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Sindhu Rajasekaran
@sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social
Literary Nomad ~ Curatrix at The Subjective Space ~ PhD in Creative Writing ~ Author & Academic

Books: Forbidden Desire (Simon & Schuster 2025); Smashing the Patriarchy (Aleph Book Company 2021); So I Let It Be (Pegasus 2019)
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My latest book, Forbidden Desire - How the British Stole India's Queer Pasts & Queer Futures, aims to undo the deleterious effects of British colonialism on India's rich queer past.

More here: www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Forbid...
Busy with my book tour starting today; won't be posting here much; new moon, new beginnings, new thoughts; setting myself free; done with the old; catch me on IG for book tour updates; here's me saying goodbye now ~
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Speaking (virtually) at my alma mater, The University of Edinburgh's New College, on Friday, about Forbidden Desire. It's gonna be more of a discussion with members of the university's Pride Society & Brown Girl Society. If only I could've attended in person. All the other participants are!
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Are theories such as classical electrodynamics & non-relativistic #quantummechanics time-reversal invariant? In a recent @thebjps.bsky.social article, Ward Struyve argues that—with a suitable choice of ontology—they are! Read the 📃 here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The past is always tense, the future perfect.

- Zadie Smith, White teeth
born on this day, 1975

#BookSky
#ZadieSmith
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Henri Matisse
Magnolia, 1941.
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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just saw somebody post this as their entire holiday decorating! I so feel that!
December 5, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Look forward to this. Conducting a creative writing masterclass for The Bombay Review this weekend. Share with anyone who may be interested.

Register here: www.instagram.com/thebombayrev...
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Back to the Future (1985)

#SciFi #FilmSky #Movies #Cinema
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cello Concerto in A Minor, RV 419: III. Allegro
YouTube video by Anastasia Kobekina - Topic
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November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“Books bend space and time... You stray into L-space at your peril.”
#TerryPratchett 

This is the bookstore cat. 
Which bookstore? All of them.

#Discworld #DigitalArt #Krita #Art #KWPrompts #CoolCats #Cats #CatSky
May 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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author’s copy; author’s note 🐞
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
~ reading material
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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(oracles)
March 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social discusses Anglophone Indian writing, readership & the mechanics of publishing w/ the Editorial Director of Pan Macmillan India, Pujitha Krishnan.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3s84...
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Aruna Sairam & Soumik Datta | UTSAV | Bonus Track Tillana
YouTube video by Bagri Foundation
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Toronto snowstorm
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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right?
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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‘For many writers, loyalty was above all to a region and a linguistic community, rather than to India writ large.’

Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

granta.com/indian-tempt...
Indian Temptations | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Granta
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"Aestheticism Now!," a special issue of Genre, is now available: buff.ly/ADPYVfQ

Read the introduction, "On the Politics of Aesthetic Detachment" by Aleksandar Stević, freely available: buff.ly/Ih5tHjD
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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did i need a giant fuecoco plushie? probably not. was he on sale for $27 instead of $40? yes. yes, he was.
December 26, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Super excited - I'm speaking at the Manorama Hortus this year!

www.manoramahortus.com/speakerInner...
HORTUS Festival 2024 Highlights | Next Stop: Kochi, Nov 27–30, 2025
YouTube video by Manorama Hortus
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November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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They don't make underwear catalogues like they used to.
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM