The Doctor (Open for Commissions)

Everything about this is so incredibly horrifying. They are just picking up Bengali speakers with Muslim names and literally throwing them across the border into Bangladesh. I actually mean “literally”.

Out this month:

"Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF" --

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Scroll.in has an excerpt from my Locus-nominated, British Fantasy Award & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, which is now out in South Asia as a lovely new paperback (with new cover art by Samya Arif) from @westlandbooks.bsky.social. You can read it here:

#DrawingAugust #DrawingAugust2025

Coffee and sketching on the riverbank.

Heard kingfishers but didn't actually see one. Heron gracefully glided by just as I was finishing.

India Street Lettering: A Book A journey through typographic craft and culture

OK we're planning to end Late Pledges on the India Street Lettering campaign tonight. One day left to reserve your book through Kickstarter!

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Or pre-order on our site (this isn't going anywhere):

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Jfc who is smoking up on a Monday morning in the Central Line

বাংলা এখন বাংলাদেশী ভাষা নাকি🙂
যেই বাংলা বলবে সেই বাংলাদেশী আর বাংলাদেশ মানেই তো মুসলিম দেশ

Out at a nature walk, heard dozens of bird, seen only a handful... But came across 100s of crabs!

😅😅😅

YouTube video by Firstpost Why Trump Should Never Win the Nobel Peace Prize | Vantage With Palki Sharma

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Palki sharma the goddess delivering as always. A roast for the ages.

She has built her brand on this. #trump

I go to book events so my reading landscape isn’t shrunk by algorithms or my own experiential world view. This is from today’s book swap. The book has been buzzy for over a year but it never called to me. Today it was all that was left in the stack on my turn. Maybe it’ll be one of the adventures.

PROOFREADERS OF THE WORLD: UNTIE!

For biryani:
Food Text, Bakery Junction, Trivandrum
Bombay Restaurant, Silk Street, Calicut

For fish meal (ha!):
Hotel Mubarak, Chalai Market, Trivandrum
Amma Mess, Puthiyara, Calicut
Hotel Lisy, Karanthur, Calicut

And the best unnakai: Grand Upahaar, Mananchira, Calicut

Guten Appetit!

Reservation, 3rd language Hindi: Maharashtra govt rolls back 7 key decisions in six months Six of these decisions were rolled back following a backlash from stakeholders, including the parents of students.

Abki Baar
U-Turn Sarkar!!

Maharashtra govt rolls back 7 key decisions in 6 months

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Should We Applaud or Criticise the “Deal of the Decade”? Reliance’s 5,286-Acre Navi Mumbai Purchase at ₹97.11/sq.ft. (A$1.72)

Shouldn’t we be questioning how land worth as much as ₹1.84 lakh crore (A$3.26 trillion) changed hands at less than 0.02% of its market value?

#Adani #Ambani

A country which toppled other governments is now occupied with toppling itself.

Reliance foundation.

Congratulations Debbie :)

Two sibling great horned owl fledglings sitting side by side on a small broken tree branch. They are both facing the camera and looking off slightly to the left.

More great horned owl family! The two fledgling siblings 🦉 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 🧵
#birds #owls

Maybe if it wasn't wearing a mask I could tell you which bee-eater it was 🤣

Large brown wolf spider in my hand

me and this oaf just mutually startled each other

‘Su From So’: How an unheralded Kannada film broke marketing norms to set box office records The Raj B Shetty-produced ‘Su From So’, a surprise hit of 2025, breaks box office records with minimal promotion, emphasising quality content over excessive marketing

“Three days ago, Su From So was an unheralded film. Today, it has shaken the Kannada film industry, reiterating the importance of quality content and prompting filmmakers to reassess their promotional strategies.” 📽️ #DesiWatch

Thank you so much :)

cover for On Demon Wrangling and Interpersonal Relationships Between Weary Immortals by Rebecca Crunden; purple background with a cat and flowers.

Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others.

🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/on-demon-wra...

I'm targeting 5 magazines to send a story out to before the month is over.

I think 2 of them are almost done, and I like how they are looking. Needs like a day each to lock everything.

I have enough thoughts and a framework for the other two, so those should get done soon as well.

#IAmWriting

The thing about using all the feeds a lot more than following feed is that you don't realise how often people you interact heavily aren't mutuals 😅

a jungle owlet photographed from far, it is perched on a branch, and there are lots of branches of varying thickness and leafs all around.

a small green coloured crab spider that decided to hitch a ride on my camera bag inside the jungle. it has two of its front leg very long and in a V shape (as if offering a hug)

a sub-adult tiger that has plonked itself in a small puddle of mud to keep itself cool, and looking at jeep right in front. on left top you see another sub-adult walking further ahead towards the other jeeps. the left top shows a line of jeep standing next to each other.

a monitor lizard sitting in the grass early morning.

Some (not so) recent photographs for #StunDay (all photographed in Tadoba National Park, India)

🪶 🦊 🦎 🌿🖌️ #虫
#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin

a bird of prey with yellow eyes and mostly dark brown to black feathers, perched on a branch.

Since the #Birds feed loves #Raptors. Crested Serpent Eagle perched on a branch, and making a fist with one of its foot!

#Photography #Stunday #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin

Is this the tech version of 'how do you speak such good english?' I kept listening to growing up...

It's been a while since I heard anyone say it to me. 😅

a crocodile mostly submerged in the lake water, there is a large fish in its moth. the left top shows the tree under which the crocodile spends most of its time.

A crocodile having a fish for its breakfast, floating in its favourite place.

🌿🖌️ 🐊
#Photography #Nature #Wildlife

A small black spider with white stripes and dots.

Went for a short walk to look at birds and maybe spot a few spiders.

Came across this dapper looking gentlespood (Adanson's House Jumper)

#Photography #nature #backyardWildlife #invertebrates