Vansa David

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Vansa David

Vansa David

@vansadee

I am but a boson warping the space-time continuum. Proud to be allowed to breathe the same air as @peeyuka

Bombay Katılım Mart 2012
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@PhilipPanass @bookworm_Kris Discounts can only be offered by online behemoths because of massive economies of scale.And a squeezing of margins paid to authors, the people who write the books.Nobody asks movie theatres for discounts,they're large corporate retail chains.why ask a bookstore for one?
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Mad Milton
Mad Milton@PhilipPanass·
@bookworm_Kris At-least two of the book-stores you mention give no discount unless you are purchasing above a certain amount, and even then a flat 10% discount. Meh.
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Bookworm Bookstore, Blr
Bookworm Bookstore, Blr@bookworm_Kris·
Order online is your wish but small independent bookstore also sells same book with discounts & delivery like Walking BookFair, Rachana, Champaca, Dogears, Blossom, Atta Galata, Luna Books, Storyteller & more. Humble request from Bookworm team to support your local bookstore 🙏🏽
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Pulp Librarian
Pulp Librarian@PulpLibrarian·
Absolute Beginners, by Colin MacInnes. Penguin Books, 1964. Cover by Peter Blake.
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@tranche_cheddar @JoseMLuna Exactly!Was just going to respond with that-I disliked the first movie because it ruined the sharpness of the book by actually making her a deeply misunderstood careerwoman instead of a shallow tyrant.This one seems even worse
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assigned capricorn at birth@tranche_cheddar·
@JoseMLuna to be fair the original movie adaptation has a much more favorable-look of the fashion industry already vs. the book it was based from
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@VidyaKrishnan That's actually not true about Indian Express-they've been doing an entire series on the LPG crisis, since the middle of March.Have covered all of this,it's been on the front page of their paper,the online editions,journalists have tweeted about it.
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Vidya
Vidya@VidyaKrishnan·
Indian journalists are doing a repeat of COVID. This war is gutting through smaller cities, gig workers etc & there is zero coverage besides the sale of induction stoves/LPG crisis in urban areas.
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Vidya@VidyaKrishnan·
The fact that we are getting this news from intl outlets should shame every newspaper in this country. @IndianExpress allegedly our best, has no sign of this alarming job loss. But sure. @rajkamaljha will come down from his ivory tower to punch that Galgotia lady;. Laanat hai.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Apocalyptic economic fallout. NHK confirms Trump's disastrous war has completely paralyzed India's massive textile industry. With 90% of their LPG imports choked off at the Strait of Hormuz, HALF A MILLION workers just lost their jobs. The global supply chain is collapsing.

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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@Tyler_A_Harper @nataliapetrzela There's an excellent book on this by Virginia Nicholson!It's called 'How was it for you'.Focuses in her area of expertise which is the Swinging 60s in London but actually covers this really well.I blogged about it here:@vansadee/history-extra-podcast-women-in-the-60s-cfcfb5bd2728" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vansadee/hist…
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
I wrote about Lindy West. Her memoir, in which she is guilt-tripped into polyamory by a husband who vaguely implies that monogamy is racist, is a cautionary tale about turning marriage into a political project. Her polyamory is just the coastal lib version of being a tradwife. 🧵
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic

In her memoir, Lindy West describes how she went from resisting polyamory to embracing it—but her version of it is strangely politicized, @Tyler_A_Harper argues: “She doesn’t seem enlightened. She seems to have been wheedled into buying a fantasy.” theatlantic.com/family/2026/03…

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Ritika Chopra
Ritika Chopra@RitikaChopra__·
Mumbai built its best public transport where people own the most cars. Its worst? Where people have no other option. New IIT Bombay study explains why your commute is the way it is. 🧵 @IndianExpress (1/10)
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@RealEmirHan I think The Americans has some absolutely amazing sequences set to excellent music, 2 involving Fleetwood Mac songs. Also The Bureau has amazing set pieces, with great soundtracks.I also thought One Tree Hill had some excellent needle drops,one set to Run!
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Vansa David@vansadee·
@27Yeep As you've said, it was...quite obvious from her performance,and her even saying"the name of my dead son",that's she's overwhelmed by the thought that this is a..fictional version of her child on this stage,including Shakespeare's bit of improv when he clocks Agnes in the audience
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Yeep_27@27Yeep·
@hecubian_devil I think it's actually because she was profoundly moved by the play being about her dead son, hence the premise and title of the film But go off I guess
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Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
Still completely baffled by this sequence where Buckley decides to play Agnes—wife of a playwright—as an infant seeing a play for the first time, or perhaps someone raised by wolves being reintroduced to human society. It goes on for what feels like 20 minutes. It’s unbearable.
isha@scriptedcore

