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.

"When Adivasis are categorised using terms like “tribal”, “indigenous”, or “marginalised”, a fixed definition and ...boundaries are imposed upon them ... meanwhile, the rest of society, labelled as “mainstream”, enjoys a vast, open space." Jacinta Kerketta scroll.in/article/1096...

‘I write to instil self-confidence and a new consciousness in the Adivasi’: poet Jacinta Kerketta

‘Having a relationship with the community enables honest writing, whether I am offering a critique or documenting situations.’

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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!

TypeTogether@typetogether.bsky.social · 7d ago

Futura®100 Devanagari /// A reinterpretation of Paul Renner’s geometric sans serif for the 600 million users of the Devanagari script in languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. www.typetogether.com/fonts/futura... Futura® is a registered trademark of Bauer Types. Used under license. #fontsky

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

OUTLIER · Day 152

zigzackly scored 835 on Day 152. Can you beat them?

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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...

The Goa Project Sessions — Invitation via Google Calendar

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The Goa Project@thegoaproject.bsky.social · last wk.

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

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-...

A Year After A Young Muslim Man’s Lynching: Trial Yet To Start, Most Accused Out On Bail, And A Family Loses Hope

While seven of 10 accused are out on bail, the family of an aspiring policeman, 20-year-old Suleman Pathan, was forced to leave their ancestral home after his murder in a village with only four Muslim...

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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...

Field Note: Deleted, Detained, Denied—Lives Unravel In A West Bengal Village

Sanhati Banerjee

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“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...

Field Note: Deleted, Detained, Denied—Lives Unravel In A West Bengal Village

Sanhati Banerjee

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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

More coverage of the huge protests in India, which the Indian govt has responded to swiftly and brutally. www.democracynow.org/2026/10/12/c...

Protesters Say India’s Democracy Is “Rotten” as Modi Gov’t Purges Voter Rolls, Arrests Thousands

Tens of thousands of people in India have taken to the streets in recent days to protest the deletion of 130 million names from the voter rolls, a large majority of which are believed to be opposed to...

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There aren’t many Indian news sites that have a Bsky presence, and even smon those, some don’t post here regularly, but here’s a feed you can follow. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2w ago

Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*.

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi

Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.

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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...

‘Like A Caged Bird’: Voting Rights Deleted, Bengali Muslim Workers Detained Illegally For Weeks In Chhattisgarh

In West Bengal, the fallout from the SIR—which left 9.6 million registered voters, or 12% of the state population, off the electoral rolls—has moved beyond the right to vote. Deletion or adjudication ...

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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...

‘Like A Caged Bird’: Voting Rights Deleted, Bengali Muslim Workers Detained Illegally For Weeks In Chhattisgarh

In West Bengal, the fallout from the SIR—which left 9.6 million registered voters, or 12% of the state population, off the electoral rolls—has moved beyond the right to vote. Deletion or adjudication ...

article-14.com

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

A generation’s revolt against Modi

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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...