Spolia becoming stories... Skendha Singh's marvellous essay on walking through Delhi. @skendhasingh.bsky.social share.google/VmgzoeNdhZQ1...

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Indian cities today want to become Le Corbusier’s fever dreams. Stacked cubes of glass and concrete. Tyrannies of straight lines.
Do we want to live in Instagram grids—uniform & joyless?
Here’s what we lose when we aspire to 🧵

What happens when the media turns a dog into a menace?
– NDTV & Republic made snarling dogs click-bait.
– It becomes public panic, then policy: SC orders mass removal—not sterilization.

Photography isn’t art. It’s power.
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📸 The frame is not just about aesthetics — it’s geopolitics.
A dehumanising image in the paper can become a policy memo tomorrow.
And for Indians abroad, it can become the stare, the slur, the threat.

More from @chiragwakaskar.bsky.social on #WorldPhotographyDay here: tinyurl.com/22ajau84

In India, a Supreme Court directive orders street dogs removed in weeks. In Delhi, leaders celebrate — using Swami Vivekananda’s image.

But history shows he cherished animals and lived the ethic “the world is one family."

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On #InternationalYouthDay, Delhi’s leaders post Vivekananda’s image while backing policies that threaten the lives of lakhs of street dogs.

Vivekananda loved animals. He even had a dog named Bagha.
I write about the deep hypocrisy that is endangering many🐾

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In postcolonial societies, “looking” is never neutral 📷

Photographer-curator Chirag Wakaskar & I talk about how to resist the colonial gaze & what it costs.

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"Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
On the politics of the gaze — and reimagining how we picture the world.

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I wrote about how completing a sketchbook helped me navigate a creative crisis/writing block.

It would be wonderful to hear your thoughts on it! 💫

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Three years, fifty pages, and a whole lot of messy joy.
I wrote about finishing my sketchbook, surviving the middle, and how art thawed my writing.

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Re Astronomer, Coldplay & all that jumbotron - hello, Mercury Rx!

I picked up Help Thanks Wow needing comfort. Instead, I found a question that erased too much. And suffering rendered picturesque.
On glibness & Godliness

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Japanese manga is a part of the University syllabi. Korean skincare gets celebrities raving about glass skin.

Indian designs? Get appropriated as “boho.”

I wrote about Prada, Kolhapuris, and the long afterlife of colonial perception today for Substack.

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Finding my footing on a brand new platform. Feel very Frodo Baggins-y. If you're also writing, wondering and wittering - hello!