Spolia becoming stories... Skendha Singh's marvellous essay on walking through Delhi. @skendhasingh.bsky.social share.google/VmgzoeNdhZQ1...

1/ Indian cities today want to become Le Corbusier’s fever dreams. Stacked cubes of glass and concrete. Tyrannies of straight lines. Do we want to live in Instagram grids—uniform & joyless? Here’s what we lose when we aspire to 🧵

What happens when the media turns a dog into a menace? – NDTV & Republic made snarling dogs click-bait. – It becomes public panic, then policy: SC orders mass removal—not sterilization. Photography isn’t art. It’s power. 👉 tinyurl.com/22ajau84

📸 The frame is not just about aesthetics — it’s geopolitics. A dehumanising image in the paper can become a policy memo tomorrow. And for Indians abroad, it can become the stare, the slur, the threat. More from @chiragwakaskar.bsky.social on #WorldPhotographyDay here: tinyurl.com/22ajau84

In India, a Supreme Court directive orders street dogs removed in weeks. In Delhi, leaders celebrate — using Swami Vivekananda’s image. But history shows he cherished animals and lived the ethic “the world is one family." tinyurl.com/3tn88xvd

On #InternationalYouthDay, Delhi’s leaders post Vivekananda’s image while backing policies that threaten the lives of lakhs of street dogs. Vivekananda loved animals. He even had a dog named Bagha. I write about the deep hypocrisy that is endangering many🐾 tinyurl.com/539yntkt

In postcolonial societies, “looking” is never neutral 📷 Photographer-curator Chirag Wakaskar & I talk about how to resist the colonial gaze & what it costs. Link ↓

"Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” On the politics of the gaze — and reimagining how we picture the world. tinyurl.com/22ajau84

I wrote about how completing a sketchbook helped me navigate a creative crisis/writing block. It would be wonderful to hear your thoughts on it! 💫 tinyurl.com/5n7fzb3j

Three years, fifty pages, and a whole lot of messy joy. I wrote about finishing my sketchbook, surviving the middle, and how art thawed my writing. Read here: tinyurl.com/5n7fzb3j

Re Astronomer, Coldplay & all that jumbotron - hello, Mercury Rx!

I picked up Help Thanks Wow needing comfort. Instead, I found a question that erased too much. And suffering rendered picturesque. On glibness & Godliness tinyurl.com/bdd6ekru

Japanese manga is a part of the University syllabi. Korean skincare gets celebrities raving about glass skin. Indian designs? Get appropriated as “boho.” I wrote about Prada, Kolhapuris, and the long afterlife of colonial perception today for Substack. tinyurl.com/3nx9yvmf

Finding my footing on a brand new platform. Feel very Frodo Baggins-y. If you're also writing, wondering and wittering - hello!