Too true!

darkness all morning
in this shifting sea of mist
traces of crowflight

the year’s last sunlight
drawn away under the bridge
never meant to go

Religion and morality are 2 separate concepts and there's nothing moral about religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

I am so thrilled to find you here after you disappeared from X

Yellow packaging with the text: Attention: Asking usage to specify the charger proceeds to refresh The attention defends the tide, strictlying forbid the short circuit Can’t close to the fire source the in order to prevent occurrence Bang MADE IN CHINA

Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be...
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‘When I taught a translation workshop this summer…I banned both terms. I find them disturbingly sexual—the implication is that a faithful translator does sleep around, and a translator who takes liberties is something like a rapist.’
The ever entertaining #DaisyRockwell
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Geetanjali Shree Interview: Language as Protest in ‘Our City That Year International Booker winner on how language becomes an act of resistance and identity in her latest novel, translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Geetanjali Shree speaks to me on the cumulative effect of small violences and the liberal confusion as a factor in the process of communalization of our cities.

frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...

INTERVIEW | We Now Have Means to Actively Build a Community and Train and Help Emerging Translators: Daisy Rockwell Through her translations of Hindi/Urdu novels, the translator has brought out the best of post-Independence writers in English.

@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...

“किसी शहर से परिचित होने का शायद सबसे आसान तरीक़ा यह है कि यह जानने की कोशिश की जाए कि उसमें रहने वाले लोग काम किस तरह करते हैं, प्यार और मुहब्बत किस तरह करते हैं और मरते किस तरह हैं।”
–अल्बेयर कामू

Man with his trophy, Mumbai .

Revisiting 1990's Rath Yatra Through Fiction

Good to see this review:
Revisiting the 1990 Rath Yatra Through Fiction:

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Sunny Dogs❤️

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Aamir Aziz:

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Reading Mira Sethi:

‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’

Election morning , Colaba.