Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.

Honey, from a neighbour's hive. We got greedy and bought this jarful.

A JH Prynne poem, with a Chinese translation in Shanghai Poetry Lab. #poetry #JHPrynne #chinese #translation open.substack.com/pub/poetryla...

Acting as Deepa D's informal publicity agent and letting y'all know that her show is ON from today, one performance in each city, starting today with Delhi, Chennai on the 13th, Hyderabad on the 21st, and other cities in between and after. Tickets here: in.bookmyshow.com/plays/8-by-d...

This campaign for an Indian queer theatre maker is only $250 away from being 3/4th funded. And she has 16 hours to go! She's done some really valuable work for fandom over the years (I didn't dream of dragons etc) so let's try to get her there!

Deepa D is raising funds for her theatre work travelling to various cities in September and today's the last day for the fundraiser. Please donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1423...

R.I.P. Jayant Narlikar Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025) I heard this morning of the death at the age of 86 of renowned Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. I understand he died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness. Scientifically, Jayant Narlikar is probably best known…

For those no longer on twitter, but knew Kuffir from there and Round Table India, please donate if you can.

Do we see the problem in expecting military/police/security at tourist places or no.

The latest tragic massacre in Kashmir is further reminder that brutal military occupations are good for nothing and no one but the highest of state powers. You cannot expect an open wound being deliberately bled to heal into a magical and safe tourist spot.

There it is. The clam before the storm.

Atmospheric CO2 has passed 430 parts per million. The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 430 ppm was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.

Not one single post (that I've seen; admittedly I haven't scrolled very far down) about the destruction of 400 acres of forest in the University of Hyderabad, the protesting students, the govt brazening it out, a stay order from the high court and the JCBs ignoring it to continue clearing the place.

April is #DalitHistoryMonth. It is also #PoetryMonth for a number of English-speaking netizens. A few years ago I had done a twitter thread of Dalit and Bahujan poets. This year, I will try to do women. (I apologise in advance for the lack of alt+text transcript, since I would have to handtype it.)

After years we made vadams because summer is here early.

There are some amazing offers from the @freelibsnet.bsky.social for their fundraiser, so do go to their handle to check out everything. Mine is here: www.townscript.com/e/library-lo...

Author @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is writing a sequel to his hit novel The Sentence, and for a donation of ₹5000, he will name a character in it after you or someone you would like to give a slice of literary immortality to. bsky.app/profile/free...

It is not every writer who will offer to give you detailed written feedback on your book-length manuscript. Jerry Pinto is not every writer. You can take his offer in exchange for a ₹50,000 donation to FLN. bsky.app/profile/free...

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

This is no ordinary L💙VE! We kick off our Library Love fundraiser to campaign for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Anjum Hasan is starting us off in style! #Swipe & scan the QR code on slide 2 OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL K Srilata is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Show some @freelibsnet.bsky.social love.

This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @kiranmanral.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @sridala.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Our L💙VE for free libraries just won’t stop! FLN's Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Amitabha Bagchi is making an amazing offer. Swipe & scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove

I'm helping raise funds for the Free Libraries Network with the offer below. Please donate so that @freelibsnet.bsky.social can continue to do the amazing work they do!

Today's harvest: avarakkai and murungakkai. I've got scars that can't be seen. And a workout.

A part of my yoot. Go well Tom Robbins. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Our poinsettia doesn't believe in seasons.

First flowering of our himayat.

More “protection” for Indian women

I love pruning fruit trees wish there was an artist's residency where you just prune in silence with others in a valley

End of winter bounty. #garden

Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works. Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.

You Go Man! Why Me?: How to Interact with Certain Supernatural Beings in Certain Terrible Places Collage zine by Kuzhali Manickavel featuring Item Fish and Angry Men! ₹250 only! www.blaft.com/collections/...

At noon today at the Hyderabad LitFest, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Menka Shivdasani, Hyderabad's The Little Theatre and I pay tribute to Keki Daruwalla. 12 pm today. Do come! #HydLitFest25

Not that there are too many people from Hyderabad that I'm in touch with here, but the Hyderabad litfest begins tomorrow, and I'll be in conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam at 4pm. We'll be talking about her anthology of sacred indian poetry, Wild Women. If you're around, do come!)

Found at MR Books, Begumpet.

If you know bookish types in Ahmedabad, please help us spread the word! At Sunday's event you'll meet some absolute legends of Gujarati science fiction and horror, w/ translator @vishwambhari.bsky.social talking to Bharg Mankodi about her deep dive into a century's worth of Gujarati thrillers.

For a few years now I've been increasingly suspicious of the way Neil Gaiman seems to be attempting to position himself as the inheritor of Terry Pratchett's legacy, so I wanted to write a little about that & why speculation about whether PTerry knew he was a creep kind of misses the point (small 🧵)

Going through old interviews with Terry Pratchett to see what I can find from him on his relationship with Gaiman, and just came across this from 2002. Doesn't really sound like someone whose dying wish would be to have #goodomens filmed & expanded does it? www.sffworld.com/2002/12/scif...

Happy Sankranti/Pongal/Bihu to those who celebrate! May the sun be kind this year.

The body gradually gets used to more physical work as you do it. Wishing for a strong body for the entirety of my life.

Hiring. Work for justice.

Please, please don't ever buy books from Amazon India. Their interface for listing books is completely broken, their logistics are a major headache for small publishers, and there's no human support. Now it looks like they've started "editing" product descriptions and author bios with AI. It's BAAD

A brief history of India's railway strikes (pre- and post-Independence, including the infamous '74 strike.)

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Hi everyone. How's the new year treating you?