
Nandini Nair
@nandininai
Books and culture editor Open Magazine. Formerly @columbiajourn
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Banu Mushtaq is too skilled a writer and too erudite a thinker to wield her stories as tools of either ideology or propaganda. By bringing together the folkloric & the contemporary these stories are truly timeless. openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/f… #InternationalBooker2025 Penguin India

I analyse here the truly pioneering role of Mahatma Phule, as a thinker, a social reformer and an organiser - beyond controversies. King's India Institute BASAS Carnegie India The Dalit Voice Dalit Times | दलित टाइम्स NCDHR All India OBC Students Association (AIOBCSA) Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi Bahujan Samaj Party thewire.in/caste/it-is-ti…

Nobel prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah speaks about his first novel Bloomsbury India since the prize, the balance btw debt & gratitude. And exile and colonialism openthemagazine.com/special/coloni…

#BillAitken (1934 – 2025): Man of the Mountains - The Scottish author who made India his home immortalised the high peaks and distant roads, writes Nandini Nair openthemagazine.com/feature/bill-a…


I remember reading Seven Sacred Rivers nearly 20 years. Somehow #BillAitken always stayed in one's mind. He truly was a Sufi Scotsman, a lapsed monk, a tireless traveller, a prolific writer Penguin India Permanent Black openthemagazine.com/feature/bill-a…


Must read this essay on the real Sir Sankaran Nair if you’ve watched Kesari 2. The film is worth a watch, even if it takes more than a few liberties with history. Nandini Nair openthemagazine.com/feature/truth-…

Manto’s stories continue to be relevant today because they show how, when neighbouring countries rage at each other, it is the everyman who suffers #Manto #IndiaPakistan Read the story by Nandini Nair here 👇 tinyurl.com/2c9uvj4w



This Sunday at 5 PM: #ArshiaSattar will be in conversation with Nandini Nair at Pagdandi, for a special #TalkingBooksPune session on #Vasanta — a tender retelling of classical #Sanskrit plays. juggernautbooks #VasantaAtPagdandi


openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/r… Green Humour brings #nature to us is in a way that is both relatable and majestic, his new juggernautbooks does that with finesse



Wonderful weekend event in Pune with Nandini Nair for her Talking Books series. Discussed books, history, and (unexpectedly) some reproductive technologies. Much laughter too through the morning.
