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Bangalore
Joined August 2009
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Our #wednesday fiction recommendation is Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari's award-winning debut, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half. This unputdownable book is now in paperback! Get your copy today.
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In celebration of this milestone, I have taken the liberty of hiding an Easter Egg in the article. If you find it, please DM me. @WestlandBooks is giving away signed copies of my latest book, "Ex Machina: A Decade of Tech Policy", to the first 5 people who figure it out.
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From the author of the critically acclaimed author of Biopeculiar and One Arm Shorter Than the Other, comes a new novel about Artificial Intelligence, set in the wilds of a futuristic Noida. @gigiganguly’s Endless Dream is now available at all major bookstores and online.
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Big congratulations to @Plebeian42 for winning the First Book Non fiction Award for Wild Wild East at @litlivefest 🎉🎉
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The bestselling award-winning debut by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half is now out in paperback! 🥳🥳 Get your copy from your favourite bookstore or online.
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We are celebrating because many of our books are on the @litlivefest longlist. Congratulations to all our authors! @BelaNegi @p_semolina @Sumana_Ramanan @Plebeian42 @tmkrishna @Tejaswini_Apte
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Despite yesterday’s punishing thunderstorms it was a full house at the discussion on AI Law and Policy at our offices celebrating the launch of my book Ex Machina: Essays on a Decade of Tech Policy.
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Scenes from the Bangalore launch of @kavita_krishnan's De-democratisation at @bicblr. If you missed this, head over to Beku books tomorrow evening for her other event!
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Replying to @CMofKarnataka
@CMofKarnataka @osd_cmkarnataka @ucpshetty @BJP4Karnataka @CS_of_Karnataka We demand SIT probe as we know animals r good business. Veterinary Colleges are cruelty & corruption hubs. We need SIT probe for Primecare case. We want govt. To dig deeper. #ArrestAsifManjunath now. – at Bengaluru, India
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🚨 PRIMECARE CASE | Bengaluru East City Corporation 📌 Latest Case Update A total of 12 dogs and 1 cat have been found during the ongoing investigation. Sadly, one dog has passed away. 🔹 The premises had been sealed earlier, but the seal was found broken. With the assistance of the police, the premises have been sealed again today. 🔹 Investigation and witness statement collection are currently in progress. 🔹 The FIR and mahazar have been completed, and the post-mortem of one dog has also been conducted. 🐾 Important Public Appeal The case is currently in the evidence-collection phase. There is no requirement for additional volunteers at this stage. Citizens who have lost their animals or experienced alleged malpractice are requested to come forward and submit an affidavit to the concerned group. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: No funds are being raised for this case. Please do not donate money to anyone claiming to collect funds for the case unless the concerned group specifically requests it. 🙏 Thank you to everyone for the support and cooperation extended so far. Investigation continues.
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Re-reading Rollo Romig's I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025. Without comment, from a July 2025 interview: "AM: Your book has different publishers inside and outside India—did you face any challenges with Indian publishers? RR: That was definitely a challenge. It was very hard to find an Indian publisher willing to take on the book. Penguin, for instance—I published the book with Penguin in the US, but Penguin India refused to publish it. I had fully expected Penguin India to be my publisher, and it was a challenge to find someone else. I can’t just assume that was due to concerns about the political content—maybe they didn’t like the book. Westland has been incredible. They continue to be the bravest major Indian publisher. I’m really impressed by their nerve, their smarts, and their savvy." thepolisproject.com/read/rol…
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Kavita Krishnan's De-Democratisation : A Global Story is the book you should be reading to understand global politics currently. Now in bookstores and online.
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Westland: hmm, are we promoting this book enough? Meanwhile, Josy Joseph:
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We asked @kavita_krishnan to tell us what makes De-democratisation: A Global Story an important read to understand global and local politics. An urgent book for our times. Get it at your favourite bookstore and online.
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Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer. The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices
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#ALARMING🚨 Mr. Manan Mishra, HANDS OFF our students! How dare you pass such a grossly illegal order? Reveal your law degree to the world now because a lawyer can’t get the law this wrong! Students of NALSAR have displayed democratic dissent against a person they in their own wisdom thought was unfit to give them their hard-earned degrees. Who are you to intervene? Your accountability needs to be talked about too. Tell us why as the statutory regulator (BCI) responsible for supervising State Bar Councils you permitted elected bodies to continue BEYOND their terms until the Supreme Court intervened? Who were these people that were favoured as a result of this? Tell us now. And why and how have you been holding the post of Chairman since 2012 to now till 2030? Do tell us about your track record. Tell us why did you illegally intervene in the 2026 Chhattisgarh State Bar Council, as stated by the High Court there? Law students and advocates in Delhi and across the country will rise up in protest against you and in support of the students of NALSAR if you don’t WITHDRAW this disgusting notification IMMEDIATELY and apologise for your conduct. Your conduct and tenure as the BCI Chairman (while being BJP RS MP) needs to be accounted for. @Cockroachisback
#BREAKING BCI Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra says that no student who graduated from NALSAR University of Law will be enrolled until further orders from Bar Council of India. BCI Chairman seeks report from NALSAR on students who mobilised a campaign to not invite CJI Surya Kant for convocation.
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It’s today! The launch of my book, Good News, Bad News at Bangalore International Centre at 6.30pm with a wonderful panel. I am a bundle of nerves and excitement. Please wish good luck to me and my little book. If you can make it there - it would be wonderful to see you! 🌺
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Minakshi Thakur's Grief Burns Like Fever is a novel of love and longing set in a time that brought out the best, and the worst, in humanity. Releasing in bookstores across India on 5 August. Preorder your copy on amzn.in/d/0h1HoCWU @minthakur
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