Join us!
Saturday with @samitbasu, me and Darpan Ray -- indoors, at the Humayun's Tomb Museum auditorium.
Bring your own mirrors... 🪞🪞🪞
"The moment your life is touched by a star, no matter how small or shallow -- you want to be them, you want a life like the one they're pretending be more than yourself. And even when you come close enough to see the cracks...
...The influencer era isn't special. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy, like a fungal system replicating itself without a designer."
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#Update
We are moving #SuitableConversations to an indoor venue: Auditorium, Humayun's Tomb Museum (in the cafe courtyard next to Nisaba), Sunder Nursery, New Delhi
We look forward to welcoming this Saturday, 14th November, at 4 PM.
RSVP now: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
We are moving #SuitableConversations to an indoor venue: Auditorium, Humayun's Tomb Museum (in the cafe courtyard next to Nisaba), Sunder Nursery, New Delhi
We look forward to welcoming this Saturday, 14th November, at 4 PM.
RSVP now: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
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Samit Basu retweeted
Layered, dark and wickedly funny, @samitbasu's The Pictures of Darpan Ray is set in a twenty-first-century vortex obsessed with youth, beauty, art, spirituality and conformity. A triumph of imagination and skill, this contemporary reimagining of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of ed to entertain, unsettle and provoke its readers in equal measure.
Out now!
Out now!
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The Pictures of Darpan Ray is out now! samit.substack.com/p/the-pictures…
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The only thing better than a new @samitbasu book, is a samit book with some goodies. Weekend read sorted x
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old classics, new conversations, a very suitable combo, this one, ft. @samitbasu's latest work, the pictures of darpan ray
come one, come all, but first, register: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
see you on the 14th of november, delhi!
come one, come all, but first, register: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
see you on the 14th of november, delhi!
Join us for a very Suitable Conversation at @sundernursery with @samitbasu & @nilanjanaroy on ‘Black, White, and (Dorian) Gray: Retelling a Classic for the Modern Gaze’, based on Basu’s latest work, The Pictures of Darpan Ray.
14 Nov | 4 PM
Register now: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
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For your mid-apocalypse needs, here's
Join us for a very Suitable Conversation at @sundernursery with @samitbasu & @nilanjanaroy on ‘Black, White, and (Dorian) Gray: Retelling a Classic for the Modern Gaze’, based on Basu’s latest work, The Pictures of Darpan Ray.
14 Nov | 4 PM
Register now: forms.gle/sTM9oTQPTM5Pg5…
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Samit Basu retweeted
Set in a Bollywood transitioning between the multiplex and AI eras, this is a layered, dark, and wickedly funny story about friendship, ambition, and the monstrous machinery of modern stardom.
@samitbasu's highly anticipated new novel, a contemporary reimagining of Oscar ictures of Darpan Ray - is officially arriving on the 5th of November, and you can you can preorder your copy right now!
PRE-ORDER today: amzn.in/d/09UG7O1B
@samitbasu's highly anticipated new novel, a contemporary reimagining of Oscar ictures of Darpan Ray - is officially arriving on the 5th of November, and you can you can preorder your copy right now!
PRE-ORDER today: amzn.in/d/09UG7O1B
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Somewhere alone in an underground luxury bunker Modi is scrolling Neha Bora accounts and whimpering in fear
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Really enjoying this series!
youtu.be/hZqXPKRHe4s?si…
The 2nd episode of Musafiri has dropped! It’s about the oldest thing in Mumbai !
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Samit Basu retweeted
What if Dorian Gray lived in today’s India? Dark, wickedly funny, and deeply unsettling—Samit Basu’s The Pictures of Darpan Ray brilliantly reimagines The Picture of Dorian Gray for a world obsessed with youth, beauty, art, and conformity. #ComingSoon
New novel alert!
Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat.
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Thank you for making it possible!
We’re delighted to announce that @samitbasu’s dazzling work of contemporary fiction, ‘The Pictures of Darpan Ray’ will be out in October 2026 by HarperCollins India, and we absolutely can’t wait for the world to read it.
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New novel alert!
Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat.
Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat.
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Should be on shelves in a few weeks! Please spread the word, and I’ll share links and more as soon as they arrive. For more, please visit my newsletter.
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For readers outside India, there’s another announcement I hope to be making soon, about a different book with a different title, a different genre and a different pub date, because a Bollywood Dorian Gray retelling can’t be expected to take just a single form. More soon!
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