Very excited to have Dayanita Singh's new book called Book Building arrive in the post. Love this picture of her Pocket Museum: "a jacket with nine pockets, sized to fit one accordion-fold book each. On the back of the jacket she had the words 'MY LIFE AS A MUSEUM' embroidered".

"I only had one home, either here in Sri Lanka or in the world. Now that only home has been burned down. But my biggest wealth and treasure was my library. There were 2500 books", says #SriLanka PM Ranil Wickremasinghe about his house being burned along with valuable books

In Dayanita Singh’s latest photo-novel, Let’s See (pub. Steidl, 26th May 2022), she revisits the earliest years of her archive – looking back at the images she created when she did not yet consider herself a photographer. Dayanita Singh Steidl

We set off into a promising new world with a magical book of verse and prose by one of India's finest writers. Can't wait to have you all read it. Karthika V.K. Ajitha GS saurabh garge Sonia Madan amrita talwar Aatreyee Westland Books

1/8. Was Independence the gift of a few Oxbridge elites? As Gandhi put it, not great men, but ‘the people themselves are the cause’ of revolutions. My book The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin) out in November, looks at 16 such people. #IndependenceDay2022

1/6 India's fight for freedom was a mass struggle involving many ordinary people. For the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence, we have a new book by the legendary P. Sainath. THE LAST HEROES is about ordinary, everyday people who stood up to and fought against imperialism.

My piece where I break silence and speak of my experience this past year as an Indian journalist in a land whose foundation laid by writer-journalists, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh… Let's renew our vows for a free and courageous press deccanherald.com/national/natio… @deccanherald

The 11 men who were convicted of gang-raping then 21 year old Bilkis Bano and murdering 7 members of her family are free, their life sentence remitted. If they roam around in the same village as Bilkis, will she ever be able to live a normal life? Is this ‘justice’? #BilkisBano

Late night musing: In this week of 75 years of independence, the image of gang rape and murder convicts being garlanded should haunt every right thinking Indian. Or am I just a dreamer? #JusticeForBilkisBano

"Bookstores are lonely forts spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods." -John Updike

Must see exhibition / archive in Mumbai and if you can hear Nancy speaking / even better

"Over 15 years, Frederick Noronha (FN) and team have produced some 150 books, in an extraordinary contribution to our collective culture, of truly meaningful scholarship that few of us would encounter if not for Goa,1556..." my Herald Goa column: heraldgoa.in/.../The-Rise-a…

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the very great Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association, Magsaysay Awardee, and Gandhian. A rare gem and a hero.

When Westland shut down, we heard about nothing else for weeks. SAGE India is closing down their very rich academic list which goes back around 30 years and there's not a whiff. Academics make nothing on their books and so we don't notice. But SAGE is special.

Famous Kashmiri singer Reshma ( Ab Rashid ) passed away today morning. Rashid breathed his last at SMHS hospital. Reshma was known for the typical & unique song hai hai wesai . #kashmir

Ramachandra Guha: Memories of Ian Jack, an exceptional columnist and generous human being scroll.in/article/103668… via Scroll.in

ATTN: ASPIRING YOUNG FILMMAKERS As I enter my 35th yr as a #BBCNews camerawoman, I feel an urgent need to pass on my experience to the next generation. If I was to set up a free webinar in early 2023, who would be interested in attending. Please like to vote YES & please share.

Empowered women taking control of their lives and enjoying their celebration! Wsy to go! @LHBCoach

Event | Conversation Pieces: Dayanita Singh and Rebecca M. Brown  blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesig…

Kavita Singh, go gently. In case you’ve missed it, here’s her brilliant series on miniatures, A Thousand Words scroll.in/topic/56428/a-…