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
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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 🙏

"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

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
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@BloomsburyIndia

The lead pic on the page marks the 113th birth anniversary of Albert Camus

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes a collection by 10th C Jain scholar Shivakotyacharya, translated from the Kannada
by Vanamala Vishwanatha, and a portrait of Bangladesh by @saliltripathi

This week's poetry pick is Mindy Gill's Alibi from For Gaza, an anthology edited by Pascalle Burton and Jeet Thayil
@HarperCollinsIN

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

Author of Traitor in the House; My Bipolar Life, @livetowrite on the mental health crisis in India and the lack of any proper system to help those in need.
Link to full conversation in thread
@WestlandBooks

This week's @htTweets Books page in print after half a decade ♥️
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@livetowrite
@BarooahNabaarun
@nawaidanjum @NamitaGokhale_ @dikshabasu
@Geekyliterati @writerly_life
🙏🙏 @HT_Ed @_kunal_pradhan

"I know how people look at those with mental illness. I had to speak out"
- @livetowrite, author, Traitor in the House; My Bipolar Life, talks to me on the Books&Authors #podcast. Click on link in thread for the full conversation
@WestlandBooks

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books& Authors podcast with @livetowrite , author, Traitor in the House; My Bipolar Life, and to a review of The Disappearers by @MarlonJames5, that's on @TheBookerPrizes shortlist this year
@WestlandBooks
@PenguinIndia

The lead pic on the page celebrates the 394th birth anniversary of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer

This week's pick of interesting reads includes books by @dikshabasu, @NamitaGokhale_ + Malashree Lal, and Arjun Dangle, translated by Maya Pandit
@OrientBlackSwan
@HachetteIndia
@SimonSchusterIN

On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of When We Are Strangers by Vazira Zamindar and Sarnath Banerjee, and The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated by Sirus J Libeiro + an interview with @BarooahNabaarun , author, Land of the Eastern Light; Assam before the Ahoms

Author of Clock Towers of India, @ddggn on how time was measured in ancient India
@niyogibooks
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Debasish Das, author, Clock Towers of India, on the story behind Indian Standard Time. Click on the Youtube link in thread for the full conversation.
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#goodreads #bookstagram #Indianbookstagram #Time #IST

Coucal hiding in kikar #Gurgaon

"Earlier, Indians measured time by the 24 minute 'ghati' and used water clocks. Colonialism brought the 60 minute hour and mechanical clock towers"
- Debashis Das, author, Clock Towers of India, on the many fantastic clock towers across the country. Link in thread
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#podcast

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books &Authors podcast with Debasish Das, author, Clock Towers of India, and to a review of @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted Things We Never Say by @LizStrout
@niyogibooks

The lead pic marks 75 years since China's invasion of Tibet. It shows Chinese troops assembling for the invasion in 1950. The small Tibetan army was decimated. The government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which was ratified by the 14th Dalai Lama on Oct 24 1951.

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by @livetowrite , Justin McCarthy, and Aili Seghetti
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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, and Operation Silkyara: The Untold Story of One of India's Greatest Rescue Missions by @saurabhsherry + an interview with @ruthvikarao, author, All Our Evenings
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Blister beetle on a bush morning glory Ipomoea carnea urf besharm cos it grows everywhere lol native to tropical America #weedoftheday #gurgaon

Got on my bike after ages today. Weather's getting better; hope everything else wl too.🤞Pic 2 is me in biker hijab with Dilli's rakshasas - the paper ones 😉
Pic 3 is cos I want every1 to see my tshirt which says "I work hard cos I want my dog to have a better life" #sachh

"Raghu Rai captured images truthfully. That's the kind of person he was. The work is him and he is his work"
- Gurmeet Sangha Rai talks to me on the Books & Authors podcast about Animals by Raghu Rai, a selection of pictures clicked over the last six decades
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Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Gurmeet Sangha Rai on Raghu Rai's stunning new book, Animals, and to a review of the @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted The End of Everything by M John Harrison
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This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by @japs99, @IpshitaNath and Rumer Godden
@WestlandBooks @speakingtiger14 @HarperCollinsIN

On the @htTweets Books page today, an interview with Deana Heath+ @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors, Policing and Violence in India, a review of @FukuyamaFrancis 's In the Realm of the Last Man + an interview with Sean Hewitt, author, Open, Heaven
@speakingtiger14 @HachetteIndia

"The spirit of bricolage defines Indian public culture. Constant experimentation and the idea of using old material to find new stuff is part of who we are as a people"
- Sanchita Khurana, editor of the @_margfoundation issue on Street Art. Click on link in thread fr conversation

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Sanchita Khurana, editor of the @_margfoundation issue on Street Art, and to a review of Taipei Story by @kuangrf

The lead pic on the page marks 36 years since the reunification of Germany.

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by Shubendra, @nilanjanab and Raza Mir
@AlephBookCo
@PanMacIndia

On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of The Dig by @sowmiyashok and Home in the Dark by Jayanta Dey, translated by Sayari Debnath + an interview with, @minjinlee11, author, American Hagwon

"Chutney is extremely inventive. Even when you have nothing in the kitchen, you can still make a chutney with the bits and bobs you do have"
- @SudhaTilak, author, Chutney Chronicles, talks abt all sorts of mouthwatering chutneys from across the world. Click on link in thread
@BloomsburyIndia

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with @SudhaTilak, author Chutney Chronicles, and to a review of @lea_ypi's Indignity