My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery #Father'sDay

Gemini says its Indian pokeweed. Apparently pahadis cook parts of it tho some other parts are toxic

Haan desi kikar 🙂

Coucal hiding in kikar #Gurgaon

This book is so full of fantastic factoids i went into a happy geeky coma!

“I find myself drawn to contradictions” - @ruthvikarao, author of All Our Evenings, talks to @writerly_life about her novel, a tale of friendship and betrayal set in Hyderabad hindustantimes.com/s/1k3QXAm

On November 12, 2023, a tunnel under construction at Silkyara in Uttarakhand collapsed, trapping 41 labourers. Journalist @saurabhsherry vividly recounts the story of the rescue operation in his first book, Operation Silkyara. @mayankparichha reviews. hindustantimes.com/s/1k2g6ZU

Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the original Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, is an unsettling prose poem. Review by @chintanwriting hindustantimes.com/s/1k3PUyO

"Earlier, Indians measured time by the 24 minute 'ghati' and used water clocks. Colonialism brought the 60 minute hour and mechanical clock towers" - Debashis Das, author, Clock Towers of India, on the many fantastic clock towers across the country. Link in thread @niyogibooks #podcast

Read the @htTweets Books page in the epaper: epaper.hindustantimes.com/ed…

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books &Authors podcast with Debasish Das, author, Clock Towers of India, and to a review of @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted Things We Never Say by @LizStrout @niyogibooks

The lead pic marks 75 years since China's invasion of Tibet. It shows Chinese troops assembling for the invasion in 1950. The small Tibetan army was decimated. The government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which was ratified by the 14th Dalai Lama on Oct 24 1951.

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by @livetowrite , Justin McCarthy, and Aili Seghetti @WestlandBooks @BloomsburyIndia @juggernautbooks

On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, and Operation Silkyara: The Untold Story of One of India's Greatest Rescue Missions by @saurabhsherry + an interview with @ruthvikarao, author, All Our Evenings @juggernautbooks @PenguinIndia

We dint start the fire. It's been burning since the world's been turning... lol

I work fr three 😂😂😂

Alright I guess. Getting along lol

Hahaha how are you Kurt??

Haha same pinch. Got mine last year. Ws alarmed nd asked dentist. Apparently its rare but happens nd doesnt mean anything

The beetles are v pretty but toxic. Suddenly appear here when it gets cooler along with silvebills and screeching treepies