Mehul Devkala

I write front page article of today's The Telegraph @ttindia "How to order Gangasnan of poetry" It talks about writers resistance emerging in Gujarat post Shav vahini Ganga. telegraphindia.com/india/how-to-o… @saliltripathi @ShashiTharoor @SankarshanT @svaradarajan @seemay @tjoseph0010

A Day in the Life of Der Leader | #memefest *Nothing in this bears any resemblance to anyone alive or dead

@PrivyTrifles @saliltripathi Thank you @PrivyTrifles

@MehulDevkala @saliltripathi Brilliant! 👏🏽👏🏽

I’m pleased to share that the Telugu translation of my poem “Aadim Pathharo,” earlier published in Navneet Samarpan and Indian Literature, was featured in Voodayam daily newspaper yesterday (30.03.2026). Translator : Darbhasayanam Srinivasacharya @saliltripathi @PrivyTrifles

Yes those were the days. We at St Stephen’s were the pioneers of these festivals and similarly suffered from under-funding and minimal institutional support for travel. In 1973-74 Ramu Damodaran and I did to IIT Kharagpur what these IITans did to Miranda House, winning the debates and the quizzes, sweeping Best Speaker, Best Play, Best Team and the lot. We repeated the exercise at IIT Bombay’s first-ever cultural festival that winter! theprint.in/feature/iit-bo…

I still remember the quiz at Hindu College in mid-December 1974. The question was who was the only British PM to have been assassinated. Nandan and I were foxed. I took a wild guess and said Robert Peel. The answer was wrong and the other teams also didn’t know. The quiz master threw the question open to the audience. Prompt boomed in a shout from the back: Spencer Percival 1812. The answer was right and it came from none other than Shashi Tharoor. Ram Guha was in the audience and we have shared memories of this quite often.

Na hoyechhe krishi, na holo shilpo... Agriculture could not happen, neither could there be any industry. An elder summed up the fate of the place thus. Indeed, the Singur story is poised between these two nots. telegraphindia.com/life/singur-to…

Cracker of a story in Divya Bhaskar today. Kudos @DevendraBhatn10 Story exposes that 35% of drugs confiscated in last 12 years in a police station has gone missing. They have cited a CAG report. Police claims that some drugs were eaten away by rats! Hilarious! And it is not hilarious that Gujarat Police' tag line is Zero Tolerance to drugs in Gujarat! #Gujarat #sayNOtoDrugs

This explains why I kept a safe distance from Modi from the time he assumed power in May 2014. I did not even go to gift him a copy of my book on him. Just sent an unsigned copy through his favourite bureaucrat Bharat Lal! The names of women who were made MPs and ministers by Modi due to intimacy with him were being whispered loudly enough within Sanghi power networks right at the outset. That is why I took precautions very early on. The names of those like Hardeep Puri who provided him special services while he was Gujarat CM were also being shared in hushed tones as soon as Hardeep and Jaishankar were included in the Cabinet! In 2014, when I went for lectures to America, there too tales of his aiyyashi were doing the rounds. Appointment of 12th pass Smriti Irani as Education Minister had given credence to other scandals, till then hidden from public view. The scandal involving Mansi Soni had already reached the Supreme Court. Someone close to Modi gave me a whole set of papers submitted in the Supreme Court by the incarcerated IAS officer who too was having a rollicking time with Soni. In addition, people from Gujarat, including some of those close to Modi, shared with me disgusting stories of his sickly dalliances with women while he was Gujarat CM. And earlier while he was pracharak and BJP office bearer! Hearing those stories, I became so averse to his presence that I avoided even those functions, including marriage receptions, where Modi was likely to show up! So traumatized I was by the gory accounts that I actually sank into deep depression in 2014 which deeply impacted my health. Went for 21 days to an Ayurvedic healing centre in Coimbatore in 2015 in the hope of recovering from multiple shocks. I remember when I shared my grief at the reports I was hearing with a very senior RSS intellectual, he shrugged it off saying, "why are you so shocked? Why should his personal life bother any of us?" The appointment of #pornpeddler Amit Malviya as BJP's Social Media incharge was yet another proof of the inclinations of the top bosses of BJP! I might have overlooked his predatory sexual conduct, if he had done well on other fronts. But his aggressive peddling of genocidal vaccines and brazen attempts at crushing Hindu samaj and demonizing Hindu dharma, his outrageous patronage of Bheemtas and Meemtas to launch lethal attacks on Hindus, his slavish conduct vis a vis the Globalist Mafia, his devilish conduct in persecuting Hindus during the Kathua Kand (described in detail in my book The Girl From Kathua, A Sacrificial Victim of GhazwaE Hind) and much else, made me realize in the first term itself that we are saddled with a Satanic ruler, a CIA plant who has been put in power to wreck India, and decimate Hindus! Modi's personality disorders have convinced me that we should pay far more attention to sexual corruption of our leaders. Those who are compromised on this front very easily succumb to blackmail by enemies of Bharat, than those who are financially corrupt! Will soon provide proof of how he is being blackmailed from day one. Hence the vulgar 56 inchiya boasts!

