Simar Bhasin

A dream come true! An essay on @SelmaDabbagh 's works, which is very close to my heart, found a home in @WasafiriMag 's latest issue. Sharing the link for the article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Please DM if you wish to read it nd don't have access. Thank you!

Spoke to Dr. Tillotson on the sidelines of the @Jaigarhfestival Edits: @utterflea @TeamworkArts #CityPalace #JaigarhFort #Jaipur hindustantimes.com/s/1OyFEPo

Step inside Wasafiri’s 125th issue, where we explore ‘Living in the Melancholony’: navigating the structures and emotional affect of life under a colonial, racial capitalist gaze and legacy. Learn more about the issue and order here: buff.ly/pcNWTmh

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

@utterflea Exactly! This is what we should have been taught in schools :) it would have made learning so much fun! I have also downloaded the Merlin app which recognizes bird calls and tells me which ones are around with pics and names. It is so fascinating!

@simarb_92 Its my new obsession and I feel very virtuous cos its ACTUALLY educational 😂😂

Ive being going mad identifying weeds and wildflowers with Google Lens. Surprising how many weeds from the Americas we have here!

My report on the @Jaigarhfestival and the cultural renaissance afoot in Jaipur in preparation for the city completing 300 years in 2027 Edits: @utterflea hindustantimes.com/books/report-j… @TheManganiyar @paponmusic @TeamworkArts @stonex_global @kabircafelive

In conversation with novelist and poet #OmarMusa on his book #Fierceland for @the_hindu @PenguinIndia @penguinrandom

Omar Musa on his novel Fierceland, a “deliberate critique” of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness ✍️Simar Bhasin thehindu.com/books/intervie…

It was a wonderful experience presenting a paper on @sarvathasin at the annual convention of @northeastMLA

free access pdfs of some palestinian historical books to read in your free time to educate yourself, friends, loved ones, coworkers, etc 📚🇵🇸 a thread:

Longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize, Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, trans. by Faridoun Farrokh, is a magical realist novel on five Iranian women across different social classes. Read the novel's opening: buff.ly/pFK1nAO

@writerly_life Thank you for your more than kind words, Saurabh ☺️

... and she deserves a space as a moderator or panellist in such festivals, for, at least in my view, there are select celebrity moderators who bring nothing to the table — they even make it obvious that they haven’t read s*** in their lives

A wonderful report by my friend @simarb_92 with an excellent heading by @utterflea in response to that lit BS in the capital G. I would love for festivals like @JaipurLitFest to recognise that people like Simar have been critiquing books for ages now ...

@utterflea @sanitarypanels Loved this!

"Through my comics and essays, I'm trying to reach people who have the same privileges as I do; those who ignore politics because it benefits them" - Rachita Taneja aka @sanitarypanels, author, Touching Grass, on Indian social hypocrisy and more #podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5068ZH…

@utterflea @htTweets @JaipurLitFest Love the JLF report headline! Thank you :)

On the @htTweets Books page today, a review of Anisur Rahman’s The Essential Mir, an interview with Tom Freston, author, Unplugged, Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu, and a report on @JaipurLitFest 2026

My report on this year's @JaipurLitFest for @utterflea at @HindustanTimes @htTweets hindustantimes.com/books/report-j…

James Clifford Kent has photographed Cuba for over 20 years, capturing the resilience, endurance, and survival of an increasingly threadbare Revolution. Read the Art piece on this body of work in the latest issue of Wasafiri: buff.ly/ppFKuhH

Spoke to Aishwarya Jha and Sara Abdullah Pilot on #KahaaniDilliKi festival and their joint venture, Indophile: For @utterflea at @htTweets hindustantimes.com/books/on-delhi…