Indrapramit Das
@indrapramitdas.bsky.social
aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
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Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:
ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:
Please help Saeed survive Israel's genocide, which has left him sick, starving, & homeless. He's been on Bsky for a long time, & endured much abuse from its users, & many deletions by its admin, but returns just to survive. He needs urgent healthcare:
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Please help Saeed survive Israel's genocide, which has left him sick, starving, & homeless. He's been on Bsky for a long time, & endured much abuse from its users, & many deletions by its admin, but returns just to survive. He needs urgent healthcare:
'We are freezing 🥶💔
We are freezing 🥶💔
Rain and cold drown our nights
My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶
No work, no income
Donations have stopped 💔
I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏
My husband is captive, and my child and I are sick and need treatment 🤕🤍'
We are freezing 🥶💔
Rain and cold drown our nights
My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶
No work, no income
Donations have stopped 💔
I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏
My husband is captive, and my child and I are sick and need treatment 🤕🤍'
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
'We are freezing 🥶💔
We are freezing 🥶💔
Rain and cold drown our nights
My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶
No work, no income
Donations have stopped 💔
I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏
My husband is captive, and my child and I are sick and need treatment 🤕🤍'
We are freezing 🥶💔
Rain and cold drown our nights
My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶
No work, no income
Donations have stopped 💔
I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏
My husband is captive, and my child and I are sick and need treatment 🤕🤍'
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ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
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ICYMI, I wrote a book about dragoners, refugees to our reality, set in 90s/00s Calcutta.
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
ICYMI, I wrote a book about dragoners, refugees to our reality, set in 90s/00s Calcutta.
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The dragoner (III).
June 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The dragoner (III).
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The dragoner (I)
May 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The dragoner (I)
'I lost my home in the war and now live in a tattered tent. My husband lost a hand, and my life and future have been destroyed. My children are malnourished due to lack of food. I beg you, please donate to buy food, treat my husband and children, and repair my tent.😭😭😭'
January 26, 2026 at 4:38 PM
'I lost my home in the war and now live in a tattered tent. My husband lost a hand, and my life and future have been destroyed. My children are malnourished due to lack of food. I beg you, please donate to buy food, treat my husband and children, and repair my tent.😭😭😭'
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The Living End (1992, Gregg Araki)
April 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Living End (1992, Gregg Araki)
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rewatched the living end by gregg araki
perfect film were there to be a queer wrath month
perfect film were there to be a queer wrath month
May 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
rewatched the living end by gregg araki
perfect film were there to be a queer wrath month
perfect film were there to be a queer wrath month
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Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!
January 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!
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Blair Brown and William Hurt in ALTERED STATES (1980, Ken Russell)
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Blair Brown and William Hurt in ALTERED STATES (1980, Ken Russell)
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Baraa has lost two daughters to Israel's ongoing genocide, please help her keep her remaining child Ibrahim alive as Palestinians are left homeless & starving in winter rain. They urgently need shelter from the frequent storms:
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Baraa has lost two daughters to Israel's ongoing genocide, please help her keep her remaining child Ibrahim alive as Palestinians are left homeless & starving in winter rain. They urgently need shelter from the frequent storms:
Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving in winter. Please help them survive, Bsky deletes them constantly:
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving in winter. Please help them survive, Bsky deletes them constantly:
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Head ablaze, I ran indoors with my friend. I put out the sparking flames with my hands. We stood, uncertain about the future, not ready to face death yet, hands black with burned hair.
Dreamed a friend were infected, waiting in a house for the end, during a pandemic of a disease that made people burn up in daylight like vampires. We sat at dawn in a courtyard; the first rays of the sun hit my head, which lit up like a giant sparkler. I could feel the heat & light, but no pain.
January 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Head ablaze, I ran indoors with my friend. I put out the sparking flames with my hands. We stood, uncertain about the future, not ready to face death yet, hands black with burned hair.
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¡Ceci n'est pas une banane république!
Glad to be back on Worker's Lit talking about this truly wild and wooly novel!
Glad to be back on Worker's Lit talking about this truly wild and wooly novel!
9/11, Hamlet, the Statue of Liberty, Segismundo, Zoroastrianism, Puerto Rican Independence, Bananas. What do these have in common? This book.
