Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp: Selected Stories’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first work from Kannada to be on the shortlist of the International The Booker Prizes! And Other Stories Penguin India

कुछ इश्क़ किया कुछ काम किया.

The newly launched Penguin Archive from is a dream collection of 90 books from 90 years of publishing by Penguin Books UK. Here's why (my translation of) Rabindranath Tagore is one of the 90. waterstones.com/blog/enter-the…

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Last week, delivered a keynote presentation at Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing on all things chaotic/ecstatic in contemporary Delhi’s 'parallel'/(im)permanent book spaces.

On the Sunday Book Bazaar in #Hyderabad: There’s something powerful about #secondhand or “preloved” books. Retired from libraries— with due date slips and call numbers— like this one from the Fateh Maidan Club Library. Others inheritances too of scribbled names, flattened

Career Update: I've joined the School of Liberal Studies at BML Munjal University.

Presented my working paper tracing how books, bodies, and the city’s built form co-produce Old Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazaar—a dynamic market that challenges the idea of a fixed ‘field’ and asks us to see ethnography itself as theory in motion. CRASSH, Cambridge Cambridge University BML Munjal University (BMU)

all for a zoom call.

Book mail! 🐧

Tomorrow, with the lovely Claire Chambers @clarachambara.bsky.social/ ✨️ Zoom link (8:30 PM IST): york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96158613688?…

This gives me so much joy! :')

My essay, "Becoming in Translation, for Usawa Literary Review: usawa.in/issue-13/non-f…

The first four volumes in the INDIAN LIVES series, curated by me and published by HarperCollins. Each the work of an acclaimed scholar, each deeply researched as well as elegantly written.

Tomorrow/ 3 July 2025/ Delhi. skillboxes.com/events/nerd-ni…

#90skids

In "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar," the author Kanupriya Dhingra, in her introduction, describes the Daryaganj Sunday Book Market as "a site of resilience and possibilities," and frankly I haven't heard a better description of any book selling space.

And a stalwart of Urdu scholarship is gone. If you read one thing today, let it be Naim Sahab’s path-breaking article “Prize-Winning Adab” franpritchett.com/00litlinks/nai…

Out today, 20 July: Believer’s Dilemma—the second volume of my study on Vajpayee and the Hindu Right. Now available at bookshops! (Most of them are happy to ship across lands and oceans.) Please do share it with friends or family who might be interested in something like this.

In her book, author Kanupriya Dhingra captures the charm, legacy, and nostalgia of Old Delhi’s iconic Sunday book bazaar and its transformation. Read this review by Majid Maqbool: asiasentinel.com/p/lost-world-o…