Patna Sweets & Chaat Bhandaar

Thank you. I really appreciate all the encouragement as I think of turning this into a longer project.

@veena_logue Yess! You'd love it

@marxofblade I hope I read it one day¡

On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle

I read it when it was published, and have found myself returning back to it frequently for various reasons, and it's nice to see it getting the recognition it deserves @debhartha equator.org/articles/from-…

I think there’s some sort of virus that emits out of those steel factories of Tata that makes people of jamshedpur incredibly dumb, and you’d find those people on the internet making stupid statements like ‘south indian food of jamshedpur is better than what you get in south.’

thomas Bernhard is a genius

leonard cohen thank you for saving my life

we live not only in a market economy, but more generally in a market society where all human relationships with the world are mediated through a simple numerical calculation involving attractiveness, novelty and value for money - houellebecq

whoever said to baez that her poetry was lousy should have disappeared from the public life forever but instead he's selling some ai generated lectures on patreon

No one writes film criticism like Richard Brody

No surprise that all the Indian cricketers, except for one (don't know his name but he's Sikh) show no respect for labour. Wonder how that is so ingrained? Well that would be the caste system.

@lolopantz Yes. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard blew my mind recently. Edouard Leve's Suicide was amazing. Love Me Tender by Constance Debre. Edouard Louis' Who Killed by Father is another one I'd recommend.

Majority of journalists who have a problem with presence of influencers and youtubers in cricket press boxes, ceased to 'journalists' yrs ago. At best they were columnists or publishing what PR was telling them to. Now their masters have found people with more reach...

the world was better and more bearable when @/supriyan used to write on sports

@lolopantz the awareness of the limitations of autofiction as a form has made me critical but not entirely averse to this lol. Some of my best reads in the last few months fall under this

@veena_logue Great band, they recently played a show in mumbai and it was great i heard

@marxofblade The earth below is good 🥬

I think Dirge is the best metal band to come out of this country.

a reminder to self to start on the calculation of volume soon. Fire season by bad boy moralist (as @D_felsenthal says) gary indiana too.

A very bleak and terrible day awaits, where certain things that I thought I had buried long ago have recoiled to just throw me off. Caffeine and cigarettes are going to be my friend.