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1 week ago | 
thehindu.com | Priya Ramani
Kanishka Gupta, 43, is likely the most popular book agent in the country right now. One strategy that has helped him go from being an outsider who “didn’t know the ABC of agenting” — and someone whom publishers fobbed off by saying they didn’t pay author advances — to an industry insider who runs the largest literary agency in South Asia, is that he always keeps his doors open. “I don’t say, tune mujhe kitab nahi di, katti (You didn’t give me your book, so I won’t speak to you),”he says.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Priya Ramani
2 hours agoAfter Iran, India to now evacuate nationals from Israel under Operation SindhuMEA said evacuation process from Israel would involve travel by land within region, followed by air transport to India. 110 Indian students evacuated …11 hours agoThe seven wonders of the world, ranked from best to worstThe seven wonders of the world are, well, wondrous, and each demonstrates the fascinating scale and skill of human creation.
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1 week ago | 
priyaramani.substack.com | Priya Ramani
Twenty years after it was first launched and five years after it was discontinued, the Times Group has suddenly rediscovered its love for print and relaunched Mumbai Mirror. I’m convinced it has something to do with bundling advertising across brands for more money but the suits say it’s going to be a “” (lol) avatar. The advertisement announcing the return promises “fearless reporting”.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Priya Ramani
It was 1993 and Manjula Pradeep’s fingers wereflying over an electronic typewriter as she tried to make sense of the evidence, testimony and haunting postmortem report of a young Dalit man who had died of custodial torture. The victim’s mother had brought the case to Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat’s leading anti-caste grassroots organisation where Pradeep was a freshly minted postgraduate in social work. She had just joined as the NGO’s first female employee.
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3 weeks ago | 
priyaramani.substack.com | Priya Ramani
“Are all liberal arts universities activist in nature?” The founder of one of India’s premier universities just asked Google AI this question and then proudly shared his response in an internal email. I can’t stop laughing.
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1 month ago | 
priyaramani.substack.com | Priya Ramani
Banu Mushtaq just gave us a We-Are-The-World moment. The Karnataka-based author did a service to a tortured world by reminding us in her International Booker Prize acceptance speech that the main quality we need to survive and thrive is empathy. That all our lives are equally important. And that the only way forward is if we open ourselves to experiencing each other’s realities. What better platform to say this on than while receiving the world’s most influential award for translated fiction.
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1 month ago | 
thequint.com | Priya Ramani
Despite all the violence that women face, all one reads about these days is masculine anxiety, writes Priya Ramani. Spare me another explainer on the crisis of masculinity—especially after we just saw how it played out on the battlefield. This past fortnight, we witnessed a terrifying display of ‘manhood’ expressed through a series of ‘fitting replies’ between two hyper-masculine nations, egged on by their shadow militaries.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Priya Ramani
People go into the sea to swim, Rosalind Pereira observes. “Then they discard their clothes on the beach and get into new clothes.” For the co-founder of Project Aamhi, a community waste management effort that enables people in 17 coastal Maharashtra villages to keep their neighbourhoods and beaches clean, this peculiar swimming habit sparked an idea.
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1 month ago | 
thenodmag.com | Priya Ramani
When doctors wanted to treat Mini Mathur’s symptoms—weight gain, poor attention, difficulty sleeping, brain fog, anxiety—as the sum of parts, she decided to “help myself” and get educated on perimenopause. As she read, she awakened her inner geek and, within weeks, she signed up to be part of the Women’s Health Coach Certification Programme at The Integrative Women’s Health Institute in the US.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Priya Ramani
Giant arcs of metal and concrete dominate the landscape. Skyscrapers with sea views have balcony seats to the excavation of Mumbai’s soul. As three figures from the Holocaust gaze silently into the city’s bowels where a grave of bodies lies forgotten and surrounded by demolished homes, a red wave on a highway leads cars to a gate on the upper right corner of the painting: the doorway to Auschwitz. ‘Work liberates’, the Nazis had emblazoned on the concentration camp gate.
