Literary critic, research scholar. Words on words in Hindustan Times, TNIE, Indian Express,The Hindu. ACJ alum @simardecember on Instagram for all things books
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Our new series, Common Interests, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel!
Our first interviewee is @lolaolufemi_. A writer, researcher, and organiser, Lola speaks to @yazzarf about power dynamics within the publishing industry and much more.
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My review of Taipei Story by @kuangrf for @utterflea at @htTweets @HindustanTimes :
Since before the publication of Yellowface, the book that launched a thousand opinion pieces, the author has constantly drawn attention to and critiqued the Establishment
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The author of Yellowface and Katabasis returns with a novel that looks at ideas of identity, subjectivity and belonging: @simarb_92 reviews Taipei Story by @kuangrf
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Decades ago, Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag read a story by Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in English translation. “My mind instinctively filled the gaps and created a meaningful literary experience.” Hyphen, a new literary journal founded and published by Shanbhag, is driven by the belief that it is both possible and necessary to make such encounters available to a much wider readership.
✍️@readingkafka
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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Anant Sonawane’s Maya: The
Biography of a Tiger, and @alakaskinner's Persian Nights + an interview with @MarcusduSautoy, author, Blueprints; How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
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:“Shakespeare was also a number nerd”
- @MarcusduSautoy, author, Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity, talks to @simarb_92 about the connections between the realms of mathematics, creative art and nature
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Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.
Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?
We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.
Stay with me....
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Three of the six books on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist explore masculinity and male sexuality. Interestingly, last year’s Booker Prize winner, David Szalay, also placed modern masculinity at the centre of his story, Flesh.
@radhikasan ✍️thehindu.com/books/masculini…
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The Election Commission is three people, not ONE: a Chief and two Election Commissioners, equal in rank.
By law they decide together. Unanimously if they can, by majority if they can't. Two of three is a majority.
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Discussing Luke Kennard's @TheBookerPrizes longlisted novel in the upcoming Booker Book club meet! DM for the link to the GMeet
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Last week, Bajrang Dal members tore up Malala Yousafzai's book. Over the last month, rare books have been flying off bookshelves around the world to land at warehouses and have their spines sliced by AI companies to feed ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. An oped on the many ways in which we destroy books and the new ways in which we'll need to protect them.
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Congratulations to all shortlistees, and to the Caine Prize for their continued work amplifying African writers and their stories!
The Caine Prize for African Writing is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 edition:
🇰🇪Gladwell Pamba
🇨🇲Melara Mvogdobo
🇳🇬Akinwande Jordan
🇪🇬Yasmine Zohdi
🇿🇼Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza
For more, visit: caineprize.com/shortlist
#CainePrize2026
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Ingrid Rojas Contreras speaks to prolific Mexican author @ValeriaLuiselli about the 'gorgeous nesting dolls' of Luiselli's many works of fiction and nonfiction, particularly her latest novel, BEGINNING MIDDLE END (@4thEstateBooks).
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ALT A map of Sicily and the surrounding islands. On top of this are photos of Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Valeria Luiselli. Ingrid is on the left and has dark, long, centre-parted hair. She wears dangly gold earrings and a white sheer top. Valeria has dark hair, centre-parted, and tied at the back. She wears dangly earrings and a blue silk jacket over a grey top. Underneath their photos, red text on a cream background reads: One Book Leads to Another: An Interview with Valeria Luiselli
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We're delighted to announce two partnered events with our good friends @BhamLitFest. Both panels will be chaired by Wasafiri's Editor and Publishing Director @SansyG, with the conversations centring place, landscape, and belonging.
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ALT Pale green background. Headline reads: Landscapes of resistance. Subheading: Tahmima Anam and Ibtisam Azem in conversation with Sana Goyal. Underneath are photos of two authors and two book covers.
ALT Pale green background. Headline reads: Voices From Our Regions. Subheading: Laura Blake, Manish Chauhan, & Sufiyaan Salam in conversation with Sana Goyal . Underneath are photos of three authors.
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Our autumn 2026 issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities, is available to order now!
Can storytelling play a role in liberation? Read through powerful interviews, poetry, life writing, and fiction on encampments, the university, protest, and more.
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Qurratulain Hyder is considered a pioneer in modern Urdu writing with a repertoire that includes short stories, novels, and works in translation. A Tilt in Time: Partition & Pakistan — a mid-century memoir (Women Unlimited Ink) is the English translation by scholar Fatima Rizvi of Parts 12 to 15 of Hyder’s autobiographical work Kar-e Jahan Daraz Hai (volume II) and traverses the decade just after Partition.
✍️Simar Bhasin
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And Simar Bhasin's review is here:
Hyder describes her relatives who migrated from Nehtaur in Uttar Pradesh to Pakistan as “being akin to the pilgrim fathers of the Mayflower”. What she archives is not the traumatic series of events that unfolded with the announcement of Partition, but rather, how the everyday was experienced by those who lived through this mass displacement. @simarb_92 google.com/amp/s/www.thehind…
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An Independence Day special in today's non fiction books page: @aroomofwords on @josyjosephkj's Birth of a Nation (@WestlandBooks) and @simarb_92 on Qurratulain Hyder's A Tilt in Time (@unlimited_women)
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Call for Papers: My colleague Juie and I have proposed a seminar for the upcoming (virtual component) of the @ACLAorg annual meet. The seminar is titled '(Re)Imagining Trans: Mappings, Crossings, and Tracings'
More details: acla.org/seminar/52305caf-ba…
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Thought to sneak in quickly to share that my book is finally reviewed by @simarb_92 on HINDUSTAN TIMES . @utterflea @htTweets @kan_writersside
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