Two respected writers and MPs protesting outside Parliament over the LPG price rise. Good to see both of them standing on the right side of history. ✊🇮🇳 @ShashiTharoor @salma_poet

Birthday wishes to the legendary artist Jyoti Bhatt Sir on turning 92 today. An epitome of simplicity, wisdom, and creativity, he continues to inspire generations. Wishing him good health and happiness always. 🙏🎨

Shashi Tharoor is a great man, he is supporting Sanju Samson since he was 11 years old. Sanju’s father thanked him and wished him a long life.

Happy 70th birthday to @ShashiTharoor. Statesman, prolific author, and above all a wonderful human being. I feel fortunate to have known him personally and to have learned so much from our interactions over the years. Wishing him continued health and inspiration ahead.

My dearest brother, @ShashiTharoor, I’m sorry that I’m not with you in person to celebrate your special birthday but I’m with you in spirit. This poem comes from the heart & is a small declaration of your place in my life. May the year ahead be full of the blessings you deserve.

Welcome March !!

@jai_shiven @sahitya_tak Congratulations

साहित्य और शब्दों से जुड़े श्रम और काम के लिए मिला 'स्पंदन साहित्यिक पत्रकारिता सम्मान' पुस्तक संस्कृति के लिए किए गए मेरे प्रयासों की एक स्वीकृति है. मैं आयोजकों, चयन समिति, मित्रों, शुभेच्छुओं और @sahitya_tak 'बुक कैफे' के श्रोताओं के प्रति आदर, कृतज्ञता, आभार से भरा हूं.💐

Excited to be hosting a workshop on Reading Like a Writer at The Story Company India next month. To know more and to register: kiranmanral.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/rea…

#WATCH | Kottayam, Kerala: On Union Cabinet approves proposal to rename Kerala as ‘Keralam’, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "It has already been 'Keralam' in Malayalam. So now, a Malayalam word is coming in English. I don't know what difference it makes. The Govt has not given us an AIIMS, has not given us any new institutions...they have given us no projects in the Union Budget. But when it comes to a name change, they are willing to authorise it. That is what is happening between our Govt at the Centre and Govt in the State."

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Delighted to hold in my hands the 50th edition of #TheGreatIndianNovel! When @PenguinIndia first published it in September 1989, neither they nor I could have imagined that one day people who were not yet born then would be reading it — and do so with enough enthusiasm to warrant reprinting it fifty times. Gratified and humbled by this honour.

In his Vadodara studio, he can often be found painting alongside younger artists in a collaborative, almost Karkhana-like workshop reminiscent of the Mughal period, nurturing talent and illuminating the world around him. My piece from @the_hindu @ShashiTharoor @saliltripathi