@crossandink1776.bsky.social"The door is open. That feels like permission until I remember permission usually involves someone actually giving it."
The Broken Banner
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@crossandink1776.bsky.social"Everything about him should make recognition easy, yet somebody has gone to trouble to make recognition difficult."
The Broken Banner
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@scroll.in"I looked at the two recipients of Phooli-jân’s favour with interest – for that the bunches of red rhododendron they both wore were her gift I did not doubt."
An excerpt by Flora Annie Steel
Speaking Tiger
@crossandink1776.bsky.social"You cannot add numbers because you like them."
Among the Crows
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@crossandink1776.bsky.social"I watched four good skips and one stone dying with dignity."
Among the Crows
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@crossandink1776.bsky.social"If he asked me to hide him, I could refuse. Instead he simply waits while I make the choice myself."
The Broken Banner
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@crossandink1776.bsky.social“I enjoy being alive,” Martin says. “It encourages caution.”
The Broken Banner
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@scroll.in"Although the historical details in Saradindu’s novel are drawn straight out of Sarat Chandra Das’s text, the characterisation is nonetheless an anachronistic projection of a modern 20th-century Bengali regionalist identity."
#bookexcerpt by Parjanya Sen.
@crossandink1776.bsky.social"People who insist that nothing is wrong have begun keeping bags close to their doors."
From my novel, Among the Crows.
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@scroll.in"India’s pattern of electricity generation and energy use imply that policies to achieve net zero have to have two main foci. The first is greatly increasing the role of cleaner sources of electricity generation"
A #bookexcerpt by Nirvikar Singh
Simon & Schuster
@scroll.in"Trevor took me to his father, and his father took me to Mandela. Mandela was very pleased that a journalist from India had come on the very first day to interview him."
An excerpt by Saeed Naqvi.
Speaking Tiger Books
@scroll.in"Women’s conscious planning to undergo the sterilisation procedure during the cold season to avoid the consequences of the summer heat shows how well the operation is incorporated into the vernacular understandings of the body"
A #bookexcerpt by Eva Fiks.
Yoda Press
@scroll.in"The pistol not only played a pivotal role in Bhagat Singh’s Central Assembly bombing Case, but also pointed the British police in the direction of Bhagat Singh when it came to Saunders’s assassination."
A #bookexcerpt by Jupinderjit Singh.
@reneescatts.bsky.socialExcerpt from Shadow Stalker
There was a loud roar.
“Demon! Run!” the other replied.
“What’s a demon?” Deakan whispered in my ear.
I shrugged, then realised he couldn’t see me in the dark. “I don’t know...”
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@scroll.in"And then we must also accept something harder to say out loud, especially for surgeons, especially for those who are expected to be decisive, confident, almost invulnerable: There are some things beyond us."
#Bookexcerpt by P Jagannath & Pankaj Mishra.
Juggernaut Books
@kevinklehr.bsky.social🚢Ocean Voyage
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🥲Learning to love oneself
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Never fall in love on Wednesday.
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@scroll.in#BookExcerpt |"By insisting on non-violence, and hastening slowly, Gandhi prepared Indians for using their freedom with greater responsibility when it eventually came."
An excerpt from ‘Arguments with Gandhi’ by Ramachandra Guha
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@scroll.in"I wonder if perhaps my mother’s love was a different kind of love because having children was something always expected of her by the world around her and probably by herself."
An excerpt by Diksha Basu.
Simon & Schuster
@scroll.in"Sanjay found the slums that had grown up around Turkman Gate in the Old City particularly irksome because they obscured the view of the Jama Masjid from Connaught Place."
An excerpt by John Zubrzycki.
Hachette India
@scroll.in"Syed Ahmad selected Aligarh based on several strategic considerations. He wanted a location that was centrally positioned to attract the widest possible patronage while avoiding the distractions of major cities."
An excerpt by Atif Syed.
