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" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me " ~ C. S. Lewis

More anti-India stories in the western media. We must discard this Euro-centric method of measuring heat and create our own standards.

I hate an uneducated hater. Do some research, bitch.

I hope, I really do hope I see a Nuremberg Trial in my lifetime

Struggling with all the Mother's Day posts and pictures. Somedays the heart just won't listen.

“Ei Didi ! Kaan Khol Kar Sun Lo!”! Return of the marauding arsonist & murderer who will keep Bengal & her women safe. @AmitShah- once a Gunda always a Gunda.

🚨Scam Alert: Had a lapse of judgement & got tricked into dialing *21*08292411392# → call forwarding activated → Immediately dialled ##21# to deactivate. Activated 2FA & checked accounts. Really scared. Don't know what fresh hell awaits. @Cyberdost @GoI_MeitY @DelhiPolice

@appadappajappa Count me in!

If you read non-fiction and want to be a part of a Telegram group where you can share and discuss what you’re reading, DM me 😊 Trying to revive this group!

So.. every 3rd post on Instagram is an ad, half the tweets here are ads, Pinterest unusable because of ads, WhatsApp filled with ad spam, YouTube’s getting unskippable ads, Prime & Jio have ads interrupting even if you pay, Netflix introducing ads.. everything is a cricket jersey

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.

Perfect time to ignore litbait articles and read authors who, unaccountably, live here...

Trevor Noah's latest Joy in The Trenches is really bad. Big fan of Trevor but this was excruciatingly painful.

This is also why/because we don’t take writers based in India seriously. As readers we read what the West tells us to, even now. ‘A Suitable Boy’ became a big thing after the US market fetishised it. We desperately need to read more Indian fiction. timesnownews.com/lifestyle/book…

Have you heard the sparrows? have you seen the robins? and gray sidewalks and pale grass. bluejays, chickadees, nuthatches, and mourning doves. eastern gray squirrels, fox and red squirrels. grackles, bluebirds, downys, starlings. finches flickers muskrats red-wing blackbirds

Ocean Vuong is a poet, novelist, and professor at NYU. This is the anti writing with AI conversation. It's about breaking free from technology and convention in order to see the world fresh again, and then make beautiful art about what you see. Some highlights: 1) "We're out here to write sentences the species has never encountered, and it's possible in this lifetime." 2) "Eighty percent of writing is looking and thinking. The last part is syntax." 3) "When you have a sentence, what you really have is consciousness filtered through syntax. For every single person, it's different." And below are all the things we talked about, in the form of timestamps: 1:40 Writing metaphors 4:52 The problem with writing workshops 13:02 How AI changed writing 23:32 Why did writing get so rigid? 28:04 Rescue the cliche! 32:06 Seeing vs. recognizing 34:37 80% of writing isn't writing 41:31 What makes sentences memorable 50:31 Poetry as a testing ground for writers 1:02:30 Synchronic vs diachronic reading 1:09:03 Daringness and disobedience 1:14:27 The limits of language I've shared the full interview with Ocean below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.

Last call for registrations for these two workshops for the weekend. Reading Like a Writer – Learning Craft from South Asian Masters with @PrivyTrifles March 14 | 11 AM IST | 2 hrs | Online Fee: Rs 2500/- World-Building Workshop with @MeetiShroff Shah March 15 | 10 AM to 1 PM IST | 3 hrs | Online Fee: Rs 3000/- DM for details

Feature: "Most Indians don't read for pleasure – so why does the country have 100 literature festivals?" in The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

If there's one thing I've mastered in this life, it is how to waste time.

@istanbul547 How cold is istanbul right now

Insurgents inspired by Mao Zedong, who once controlled a spine running through India, are a shadow of themselves. But violence still looms. Grievances underlying one of the world’s longest-running armed struggles remain unresolved. (Gift link) wapo.st/4mcNFFO