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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar is a story about Ru. Ru is a boy from nowhere. When he asks his parents where his family is from, they tell him he is descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere.

Swipe to read the praise for @indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s moving novella!

I'm so excited to share that I have a short story in this beautiful anthology out on August 18!

Preorder at the link below, and please share with any SFF fans you know 😊

The very first IF anthology of new Indian SFF is here!

Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx

No written word can do justice to the power and beauty of the stories I heard in Kashmir. But I tried. Thrilled to announce the India edition of my book, with lovely cover art by Basita Shah, is out on 7th July. Pre-orders here: amzn.in/d/7NuVhNn @westlandbooks.bsky.social

Make friends with writers. They need you more than you need them.

Fav non-fiction:
My people shall live – Leila Khaled
Halla Bol – Sudhanva Deshpande
What have you left behind – Bushra al-Maqtari. Translated by Sawad Hussain
Syeda X – Neha Dixit

Fav fiction:
Brotherless Night – VV Ganeshanathan
The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia
24 Hours with Gaspar

We made a little video that captures the vibe of the novel, just to entice those folks who want everything presold to them.

Thank you to @mridulakoshy.bsky.social for this conversation about public libraries, published today in @scroll.in

Our beautiful library in Khirki has seen too many evictions and too much displacement of members. Please support our campaign to build a permanent building.

It was one hell of an evening with all these extraordinary, articulate women, had to share a glimpse. Romila Thapar at 93, sharp and funny, and withering when it came to the controversy stirred up by Mr Dalrymple's comment about the inadequacy of professional historians.

Look who just won the Crossword prize for fiction in Mumbai today! Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari!

Delighted!

Listening to these amazing people speaking powerfully and with deep experience about people's movements and libraries as safe spaces for local communities. Hadn't realised the extent of antipathy against public libraries in the US, but do now, thanks to @edrabinski.bsky.social

I didn't want to tag you without permission or would have! Thank you for what you said, it's right there now in the middle of the cover.

I didn't know what a renga was before this beautiful, meditative dialogue between two poets arrived in my inbox. And now I can't wait to discover more, though these poems are set in Paris in grief time, so yes, there's the weight of that too.

When books were imported and remained unsold, they were pulped after a certain period of time. The covers were ripped off as proof of accounting and to prevent their going back into trade. I am guessing that instead of being pulped, they were sold as raddi and found their way to pavement sellers.

Non-Indian folks who're interested in buying a copy of THE SENTENCE, it seems that Midland Bookshop is delivering worldwide. 👇

I love it when the footnotes in a book can be read as a parallel-track narrative rerouting and making unexpected stops while never going too far from the main story.

The best thing about being here is eavesdropping on all the authors in unknown parts having fun or screaming at BS. And I don't have to spend a moment's stress on whether they'll sell or how to market. Just read!

'one of Bhatia's singular gifts, the art of writing dialogues'. As an editor, it's the thing I find many writers struggle to get right. Not Gautam, who seems to do it intuitively.

Depends when and where.

Not an allegory of a future India: lawyer and author Gautam Bhatia on his new novel The Sentence Gautam Bhatia's science-fiction novel "The Sentence" explores a futuristic city divided by class, law, and power struggles.

In today’s @thehindu.com, a conversation about The Sentence, allegory in SF, and how law and world-building come together.

Thank you to Jaideep Unudurti for the conversation:

www.thehindu.com/books/interv...

ICYMI, my attempt at writing a Ghibli-esque story for adults (of all ages) in prose and set in my hometown Calcutta, a mythic realist tale about an extended family who may be extradimensional refugees. British Fantasy and Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winner, Locus Award nominee.

If you've ever tried pulling off a ribbon at a book release, you'll know it's not that simple! #AmolPalekar #Ravish #KavereeBamzai #SandhyaGokhale #MinakshiThakur #Viewfinder #WestlandBooks

100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

What a high, to find nilanjanaroy.bsky.social and rahulabhatia.bsky.social on this year-end list (And that friends should share space in this way.) #BlackRiver #TheIdentityProject
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

THE SENTENCE is out in the world today.

Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:

www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...

Aha! Found one of our favourites here~Rahul Bhatia's masterful inquiry into the state of Indian democracy, published by Context in India as The Identity Project.
“This book should be heavy, but it's so readable, so swiftly sketched that it's a page-turner." Yes. And brilliant, insightful, elegant.

Woke up with a deep sense of satisfaction because yes, we've finally got the right cover on this book which I know people are going to take extreme positions on. Love, hate, but no ignore!

Bahrisons Delhi has very helpfully put THE SENTENCE face-up for you to see - and get - when you enter the bookshop. 😬