My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery
#Father'sDay

On The End of Everything by M John Harrison. @pranavi_sharma's review of the winner of @TheBookerPrizes fr 2026
hindustantimes.com/s/1jMqeOm

Author of Bombay; An Illustrated History, Jehangir Sorabjee on writing his book that's full of wonderful trivia and great pictures. Here, he talks about the Maratha Angrias enslaving Englishmen and more! Click on the link in thread for the full conversation
#goodreads kstagram
@RoliBooks

I can barely breathe and i have really robust lungs. Last night one of the buildings in the neighbourhood caught fire. Two floors completely blackened. Respectfully, I have to say I think we have become a nation of morons.

Ok i watched Ramayan and I loved it but what I now think is that this whole RW environment has resulted in moviemakers being so scared of touching the figure of Ram himself that all their creative energy has gone into portraying Ravan. And man, what a fantastic Ravan this is!

Enjoyed the conception of the Pushpak Vimaan as a sort of steam punk UFO. Quite brilliant I thought

But the one thing i wonder about is how does someone who is not immersed in this culture, who doesn't understand or have a connection to the race memory aspect of this epic, view this. Like would a Western audience look at this like a "normal" animation film? How boring is that.

Watching Ramayan and RAVAN so far is totally impressive!
Loving how the film looks too!

I was walking along cursing the AQI etc when I looked up thru the haze at the neighbourhood silk cotton tree and saw this prospective member of the lane RWA, Mr Brown-headed Barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus), busy carving out a new flat. Happy Diwali, all 🙏

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes a cross-genre anthology on Palestine, a translation of a collection of 10th century Jain stories about achieving moksha, and a portrait of Bangladesh
@HarperCollinsIN
@Harvard_Press
@AlephBookCo
hindustantimes.com/s/1lPIL5M

Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong is the story of Charu Chittol, who
runs away from home, aged 16,
in the mid-1970s, to “become something” in Bombay. The novel won the Godrej Literature Live! Book of the Year award. Review by @saudaminijain
hindustantimes.com/s/1lFooEK

“Our elites look at the world from a Western perspective”
- @saeed_naqvijour, author, The World Was Not Their Story, talks to @MaqboolMajid abt his 60 years of war reporting, and things we still don't see when it comes to geopolitical conflict
@speakingtiger14
hindustantimes.com/s/1lPHoJs

"Set within Delhi’s affluent circles... the relationship between private experience and social position is the central concern of Moms by Shivani Sibal."
- Review by @pranavi_sharma

hindustantimes.com/s/1lPHILw

Forwarded as Received by @AzimSaadia looks at how misinformation and fake news are shared and amplified on social media and on closed platforms such as WhatsApp. Review by Thangkhanlal Nghaite
@SimonSchusterIN
hindustantimes.com/s/1lPGm7U

"For the last 10 years, everytime I pop up at a party, I come up with trivia about Bombay and everyone thinks, 'Oh God, this boring fellow!'"
- Jehangir Sorabjee, author, Bombay; An Illustrated History talks to me on the Books&Authors podcast. Link to conversation in thread

On the @htTweets Books page, reviews of Forwarded as Received by @AzimSaadia and Moms by Shivani Sibal + an interview with @saeed_naqvijour on his new book, The World Was Not Their Story
@SimonSchusterIN
@HarperCollinsIN
@speakingtiger14

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Jehangir Sorabjee, author, Bombay; An Illustrated History, and to a review of Rahul Bhattacharya's Railsong, which won the Godrej Literature Live! award for fiction
@RoliBooks
@BloomsburyIndia

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