'Pandey’s impeccably crafted stories slowly, imperceptibly morph into parables... Some stories favour black humour, and one of them sometimes resembles a vastly-better-written version of The White Tiger.'

Aditya Mani Jha reviews The Keeper of Desolation!
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This Sunday's book pick is Yukio Mishima’s quietly feminist novel ‘After the Banquet’!

Despite being a right-wing ideologue who believed a great deal in orthodox Japanese traditions, Mishima also understood how marriage limits women.
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‘For an artist to become a book cover designer, it all starts with knowing your text.’

Bhavi Mehta, winner of the 2024 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize, spoke to me about her art.

This is the first time I interviewed a book cover designer!

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I had the pleasure of interviewing poet and assistant professor Parwati Tirkey about jal, jangal, jameen, education, the Sarna code bill and Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand.

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On Oct 13, I received a request from @artindiamagazine to submit an image for an upcoming issue. The prompt was “The Morning After.” My thoughts were full of what I knew would soon happen to G*z*, and I submitted this painting from 2016, in the aftermath of the bombing of Aleppo.

Read a Storizen Magazine review of Chandan Pandey's new collection of short stories, #TheKeeperOfDesolation ; tr. sayari 🇵🇸:

My this week's book is editor Diana Athill's memoir, ‘Stet’. It's extremely catty and serves up generous gossip about the brightest literary stars of the 20th century.

I loved it.

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In Amit Shah's Gandhinagar seat, 16 candidates have withdrawn from the election race.

Some of them told Scroll.in they faced pressure from Guj Police and local BJP politicians. One had a mob arrive at their home. #2024LoksabhaElections

Story:
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🗞️Friends, some news: On World Press Freedom Day, excited to share that I'm starting The Plank—a new magazine to help our readers become better citizens.

Here is our manifesto/pitch call: theplank.co/pitch-call

Send me story ideas.

Can you please share/RT? Thank you!

Terrifying story of how the Hindutva website, OpIndia attacked the Muslim principal of one of Mumbai's most prestigious schools -- leading to her being fired.
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Kolkata friends, now that better weather is forecast for next week. you can always celebrate by picking up a copy at Starmark 😈

April has been exhausting. Finally picked up a copy of my friend (and occasional editor) sayari 🇵🇸' first full-length translation from good ol' Midland's yesterday!

Excited to dive into Chandan Pandey's work, which so far feels mischievously nimble.

Starting today, every Sunday I'll recommend a book to read during the week.

The first book of the series is Rohinton Mistry's debut novel Such a Long Journey, published in 1991.

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Congratulations to my colleague Sayari Debnath ⁦sayari 🇵🇸⁩ for this translation.

Braving the scorching heat, thousands of voters turned up in Ranchi yesterday for the #UlgulanNyayMahaRally
Read my ground report.

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Delighted to spot #TheKeeperOfDesolation by Chandan Pandey, translated by sayari 🇵🇸 and #ChitralekhaZutshi ’s #SheikhAbdullah —the second book in the #IndianLives series edited and curated by Ramachandra Guha—in @thehindu’s newsletter as reading recommendations.

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‘My sorrow became a source of perverse joy for some, and summons arrived from faraway places to relate my complaints.’

Dive into #TheKeeperOfDesolation written by Chandan Pandey, masterfully translated from Hindi by sayari 🇵🇸

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