manjula narayan

My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery #Father'sDay

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

@ratisre 🙂🙏🙏

@utterflea I understand this joy🌸.

This morning, saw a whole bunch of hornbills in the middle of skyscraper-nightmare Gurgaon. I feel like I could die happy today lol

@sudhikothapalli Yes, cities are painful mostly 🙂

@utterflea Joyful encounters such as these gladdens one's heart in the stark barren city landscape.

@prernao2 🙂🙏🙏🙏

@utterflea May you live a hundred years to see not just bunches of hornbills, but many many more birds, animals and humans who care for the environment.

@adityeah Sounds like heaven.

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

@adityeah So much to read. I feel so ignorant all the time 😂 Will read thanks 🙏

@adityeah Ugh I meant *that are even better

@adityeah Superb. Ive been getting so many great suggestions of other apps that so even better things

@adityeah But this Dallas Grass is supposed to b v good fr pollinators so maybe u shld embrace it

@birdcountindia Yes will try it too. Thanks 🙂 🙏🙏

@utterflea Wonderful! Do give iNaturalist a try. It's less likely to make ID mistakes than Google lens, also takes into account your location and what others have been reporting from the vicinity. inaturalist.org

@artidwarkadas Many thanks to you fr introducing me to it 😄🙏🙏

@utterflea It's insanely addictive 🙂

Full of lyrical intensity, 32 years after it was first published in March 1994, Bill Aitken’s The Nanda Devi Affair continues to be as readable as ever. @writerly_life revisits this work on the heightened spiritual energies of the mountains hindustantimes.com/books/remember…

"The way I look at it, whydunit is actually more important than whodunit... Because what drives the person?" - Salil Desai, author, 206 Bones talks to me on the Books&Authors podcast abt his tight police procedurals set in Pune. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1Rokg4…

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes a novel that looks at the ways in which people attempt to leave a mark on the world, another set in contemporary Pakistan, and a book that looks at Islam in Malabar hindustantimes.com/books/ht-picks…

"This volume does a good job of introducing the Indian English reader to Kerala’s short-story tradition." - Priyanka Sarkar reviews The Second Marriage of Kunju Namboodiri & Other Classic Malayalam Stories hindustantimes.com/books/review-t…

“It is easier to be an activist than to be a politician” @LeoVaradkar, former PM of Ireland and author of Speaking My Mind talks to @chintanwriting about being a gay politician, growing up mixed race, and why his country supports its writers hindustantimes.com/books/leo-vara…