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The best piece I've read so far.
"The dry and the wet burn together," by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi --
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Not sure whether it was the best or the worst time to finish reading this book…
New Words for Worlds newsletter out. Click below to read and subscribe. 👇🏼
Words for Worlds, Issue 116 —
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
New Words for Worlds newsletter out. Click below to read and subscribe. 👇🏼
Words for Worlds, Issue 116 —
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
Please send in your mycelial pitches to gautam.strangehorizons@gmail.com.
For word-count, formats, and remuneration:
strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...
Last day of submissions. 👇🏼
Deadline approaching!
We are accepting entires for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.
A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
Please send in your mycelial pitches to gautam.strangehorizons@gmail.com.
For word-count, formats, and remuneration:
strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...
With Madhubala P, wrote a piece for @legalform.bsky.social on the ongoing citizenship battles in India, on deportations and home demolitions, and why the constitution is not enough. 👇🏼
At 3 PM today, I am moderating a conversation on speculative fiction between Samit Basu and Sung il-Kim, at Kunzum Books (GK II). Come by!
Join us for a conversation with Gautam Bhatia on “Thinking about the Indian Constitution.” Hosted by The Community Library Project with History for Peace.
Link: forms.gle/RnmAN2hsFDWv...
With Madhubala P, wrote a piece for @legalform.bsky.social on the ongoing citizenship battles in India, on deportations and home demolitions, and why the constitution is not enough. 👇🏼
'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.
Today was the 40th monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. We returned to @aptshadow.bsky.social with Alien Clay.
The room almost came to blows about whether Kiln really was a [redacted], talked about symbiosis and prison planets - and agreed we need to know what happens next!
As always, if you’re in Delhi and want to join us, drop me a line.
Today was the 40th monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. We returned to @aptshadow.bsky.social with Alien Clay.
The room almost came to blows about whether Kiln really was a [redacted], talked about symbiosis and prison planets - and agreed we need to know what happens next!
Fantastic book.
I looked for shards of the lyrical science fiction writer leaping out of the legal prose, but this is a brilliant work of expository law on its own terms. And +100 for explaining Pashukanis better than Pashukanis.
When the two worlds finally collide…
It’s the third Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
feat. Julian Barnes, Alejandro Zambra, Antigone, a new Indian climate fiction anthology & more.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
Today, 4 PM, at the Press Club.
I’ll ask the editor and DM you a review copy.
It’s the third Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
feat. Julian Barnes, Alejandro Zambra, Antigone, a new Indian climate fiction anthology & more.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
New book review:
“Radical Kinship”: Judith Butler’s Antigone’s Claim —
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/r...
Completed @essahansen.bsky.social collection.
New book review:
“Radical Kinship”: Judith Butler’s Antigone’s Claim —
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/r...
In today’s @thehindu.com, my piece on the ongoing SIRs, on the problem of mass disenfranchisement, and on the Supreme Court’s failure to engage with the constitutional questions that they raise.
New book review:
“Don’t stop looking” — on Julian Barnes’ last novel, Departure(s):
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/d...
Finally started reading this: so brilliantly written, clear and lucid, and accessible to folks like me who aren’t familiar with the grammar/vocabulary of these debates.
New book review:
“Don’t stop looking” — on Julian Barnes’ last novel, Departure(s):
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/d...