Paromita Vohra

Look sing love / my yellow fellow 💓

Loved this book for its sheer bookishness, nerdiness, literary-ness. Listened to the author speak at Lit Live and was entranced. Highly cheered by this win 😁

器に餃子を五つ盛り付けて、マティスだ！マティスの「ダンス」だ！と喜んでいたのだけど、冷静に眺めたらさほど似てない。

Finally. The time has come for #MumbaiRains! Pre-monsoon rains have already arrived over South Konkan since last 48-72 hours and are likely to shift north by this weekend. As this happens, Mumbai & surrounding areas are also likely to get rains starting this Friday. Carry umbrellas! ☔

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet. For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission. Her health was treated as a background inconvenience. When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her. She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain. It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops. Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

🚨 Mumbai, Thane & Palghar are officially done with Heatwaves for Summer 2026. No further Heatwave conditions expected this season.

At a time of acute climate crisis, India has chopped down nearly 3 million trees. 3 million! And in just 5 years.

Mumbai metro stations have QR code scanners underground with no wifi and cell connectivity. City is both joke and punchline now.

ノルウェーの画家フリッツ・タウロウ（1847〜1906）の作品。 この透明感はまさに水面の魔術師。

This is the image i will always associate with the Nashik Tryambakeshvar Kumbh Mela from now on. These trees survived at 10-15 Kumbh Mela's, surely providing shelter to many pilgrims over the decades. Couldn't survive Fadnavis raj.

happy birthday lesbian icon madhuri dixit

The wildest part of this conversation isn’t NoFap. It’s realizing how loneliness became anger online. @parodevi told the origins of incel culture while Cyrus delivers emotional damage to married men 💀

Firefly festival at Bhandardara in Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra 💡🦟🌳 🇮🇳

India talks about sex in two modes: silence or scandal. @parodevi joins Cyrus Says to unpack desire, shame, dating, censorship, feminism, Agents of Ishq and why Indians still struggle with honest conversations around intimacy. Funny, chaotic and unexpectedly deep classic @Broacha_Cyrus energy. Watch now.

@RohitavSharma Only rings a very faint bell, but hardly any Channel V stuff or even the early music videos are easy to find online

Does anyone here remember a TV show on Channel V back in 1997 called Toofan TV? Can't find anything on that show on the internet. Does anyone know how many eps of same were made & if they are available anywhere to stream? cc: @parodevi #India #ChannelV #RetroShows

the council of jinn have found humanity lacking in treats and pets

“India has no fixed legal temperature at which work must stop.”

What!

Kanak Mani Dixit on why documentaries & deeply localized stories matter. If you’re a filmmaker from Southasia, of Southasian background, or working on a Southasian story, submit your film to FSA 2026 🎞️ Deadline: June 30, 2026 | Festival: Nov 26-29, 2026 #southasia

Being a guest at Rashtrapati Bhavan

One question from the article makes me very uncomfortable - “Have we not lived here peacefully all our lives? Is living peacefully not development? Mangroves are not vacant land. The coast is not empty space. And the Kolis are not obstacles to modernity. Good piece which takes the development debate ahead by @ameytirodkar