Siddhartha Deb

When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken in this short story by Siddhartha Deb (@siddharthadeb.bsky.social).

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New fiction that sadly seems relevant as India concocts a war with Pakistan.

“Every face, to us, became a window into a life unseen, whose story remained untold.”

Amit R. Baishya interviews filmmaker Prateek Vats about his debut feature, Eeb Allay Ooo!, part of an emergent oeuvre of multispecies cinema from India.

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“The pipal stood beside the black, burning road like a protective god.”

The road to Delhi is hot with a heat that is no respecter of persons in this short story by Vandana Singh.

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“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”

"Banana republic" has always been a projection.

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb “What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”

“Atmo-terrorism” captures how elemental substances like air are changed by lethal elements like gas in the epoch of the Anthropocene.

@amitbaishya.bsky.social discusses how the new novel by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social captures a quotidian index of slow violence.

On Jacobin radio on the links between the neoliberal order and the rise of the Hindu right.

We talk about why the South Asian novel can also be about Palestine, the Third World, BLM, and the oppressive architecture of oppressive nations.

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb “What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”

New at PB, @amitbaishya.bsky.social interviews @siddharthadeb.bsky.social about his third novel “The Light at the End of the World” (Soho Press), which is both metaphorically and literally weird: “Nature” is both ruined and available for reading as ruins.

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb - Public Books “Each novel is always a new project, somewhat experimental, building on earlier obsessions but departing from them formally.”

My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.

In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."

Long Reads: The Rise and Rule of India’s Hindu Right w/ Siddhartha Deb Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 03/21/2025 · 1h 11m

The Rise and Rule of India’s Hindu Right: an interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups. Part of Trump’s sweeping attack on the First Amendment.

Also, Mahmoud Khalil is a Green Card holder and his wife is 8 months pregnant.
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Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.

Berlin is a city of scenes, one of which has found itself under immense pressure as of late: Arab artists and intellectuals face backlash for voicing an opinion on Palestine or even minding their own business.

At the moment, at least!

This was such an amazing piece.

"This is probably something you shouldn’t say out loud. But my thinking has become more that this is actually war with the state rather than anything else. Their tactics, the militarization used against students, the riot gear — yeah, this is war." hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...

"There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line." Brilliant Mark Greif assessment of the assault on the bureaucracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Trump's targets He promised revenge. Here’s who’s first on his list—and how they’re fighting back.

Trump's mantra: *They* ruined America; *we* have to take it back. The “theys”, of course, are immigrants, whistleblowers, trans people, journalists, Democrats, civil servants. Hear how they are fighting back, in their own words, in our new cover package www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Somewhere and Everywhere Reading Literature in Translation

“What are writers and readers doing, and what should they be doing, to challenge or transcend Anglocentric literary culture?”

Read our Issue Fourteen Dispatches, feat. @careybaraka.bsky.social, @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, @michaelbarron.bsky.social, and more:
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@michaelbarron.bsky.social, @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, @ummleora.bsky.social, @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social, @miriyam.bsky.social, @jakeindursky.bsky.social @skestenbaum.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @infinitejaz.bsky.social