Suvir Saran

I was meant to be there. In Delhi. At the show. But instead, I watched Kash-Gul unfold in silence, alone in my apartment — and somehow, I saw more than I would’ve seen in the crowd. My new column @IndianExpress for #SpiceOfLife — on Gudda, legacy, and a house reborn. 🔗 indianexpress.com/article/expres…

The New Indian Express @NewIndianXpress today on my latest poetry collection The Alphabets of Africa published by @PenguinIndia. newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/book…

Azerbaijani dancers Shirkhan and Aliya perform a dance on a #Bhojpuri song from #Bihar at the Indian Food Festival organized by the Indian Embassy in #Azerbaijan at the Chancery premises in #Baku today to mark #AnnapurnaDivas. @biharfoundation

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/163670… A profile of @priyankac19 who I respect deeply and find most brilliant.

Dr @ShashiTharoor at 70: Libraries in his mind, kindness in his heart By @suvirsaran Read here at: aninews.in/news/entertain…

At Huemn, Pranav Kirti Misra's label, garment are not “menswear” softened or “womenswear” simplified. They exist on their own terms—designed, deliberate, and deeply aware of their lineage, writes @suvirsaran t.ly/K3xOb

The Embassy of India in Azerbaijan successfully organized a grand Indian Food Festival at the Embassy premises in Baku. Diverse Indian cuisines, cultural performances, and diplomatic engagements highlighted the event... 1/3

“When global narratives are increasingly fractured,The Alphabets of Africa arrives as a quiet act of connection. It reminds us that continents aren’t categories but continuums—that identity is not inherited in isolation but shaped in relation.”—@suvirsaran indianexpress.com/article/books-…

“…a work of profound respect and restless curiosity. This is, as one reviewer aptly puts it, “a love song for a great continent.” But it is also more than that. It is a corrective chorus, a lyrical lens, a poetic act of re-seeing.”—@suvirsaran indianexpress.com/article/books-…

#AssemblyElections2026 - #Bengal Thriller: The Plot Thickens - #MamataBanerjee faces her toughest battle. The latest issue of the magazine is now available. Enjoy good writing and original arguments ~ @prasannara @mjakbar @ShashiTharoor @MakrandParanspe @RajeevDOpen @Suhelseth @Iyr_Adi @vshoba @Sudeeppaul @Ullekh @RachelMJDwyer @lennyspeaks @suvirsaran @lennyspeaks @kavereeb, Amita Shah, Sohini Dey, Amit Kapoor and Sai Sruti Panda, Harsh V Pant, Neelabh Raj and others... openthemagazine.com

“Abhay K.’s language is lush without being indulgent, rhythmic without becoming repetitive. There is an incantatory quality to his lines—a sense that each poem is both invocation and inquiry.”— @suvirsaran in @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/books-…

With the dust from the lotus feet of Guru, I cleanse my mind’s core Narrating Ram’s glory pure who gives us fruits four Son of Wind, being ignorant I pray Grant me intellect, strength, wisdom, take my troubles, flaws away Listen to #HanumanChalisa in English in rhyme & meter

When God has a plan… From selling bhatura chole at Vivek Public School in 1989, to opening Lawrence Garden Banquet from the back of my house in Amritsar in 1990. In 1991, I chose culinary arts— a decision that embarrassed almost everyone except my grandmother. There were years of humiliation I rarely speak about. Moments that nearly broke me. In 2000, when my banquet was torn down, I almost gave up. Instead, I moved to the United States and started over. Cleaning homes. Selling food on the streets of TriBeCa. Sleeping at Grand Central. Experiencing homelessness at NYC Rescue. Sleepless nights. Being called “Curry Boy” on the 7 train. And still, I kept going. From there… 8 Michelin stars. Then losing myself again. Then starting over—one last time as a promise to my sister—with Bungalow. And now… TIME100 Most Influential People in the World 2026. I’m still trying to process it. The journey continues.

“This collection offers both pleasure and provocation. It is at once accessible and ambitious, intimate and expansive. To read The Alphabets of #Africa is to be reminded that language, at its best, does not label the world—it liberates it.”—@suvirsaran indianexpress.com/article/books-…

“The diplomat-poet duality is crucial here. Where a tourist might observe, Abhay K. absorbs. Where a historian might document, he distils. His #Africa is not merely geographical; it is philosophical.”— @suvirsaran indianexpress.com/article/books-…

“Abhay K. has always been a writer of bridges—between past and present, India and the world, poetry and politics. Here, he extends that bridge across Africa, inviting readers not just to cross, but to pause,to listen,to learn.”—@suvirsaran @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/books-…

“Abhay K.’s amazing literary investigation, The Alphabets of Africa, turns the large African continent into a personal lyrical voyage.”— Sagar Naskar

#WarOnIran: The war that no one won and the price of surviving it - The latest issue of the magazine is now available. Enjoy good writing and original arguments. In this issue @prasannara @burke_jason @Chellaney @mjakbar @carlopizzati @MinhazMerchant @RajeevDOpen @poetbadri @rahulpandita @Iyr_Adi @Ullekh @sohinichat @BoriaMajumdar @suvirsaran @lennyspeaks @kavereeb and others...

Before the debates. Before the headlines. There was a community that blessed, protected, and held space in the heart of Indian life for centuries.🙏🏻 @suvirsaran speaks on the Hijra community, their contribution, and the dignity they have always deserved at our latest book club.

#Urdu is not just a language—it is a way of holding the world without hardening against it. A language where sorrow is given structure, where longing is allowed dignity, where despair is spoken with a softness that keeps it from becoming cruelty, writes @suvirsaran t.ly/1TaSf

Miss. Mrs. Ms. They label her based on a man's presence in her life. Meanwhile, he's just "Mr." his entire life. That's not grammar. That's patriarchy.