I give my 2 cents on anything and everything. A Chevening fellow and Independent Journalist, a blogger and visiting faculty, media studies
Kolkata
Joined February 2013
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Time Shelter - Usawa share.google/IJMo8SZHkusQMBl…
#Usawa's #Matchbox issue of September 2026 has carried my review of a genre bending, mind-blowing fiction on Dementia by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov. I have reviewed it in its English translation
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This thread is so very important. For authors, editors, and publishers who care.
WE OPPOSE THE REPEAL OF ISI ACT WITHOUT DISCUSSION WITH ISI c.org/TbgSfVLzpS
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I write on the recent movement and how students stood shoulder to shoulder in the face of repression
The resignation is just the start.. solving the education crisis requires broad solidarity and collective struggle. The students of this country have learnt this in the movement
Check out this video where a question is being asked, is it for students to decide what kind of accountability should be asked of ministers responsible for exam paper leaks. Students should not ask for resignation of education minister. WHY??? share.google/atSjuRfu1RMoapq…
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Reading these verses when Kabir Deb first sent me his translation of Adnan Kafeel Darwesh 's Thithurte Lamp Post I felt a fire being lit in my gut. I read them overnight and we signed the book up the next day. As it happened, we announced the book on the day of the Sansad Chalo March when a similar fire was burning in many of our hearts. Delighted and proud that we will be publishing this translation at #YodaPress
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This is going to hit women's participation and presence in workspaces in the city hard. #Shame
Women passengers will not be able to avail free bus service in Delhi from August 1, as the government has made the 'Pink Saheli’ smart card mandatory for such travel, officials said on Friday (July 10, 2026).
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Unboxing copies of a new book is always sublime. Copies should be available super soon both online and offline of this vital intervention for our times by the brilliant thinker, teacher and human @hashiyaarai, whom I am proud to call my author and dear friend.
Co-published by #YodaPress and our friends at @SimonSchusterIN
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Our next graphic book, Safaa and her Tent by Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah, is coming soon.
In the meanwhile, we are delighted to announce that we have signed the South Asian edition of Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila's They Killed Habibi, a devastating account of Aila's life in Gaza over the past two years.
#YodaPress
#indiepublishing
#PalestineWillBeFree
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Readers will find poems by @Ashwanitiss , excerpts from works by @utopianfemme , Kareena Mehta, and Kalashree Sengupta, a column by @nuts2406, reviews by @AnasuyaBasu and @suchiswriting , and an interview with historian @ARV_Chalapathy on coffee, caste, and colonial Tamil Nadu.
Usawa Literary Review carries my review of Madhvi Parekh's exhibition curated by DAG at Alipore Museum, Kolkata. The artist who held her first solo in Kolkata returns to the city with her body of work over 60 years.
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Hot on our ASAP Corner:
An excerpt from Howard McKenzie-Murray's 2024 Hungerford Award-shortlisted novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦 (Fremantle Press, 2026)
thehooghlyreview.com/excerpt…
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"Through Tea, Forest and Mist: Exploring the Dooars" by Anasuya Basu
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My review of Jerry Pinto's A Good Life: The Power of Palliative Care published by Juggernaut in Usawa Literary Review's winter issue. #usawa #juggernaut
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For the longest time Kolkata has turned away from the Hooghly flowing through its east bank, while cities elsewhere have turned towards its rivers with citizens turning to it for their leisure, worship, and other activities. My piece on the riverfront
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A drive through MP forests in vintage and new wheels linkedin.com/posts/anasuya-b…
Revivalsts do their bit to conserve the languages of Birhor and Asura communities. My piece in otlook Traveller
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My piece in Outlook Traveller on how abodes of yesteryear film stars and film personalities in Bengal are being photographed and documented, how film trivia like lobby cards, posters, photographs are being archived acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…
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Meet the HWR Khozem Merchant Non-Fiction Fellows of 2025:
🖋 @AnasuyaBasu
🖋 Anju Narayanan
🖋 @jeffjosephpaul
🖋 @rjadHinduBL
🖋 @shirinmehrotra
