
Ipsita Chakravarty
@p_semolina
Wrote 'Dapaan: Tales From Kashmir's Conflict' (hurstpublishers.com/book/dapa)
Formerly at @scroll_in, @IndianExpress, @ttindia, @timesofindia
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"Where will we evacuate to? Nowhere is safe... we spend our whole lives building our properties. You want us to leave and run. It can’t happen." Voices of despair in Jammu. Rayan Naqash reports scroll.in/article/108222…

#BREAKING Three Indians among a group of 78 people “pushed” across a river into Bangladesh on May 8, according to a local police report accessed by Rokibuz Zaman scroll.in/latest/1082382…



The line British drew on the map in 1947 continues to rip through lives An 80-year-old man was asked to leave India after the Pahalgam attack. Paralysed and unable to speak, he died on the way to the Attari crossing. Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر's heart-wrenching story scroll.in/article/108272…








Our book "Our Rice Tastes of Spring" Drawing from The Wire stories Words, research by me, Jharkhandi life-like illustrations by Sandhya Visvanathan Spitting Image. by Westland Books "बासंती स्वाद के हमारे चावल" -- हमारी छोटी सी किताब, हमारे बीजों, खाने पर midlandbookshop.com/en/product/our…


#Kolkata We are releasing Ipsita Chakravarty’s evocative book Dapaan. She will be in conversation with Shreevatsa Nevatia at Calcutta’s beloved bookstore Seagull Books سیگل. Come by for some chai and a compelling conversation. Context





Moving beyond the news cycle of violence and trauma, Dapaan takes you to a Kashmir of literature, of ghost stories, of wedding songs and of generational grief and hope of the Valley witnessed through all these. Ipsita Chakravarty's book is one for the ages. Now in bookstores.