Tree hugger; urban gardener; bird&insect watcher; city walker; lover of books|| Research - gender, informal labour, migration, urban health, qualitative methods
Ahmedabad and Bengaluru
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Apoorva (@BilingualWindow) and I are excited to share citiesinfiction.com/ -a database that locates the literary landscape of India and South Asia. This website is for those who are interested in using fiction to teach and learn about the urban - cities, towns, and beyond.
The very amazing @BilingualWindow is doing a workshop....! Join her at Champaca
This is tommorow!
We are super excited about this event... Come join us on 13th September!!
#citiesinfiction
This list has some wonderful books, but I’m always wary of book lists. Reading is so personal. Fiction lovers, do check out citiesinfiction.com. It’s a lovely way to also discover lesser known books and build your own reading list from other readers’ recommendations.
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UNLIKELY ARCHIVES: Reading Space through Texts, Documents & Images
Students from non-metropolitan institutes and marginalised backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.
Apply before 17 Aug '26 11:00 PM IST
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It's amazing when you find the right books at the right time!
Whistler by Ann Patchett is wonderful. Love her other books too, especially The Dutch House, but this one is very special!!
New on #CitiesinFiction: a conversation with Alina Gufran on the relationship between the personal and the political, the psychology of place, home and memory, friendships, books, and films with a strong sense of place.
Read the interview: citiesinfiction.com/alinaguf…
In a time when the world feels grotesquely fast and so full of intense drama, this book is like a soothing balm..Don't miss it!! Perfect book to gift someone.
I absolutely love this book! Highly recommend.
If you enjoy wise, reflective novels about everyday life, or if you’ve hit a reading block, Virginia Evans' The Correspondent is the book for you. Here’s why
This month's Yours Literary, by @yasheesingh
indianexpress.com/article/bo…
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Starting today. Forty-five small ways to look at the city you already know. The footpath you walk every day. The ward office you've never been to. The pavement you've stopped noticing. You've walked these streets a hundred times. This time, you'll see them. If you're looking to learn deeply, visit iihs.ac.in.
#SeeYourCity #IIHSUniversity #UrbanIndia #ExpressYourInterest
Curious what fiction is set in your city? Explore the map: citiesinfiction.com/maps. You can also contribute to help us expand the database.
(Map credit: mappls.com — thanks @mappls, @MapmyIndia & @_rohanverma)
Following a wonderful event in Mumbai, here's an interview with @janeborges9. She talks to us about storytelling, the history of Cavel (Mumbai), memory and imagination, her work of non-fiction; and her favourite city writers, among other things.
citiesinfiction.com/janeborg…
Such terrible news. We have lost an incredible scholar.
Devastated by the passing of prof
@raulpacheco true champion of demystifying academic research & writing. As a waste scholar, too, he was inspiring. I really recommend his blog to PhD students🌹
raulpacheco.org/
We’re looking for a Sr Associate/Manager to join our Care Portfolio team (School of Human Development, IIHS)
If you are interested in themes such as care, social reproduction, social protection, and gender, this could be a great opportunity.
Apply here: share.google/SWAtyPl3B60Fe1U…
There are many ways to read a city. Here’s a postcard mapping Mumbai through women’s writing (fiction) — stories that take us across trains, apartments, overbridges, memory, intimacy, labour, migration, ambition, and everyday life. 1.
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This post is for younger Bengaluru residents, and for book lovers everywhere. Before Blossom and Bookworm, the city’s Church Street housed Premier Bookshop, run by the legendary T. S. Shanbhag. Here is a lovely interview with the great bookseller:
tbr-olderissues.com/2014/06/…
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I always tell my students, you can be certain that Toni Morrison herself carefully chose every word she ever wrote. That's what makes close reading her work so enjoyable and so fruitful. Today, we launch PASSAGES, a podcast about reading Morrison together. sites.prh.com/passages
