Peter G

If you’ve just got here, you might find this thread useful. Oh, and if we’re mutuals from elsewhere, you might find others you know via this Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/6RLqFKd (the thread explains what an SP is, if you haven’t come across the term yet).

Cleansing your timeline with this feisty little creature who, after stalking various people’s shoes and scraps of paper, joined us for a beverage at the take-away counter of a south Bombay eatery.

Amidst all this <gestures vaguely but wildly> excellent news from Brazil and Serbia.

This is Angel, adopted as a kitten by our local street-side bookstall.

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

For Indian readers: preorders are open for The Pictures of Darpan Ray! Here's the publisher's post: Set in a Bollywood transitioning between the multiplex and AI eras, this is a layered, dark, and wickedly funny story about friendship, ambition, and the monstrous machinery of modern stardom.

Made a thing I’m pretty proud of!

Not my best score, but my first time finding a ‘pioneer word.’ > 2 words nobody else has found yet 7 found by under 1% of players A Pioneer word: nobody had ever found it before playoutlier.com/s/TGW62Y

10 years since this book took my heart into the world. Grateful. 🌺 www.instagram.com/p/DerZJWOAQe...

Jashn-e-moji 🧨🥳🎉🍾

Jashn-e-commerce.

Join us? Sign up here: calendar.app.google/pcQknoeYmvCo...

In bookstores in India and South Asia now: "The Land of Monsoons and Martyrs: A New History of Bangladesh," revised and updated (significantly) my 2014 book on Bangladesh, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent.

This Sunday, we discuss ergonomics and its role in workplace wellness. More about our presenter here: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/e...

Our 37th meet is in a Karave park. We will share poems about dissent. For the map pin and other details, please mail poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail.

Wilting Hopes, Long Detours: A year after #SulemanPathan‘s lynching by his childhood friends, his family avoids entering their ancestral village and finds their hope for justice wilting, reports Kunal Purohit article-14.com/post/a-year-...

Ruby Bibi rolls bidis for Rs 50-200 a 12-hr shift. West Bengal’s SIR deleted her name, so she lost the welfare payment that bought her children meat on Sundays. For her & many Bengali Muslims, a deleted name now costs more than a vote, reports Sanhati Banerjee article14.substack.com/p/field-note...

“You saw the deletions of Muslims; now we are being detained.” Rahul Khan, a Bengali migrant worker to Chhattisgarh, narrates the ordeal he & 22 other Muslims endured in that state after the SIR deleted their names. Sanhati Banerjee reports article14.substack.com/p/field-note...

AISA staged a flash protest at Mandi House in Delhi. Student activist Neha Bora has been detained by the Delhi Police. Report by Ayush Tiwari

“We will not leave Delhi until Gyanesh Kumar resigns,” says a supporter of the political campaign Cockroach Janta Party, adding that their only motive is to save democracy. Report by Anant Gupta & Raghav Kakkar #CECProtest

Scenes from Connaught Place, Delhi, as Hindutva protesters raise slogans during the demonstration. 📷 Raghav Kakkar & Anant Gupta

In 2019, Narendra Modi urged first-time voters to dedicate their votes to the soldiers killed in the Balakot airstrike. The Election Commission took no action. Ayush Tiwari & Supriya Sharma discuss how the poll body's questionable record predates Gyanesh Kumar. WATCH: youtu.be/_GzTTSu5hqk?...

“You are playing with people's lives” Calcutta HC, asking how #Chhattisgarh police could determine nationality of #Muslims they detained, without being authorised to & despite appeals against #SIR deletions pending before a tribunal. Sanhati Banerjee reports article-14.com/post/-like-a...

West Bengal’s SIR struck 9.6 million voters, 12% of the state, off the rolls. The fallout now goes beyond vote: a deleted name can mean Bengali Muslims, anywhere in India, face detention on suspicion of being “illegal Bangladeshis.” Sanhati Banerjee has 4 such stories article-14.com/post/-like-a...

The Opposition on Wednesday condemned the arrest of #CockroachJantaParty leaders #AshutoshRanka, #SauravDas and Ajinkya Shinde. Jantar Mantar belongs to the people of India and “we will reclaim it”, #RahulGandhi said on social media. scroll.in/latest/10963... #CECprotest

Is the Modi wave beginning to fade? youtu.be/JUSdICy_2l8 Thousands of young protesters took to the streets of Delhi to demand the chief election commissioner’s resignation. What is driving a generation to turn against the Modi government? Ground Report by Priyali Dhingra and Raghav Kakkar

Assistant Commissioner of Police Vivek Bhagat, who had been accused by a journalist of sexual harassment has alleged that she had made casteist remarks about him, reported PTI on Wednesday. scroll.in/latest/10964...

In a sign of a growing distance between the bench and a section of the bar, neither Anna Oomen nor other detained lawyers have hope of the court taking any action against the police. scroll.in/article/1096... "Justice is a very far-fetched term for the court now,” said Oommen✍️Rokibuz Zaman

The urinals at Royal Opera House leave me with performance anxiety.

I feel this way about all golf courses. And doubly so for the ones in cities. Bombay has two within city limits. And at least one more that I know of in the MMR. I would nationalise all of them — and the racecourse — and turn them into food forests and parks with little learning centres in them.

Waiting for Burger Queen.

Philanthropy and nonprofits in our time. Vu Le on point.

With trains cancelled, travel blocked, the national capital flooded with an unprecedented number of security forces, and mass detentions of young citizens across the country, how is this not a state of Emergency in everything but name?

For anyone who might be interested—this is a cleaned-up version of the keynote speech I gave last week at the Middle Ground Nepal Literature Festival in Berlin. manjushree.substack.com/p/to-imagine...

dearest friendos, if anyone happens to be in the coimbatore area tomorrow evening around 6, come hang out with me and vinayak varma at kaadambari! we will be talking about weird things! You can buy a saree! Or some pillows! come see us!

NEW: Our team at @americanoversight.org obtained a copy of a 2024 US Army report that tested the electric shock gloves recently purchased by ICE. "After experiencing the effects of the GLOVE...participants stated just seeing the GLOVE was enough to make them want to comply," the report noted.

More Bengaluru things happening this week! Readings from HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA RSVP: forms.gle/VQkP53QggjRw...

Because, maths?

Live in Bengaluru Sunday October 11 at 6 PM! Kuzhali Manickavel in conversation with Shalini Srinivasan Launching her first novel! RVSP at the link below! champaca.in/blogs/events...

HBD, MKG.