tears in my eyes can’t believe this is life

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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@hrstylearchive What stood out for me was what a lovely person Jean Marais was,and what an absolutely perfect boyfriend.
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𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 ❧@hrstylearchive·
I’m currently reading Jean Cocteau’s diary he kept when filming Beauty and the Beast (1946) and these entries were so sweet 🥹
𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 ❧ tweet media𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 ❧ tweet media𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 ❧ tweet media𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 ❧ tweet media
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@shivani_1970 @nehavermani From what I remember of my school French, rice is riz and roti is roasting - rotisserie chicken for instance.Pois I think are peas.
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Neha@nehavermani·
Not what you’d expect a 19th-century dinner hosted by the Maharaja of Baroda for the Maharaja of Gwalior to look or taste like, featuring truffles, artichokes, and way too many fancy French names & stuff.
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@AAnonimatvm @WeirdMedieval Please give the History Extra podcast episode on Assassins a listen, if you haven't already, not really a " militant death cult"! More like a minority that came up with a way to protect themselves.
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Anonimvs Anonimatvm@AAnonimatvm·
@WeirdMedieval The Iman of the Nizari Order (ie. Assassins) got a concession of the Grand Master of the Order of Christ (ie. Templars) to build its Diwan on Lisbon, in 2015. I wonder what Hassan al-Sabah would think about this...
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weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval·
One of the most interesting monarchs fr: Imam of what arose as an insane esoteric militant death cult in the 11/12 century that lost all their land and eventually got adopted by the British for political maneuvering and now are basically ethnically French
The Prince and Princess of Wales@KensingtonRoyal

A pleasure to welcome His Highness The Aga Khan to Kensington Palace this morning, spiritual leader of the Shia Nizari Ismaili Muslims.

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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@fasc1nate So Humpty Dumpty being an egg is only after John Tenniel decided to draw him that way?
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Fascinating@fasc1nate·
Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King’s horses And all the King’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” So far, the story is quite simple. But, there is a much wider story to how this nursery rhyme came into existence and developed over five or six hundred years. Learn more: bit.ly/4s0xaAY
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Neha
Neha@nehavermani·
No William Dalrymple, the greatest intellectual/historian for many, was hurt in this podcast where Meera Visvanathan patiently breaks down how trained historians understand, peel layers of, & write about the ancient period. Watch the entire interview on YouTube.
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@PulpLibrarian Interesting. I started reading Michael Kohlhaas after reading that The Axe was inspired by that, this book also seems inspired by that!
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Pulp Librarian@PulpLibrarian·
The Outfit (1973). Based on the book by Donald E. Westlake, Robert Duvall plays ex-con Earl Macklin taking on The Mob after they kill his brother in revenge for Eddie robbing a bank they own. It's a tough, brisk neo-noir straight from the pulps. Duvall calculates how much The Mob owes him for killing his brother and starts robbing them in payback. Mob boss Jake Menner does everything he can to deal with Macklin, but the guy just won't stop until he gets what he wants.
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Seb Aron@aron_seb85252·
@Baddiel Was she married to Amis Snr & is it about him?
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David Baddiel@Baddiel·
This novel is fantastic.
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@WeirdMedieval Absolutely!I think about this so often!I would love to be at the..start of it all.Writing,double entry bookkeeping,religion,the idea of writing down an imaginary story.
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weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval·
do you ever get pissed OFF that you're not a mesopotamian from the fertile fucking crescent
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weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval·
you absolutely have to respect cuneiform. if i writing didn't exist yet i never could have come up with this from scratch. and that's on me
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Into The Forest Dark
Into The Forest Dark@ElliottBlackwe3·
J.R.R. Tolkien's illustration for his book 'Letters From Father Christmas'
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Peter Benson
Peter Benson@bensonpeter20·
@SketchesbyBoze @OUPAcademic I can't help not liking 'blossom' here - it doesn't mean the same as 'en fleur', but I don't know what an appropriate English phrase would be.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
The new editions of In Search of Lost Time currently being published by @OUPAcademic are a revelation. Proust has often been ill-served by his translators. Astonishing in their clarity, weirdness and humor, these books are destined to become the definitive English versions.
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Vansa David@vansadee·
@SketchesbyBoze @OUPAcademic Ill-served by Scott Moncrieff?!That's a very strange thing to say about a truly great and beloved translation that was probably what introduced Proust to many people.
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Vansa David
Vansa David@vansadee·
@internetarchive I haven't been able to log on all day,and I haven't been able to work all day because it's making me so anxious!!So no pressure,but please reassure your devoted fanbase that everything's ok and will be back on track soon!
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