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Hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social discusses Anglophone Indian writing, readership & the mechanics of publishing w/ the Editorial Director of Pan Macmillan India, Pujitha Krishnan. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3s84...

Toronto snowstorm

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

right?

‘For many writers, loyalty was above all to a region and a linguistic community, rather than to India writ large.’ Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam. granta.com/indian-tempt...

"Aestheticism Now!," a special issue of Genre, is now available: buff.ly/ADPYVfQ Read the introduction, "On the Politics of Aesthetic Detachment" by Aleksandar Stević, freely available: buff.ly/Ih5tHjD

did i need a giant fuecoco plushie? probably not. was he on sale for $27 instead of $40? yes. yes, he was.

Super excited - I'm speaking at the Manorama Hortus this year! www.manoramahortus.com/speakerInner...

They don't make underwear catalogues like they used to.

Beware narwhals bearing cease-and-desist letters.

Addicted to this beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkg...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

New book review: “Forbidden Desire is painstakingly researched—… In her effort to reclaim this part of India’s history, she is also creating a revised language of her own.” openthemagazine.com/books/sex-an...

In this new Intervention, "Cairo Road", @sarasalem.bsky.social reflects on Lusaka's map as a "living archive" of solidarity, a cartography of anticolonial struggle antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...

Canada is strengthening its trade ties with trusted partners to build a more resilient and sustainable global economy. From Europe to the Indo-Pacific, we’re expanding opportunities and creating stability through partnerships that share our values.

Always nice to see Forbidden Desire on platforms that are NOT Amazon. www.queerbooks.ch/rajasekaran-... champaca.in/products/for...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Engraving of the first printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Image source: Getty Images

"I started bringing books with me onto the train, inside the bodega, to the park, just pretty much anywhere people could see me and wonder, 'How can someone so conventionally attractive also have intellectual pursuits?'"

Do you? Or do you listen to books being read? Ever gotten AI to read a book & summarize it for you?

Button-Up Shirt Goes On Life-Changing Odyssey Around Dry Cleaner’s Garment Conveyor https://theonion.com/button-up-shirt-goes-on-life-changing-odyssey-around-dr-1828653305/

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Rivane Neuenschwander, Work of Days, 1998 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137478

The hype is real. Feels like sweet personal victory watching the Indian women's cricket team win the ICC world cup. My first ever girlfriend was a cricketer - she played nationals back in the day. Life comes full circle. www.instagram.com/reel/DQiOoBu...

More here: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/forbid...

Australian printmaking artist Rachel Newling, 'Oriental lillies' hand coloured linocut #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org

My latest book, Forbidden Desire - How the British Stole India's Queer Pasts & Queer Futures, aims to undo the deleterious effects of British colonialism on India's rich queer past. More here: www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Forbid...

new book, old book, same message: smash the (hetero)patriarchy.

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

The Queen of Swords from the Winged Spirit deck. #tarot #QueenOfSwords

The lil french Netflix movie about the louvre heist is going to be excellent.

Reader reviews - the best kind of reviews. So glad Forbidden Desire (How the British Stole India's Queer Pasts & Queer Futures) is finding its way home.

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Fake Lines: Sono Levant. Krank by @jaramachtsachen.bsky.social. fakelines.studio

Had a very interesting conversation with @jaramachtsachen.bsky.social about politics in Germany, resistance movements, Palestine, poetry, and the concept of Staatsräson on @thesubjectivespace.bsky.social. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2PUA...

#ForbiddenDesire More here: www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Sind...

Had a wonderful conversation with Dr Jaime M. Grant & Arundhati Ghosh about the importance of mutual respect and equality in intimate relationships. We dove deep into polyamory, and talked about why you must psychosexually liberate yourself from the heteropatriarchy. Watch here.

Special episode on the pod. Dr Jaime M. Grant [author of Polyamory for Dummies & Great Sex: Mapping Your Desire] and Arundhati Ghosh [author of All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India] talk to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social. Listen here: spotify.link/uja3n9lKBXb

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A month old now. Read here: www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Forbid...

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