Today we are joined by @kjy1066.bsky.social of @podside-picnic.bsky.social to discuss “The United States of Banana.” By Giannina Braschi.
Listen now!
Today we are joined by @kjy1066.bsky.social of @podside-picnic.bsky.social to discuss “The United States of Banana.” By Giannina Braschi.
Listen now!
January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM
¡Ceci n'est pas une banane république!
Glad to be back on Worker's Lit talking about this truly wild and wooly novel!
Glad to be back on Worker's Lit talking about this truly wild and wooly novel!
'Donations aren’t meeting our needs. Where is your humanity? 🥺 We are dying in silence. Please, can you donate and help me? Only $200 left of my goal to buy medicine. Any support matters. Please stand with us and help us survive. 🙏 Every share counts. Thank you all🙏
gofund.me/78acabc1
☑️ Molly shah'
gofund.me/78acabc1
☑️ Molly shah'
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
'Donations aren’t meeting our needs. Where is your humanity? 🥺 We are dying in silence. Please, can you donate and help me? Only $200 left of my goal to buy medicine. Any support matters. Please stand with us and help us survive. 🙏 Every share counts. Thank you all🙏
gofund.me/78acabc1
☑️ Molly shah'
gofund.me/78acabc1
☑️ Molly shah'
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the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock
January 26, 2026 at 3:53 PM
the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock
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A friendly reminder that submissions CLOSE for our upcoming issue this Saturday. Keep them coming! Share with a Black SFF writer in your circle 🖤🖤🖤
Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
A friendly reminder that submissions CLOSE for our upcoming issue this Saturday. Keep them coming! Share with a Black SFF writer in your circle 🖤🖤🖤
Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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This is such a good article, and the passage on my story ‘Black Water’ has made my day.
![A screenshot of the linked article, which reads:
The protagonist of Seán Padraic Birnie's "Black Water" also moves in metaphors and critical theories, haunted by his weird reading of the nature of reality. He "often felt as if he had not quite woken up: Some days it was twilight all day long. He had theories about that, but the trip was supposed to take him out of that frame of mind in which he developed theories. A theory, he knew, could get you in trouble." In particular, it is his theory regarding the fictionality of the world-"That none of it's real[,] not really [... which] haunts me." The perspectivism of the weird is also expressed in the chronic pain and infestation or impregnation of the story's male protagonist: He awakes in his captivity and sees through the "dim translucency" of his belly "eyes flitting through a flowing substance akin to smoke or black water."
Black Water is also the title of a pair of Alberto Manguel anthologies that typify, without using the term, the brackish weird— collected stories where Manguel found "the impossible seeping into the possible, what Wallace
Stevens calls 'black water breaking into reality?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fykzkntjvyfwezlxgn6mtfvn/bafkreibseygv7fsdfbuk576tkyqz6b5wb7jiyvkkgw3ohugkhogrpvoslu@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This is such a good article, and the passage on my story ‘Black Water’ has made my day.
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I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor
While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.
reactormag.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
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The two humans I talked to, at the centre of that very long bridge, sometimes faced into drawings of themselves, as if they were not so real on this alien world.
January 24, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The two humans I talked to, at the centre of that very long bridge, sometimes faced into drawings of themselves, as if they were not so real on this alien world.
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Under a purple sky, whether as the headless woman in the living exosuit or as someone else, I walked across a vast, long bridge, kilometres across and above the planet, & chatted with 2 other explorers above an alien city where we knew we wouldn't be welcome, its ziggurats & streets aglow w/ light.
Dreamed I was an explorer on an alien exoplanet, with a living, insectoid space suit that had beheaded me, & kept my head (that of a woman not me in waking life) at its waist, sometimes using a nanoparticle vacuum to deconstruct and suck it into a compressed solution, & then injecting it out again.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Under a purple sky, whether as the headless woman in the living exosuit or as someone else, I walked across a vast, long bridge, kilometres across and above the planet, & chatted with 2 other explorers above an alien city where we knew we wouldn't be welcome, its ziggurats & streets aglow w/ light.
Please help Mahmoud survive Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has left them starving & homeless. Mahmoud is caring for his sister's orphaned children:
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Please help Mahmoud survive Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has left them starving & homeless. Mahmoud is caring for his sister's orphaned children:
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📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
26 January 2026
Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special!
strangehorizons.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.