coriolanus.

New book review: “A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home — anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...

What a strange, sad — and brilliant — book.

What a strange, sad — and brilliant — book.

Submissions for Volume 2 of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF are open until the end of the month. Stories are reviewed blind, and we pay for accepted works. Detailed below, and the link to submit your work. 👇

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It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. what makes KLF and the Kochi Biennale special, books about revolutions and revolutionaries, rediscovering the classics, and more.

It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. what makes KLF and the Kochi Biennale special, books about revolutions and revolutionaries, rediscovering the classics, and more.

Via Alberto Toscano, discovered this fascinating little book about the (anti-)political character of Greek tragedy. A short review later this evening in today’s newsletter.

Enjoyed reading the Locus Recommended Reading List, as always. A tad disappointed that Between Worlds didn’t make the cut in the Anthologies category, as this has been one of the very few magazines that’s always been welcoming to non-US/UK published books, but taste is subjective, and we move.

Experiencing the weird at the Kochi Biennale.

This Jan 26, HarperCollins India is making available in a single box set the three books: The Transformative Constitution, Unsealed Covers, and The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Power. Pre-order link in thread below. 👇🏼 [1/3]

This Jan 26, HarperCollins India is making available in a single box set the three books: The Transformative Constitution, Unsealed Covers, and The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Power. Pre-order link in thread below. 👇🏼 [1/3]

Spending this week working on the sequel to The Fifth Inflection here.

Read this rather strange - and patchy - book, which is part historical fiction and part contemporary existentialist despair. The first bit is very well done, the second was extremely annoying. Check it out if you’re Gramsci or Italian history-curious, otherwise give it a miss.

One of the most excellent and timely critical pieces I've read. Can't underestimate the level of ignorance rampant inside the pop ent field, namely because the majority come in it as fans who never ever critically reflect on why they react the way they do in feelings or choices.

Pick up some books at the Kerala Literature Festival!

Just finished, perhaps the best book on the Arab Spring that I’ve read. Inter alia, introduced me to the concept of “refolutions”’: powerful revolutionary movements unleashed on the streets that ended up pushing for reform in and through the institutions of the incumbent states.”

A World Book Fair find: this biography in fragments about one of the 20th century’s most remarkable figures, and a window into the Spanish revolution through his brief, incandescent life. Brilliant.

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It’s the third Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. memories of the World Book Fair, the new Victor Serge biography, Blossom Bookshop turns 24, re-reading Roger Zelazny, and more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

It’s the third Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. memories of the World Book Fair, the new Victor Serge biography, Blossom Bookshop turns 24, re-reading Roger Zelazny, and more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

Got my copy of 'Between Worlds,' an Indian SF anthology, and I'm super excited to get into it. @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Edited it.

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Reading Asef Bayat’s Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, which has this remarkable description of the 1979 Iranian Revolution: