Diksha Basu
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I have only one controversial take and that is that parents of babies should not hand out silly little apology packages to fellow passengers on airplanes.
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told my kids they were allowed to hit each other once per day so they should really think it through and not waste their one hit and now they’re calmly discussing when might be the best time to hit each other (but the actual hitting has stopped, I’m a genius)
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Imagine not only having to deal with a crying baby but also having to make small talk and jokes with the parents as they hand you a bag of terrible candy.
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Nobody is winning but we get to zip across the world in little metal tubes and we should be nothing short of in awe of that at all time.
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a grumpy looking man approached me and my rather loud and laughing kids at a bookshop yesterday and I prepared for a scolding but instead he said, “it’s just so nice to see children happy and loving a bookshop”
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my kids just realized I’m turning forty this year, not fourteen.
with a panicked looked they said, “but that’s getting close.”
“to what?”
“one hundred.”
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like my tweets? you’ll love my books.
also, we’ve been lucky enough to be traveling with our kids since they were 7 weeks old and it’s a challenge and a delight and my love to all you parents and those of you who support us.
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my husband, driving: did we just miss our exit?
me, navigating: look how good Meghan Markle looks in these pictures
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I shouted "oh god" in one room and my husband said, "cockroach? I'm coming," from a different room and it was indeed a cockroach and that's why I married him.
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I SAW SOMEONE READING ONE OF MY BOOKS BY THE SWIMMING POOL and I ducked into hedges to hide for reasons unknown to myself and now cannot bring myself to emerge.
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I see all your complaints about globalization and I raise you this.
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I would say my greatest flaw is that I think all my neighbors are in love with me and that it’s causing friction in their marriages.
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make sure you wish
@kaushikcbasu
a happy birthday today and if you know us both make sure you make my day by telling me I’m a lot like him
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introducing the kids to the phenomenon that is Chaiyya Chaiyya and they asked if the train driver knew they were dancing on top of the train
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happy birthday to
@kaushikcbasu
whom I thank for both my nature and nurture and for whom I knitted this extraordinarily stunning scarf AND who let his granddaughters put a little party hat on him
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highly recommend buying my novels to check if they’re about you
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going to write a book called Warnings My Mother Sends me and it’s going to be simply 365 pages of one year of daily terrifying articles my mother manages to find and text me about the dangers of every single thing around us
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someone help, I just saw beauty in the small things. autumn leaves under a sheet of ice
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Obviously it’s terrible but how can you look at this picture of Satyajit Ray and not think smoking is cool? And socks with sandals and a general air of melancholy. Happy birthday anniversary to a genius.
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drivers in Bombay moving aside for ambulances gives me more hope for India than anything else
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it’s wild how kids go from FAST ASLEEP to FULLY AWAKE AND JUMPING with no in between time of sipping coffee and staring blankly out of the window wondering what the point of it all is
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all the white kids are running around in shorts, my one quarter Bengali kids are bundled up in their winter jackets, ready for monkey caps
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apologies to the young single guy who lives next door and has become a family friend and did not anticipate that meant two little girls would knock on his door early on a Sunday morning to say hello
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I am so thrilled to share that (pandemic permitting 🤞) I will be spending Spring 2022 teaching in person at Columbia University, the place that made me a writer. NYC friends, I look forward to seeing your beautiful unmasked faces.
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I miss my parties and my saris. NYC, invite me to everything outdoors this spring, please.
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nothing says true love like your husband putting your phone to charge without your asking
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if you are married to a writer you have to move their book to the bestseller shelf of every bookstore you visit, those are the rules, stop complaining, Michael
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And happy Father’s Day to
@kaushikcbasu
, I always aim for his footsteps as I walk through life (and in this picture, as I walk through Calcutta)
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Channeling my inner Indian academic visiting an American university by wearing my father’s L.L.Bean jacket from 1997.
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Happy five year wedding anniversary to us. I’m not one for sentimentality but being married to Mikey is the best thing in the world.
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signed my kids up for soccer camp despite their lack of interest just so I can be an Indian soccer mom in a small town in America and then write a novel about it
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I woke up at 6am to make (by request) aloo paranthas for my kids camp lunches and if they come back untouched I will simply calmly walk into the East River.
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Happy 40th to me. I got to celebrate with my family over the weekend and today I get to read and write and nap. Here we have
@kaushikcbasu
patiently trying to teach my daughters about art while I ate an enormous piece of cake.
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post-pandemic socializing is going to take some practice - I met a handsome older British man this morning, exactly the kind I’m drawn to, and we chatted away flirtatiously until I said, “would you like to be friends with my husband?”
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then and now, four years later, the pajamas have remained the same
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(I don’t know what the world will look like this fall but) I’m extremely happy to tell you that I will be teaching in Columbia’s MFA program and cannot wait to return to the place that made me a writer.
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39 looks good. Thanks for all the wishes, happy birthday to me.
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America’s big mistake was trying to get people to mask by saying it protects others. If the messaging had been that it is to protect yourself and only yourself everyone would have worn one at all times and the pandemic would be over.
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Auckland airport knows exactly who is trying to bring food in.
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today I took my two and a half year old to see Peppa Pig live and now I know what it would have been like to attend a Beatles concert at the peak of their popularity
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it’s our Indian wedding anniversary today. there are now four Basu-McClearys and still a lot of laughter.
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my father
@kaushikcbasu
has taught me not to praise a loved one in public but today everyone else did it for me (and I'm wearing his shawl; it's freezing in Delhi.)
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I've convinced my toddler that Hamleys is a toy museum where you can't actually buy anything.
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some wonderful news
Welcome to new faculty
@dikshabasu
, the internationally best-selling author of the novels The Windfall and Destination Wedding. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, and several other publications.
#ColumbiaNewFacultyWelcome
@ColumbiaSOA
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did you know that if you sleep for twelve hours a day you can avoid being depressed for twelve hours a day?
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my husband was coming to meet me at a friend's house and he knocked on the wrong door and was welcomed in and given water and offered coffee before they realized he was in the wrong house and that, my friends, is what happens when you're white
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I got to spend the morning with the magnificent
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today and feel charged up and ready to take on the world even though she confessed that her secret weapon is spreadsheets.
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my own half-Indian women leaders who happen to have had a great great grandmother named Kamala.
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hello there, early this morning I gave birth to another little baby and we're all doing well. 2 under 2 chaos begins.
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things are fine. things are good. I have everything under control.
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time for some Father’s Day love.
First, happy Father’s Day to original father
@kaushikcbasu
for his general fatherness, grandfatherness, and THEN, most incredibly, his skills as a father to an often unhinged relatively new mother (me) who needs to regularly be calmed down.
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at our wedding reception eight years ago with the gracious Dr. Manmohan Singh
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I remember years ago in Shantiniketan on New Year's Eve watching an uncle of mine fall asleep well before midnight with a glass full of whiskey balanced on his stomach - I didn't appreciate his genius then but I do now.
Happy new year. Let's hope this one is better.
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my husband freely uses the word ‘home’ in an Uber, as in “we’re almost home,” and I again marvel at the fact that men haven’t been constantly conditioned to not let strangers know where home is
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Shubho Bijoya.
Here’s me in my beloved Kolkata a few years ago.
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was feeling pretty pleased about how happy my kids seemed about starting preschool tomorrow until one of them just shouted, “wait, you aren’t coming?” in a blind panic
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not being sure which country this is about right now may be the saddest thing of all
Do you ever stop and think about how completely, irrevocably fucked this country is
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Those are weird shadows on my face, not dirt but don't look at me when
@priyankachopra
is in the frame, you fools.
@MikeyMcCleary1
is composing the score for her next film, directed by the very talented Shonali Bose, and tonight we celebrated the end of the shoot.
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Ah the 3pm pandemic shower in which you change from yesterday’s pajamas to fresh pajamas.
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Officially married Mikey nine years ago today in New Zealand and then zipped around the Auckland Harbor drinking champagne to celebrate. We were right to be so happy that evening.
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my toddler waits by the window every morning for a specific pigeon that she insists comes to see her and her confidence is making me start to believe it too
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do not disturb. Nothing but respect for Indian ambassador
@priyankachopra
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@BookswithTaylor
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my 3 y.o. just stroked my face and said can I have a lollipop treat because your book is so good and now she has a lollipop in each hand
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my 3 year old pointed at a picture of Kim Kardashian and asked who it was, I acted shocked and said, “You don’t know who that is?”
And she said, “No! Because you don’t let me come to your meetings.”
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Happy Indian Independence Day. Let us use this day as it was intended - to remind everyone that I look excellent in a sari.
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my younger daughter talked for forty-five minutes NONSTOP at bedtime today and when I shifted my leg slightly in the middle of that she turned to me and said, “Why are you doing that? You’re keeping me awake.”
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Shubho Bijoya from half the Basu-McClearys in Bandra three years ago.
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friends outside India, I know many of you want to donate but aren’t sure where - there are plenty of options right now but
@Khalsa_Aid
is always an excellent and reliable choice. thank you for helping.
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my 1.5 year old woke me up at 3am and asked me to kiss her toes and as I smiled through my exhaustion and bent down to do that she kicked me in my face and shouted NO, motherhood is so beautiful
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my toddler spotted a chocolate wrapper on my desk and looked at me accusingly and rapid fire asked:
“what is that?”
“when did you eat it?”
“where was I?”
and let me tell you, she is now furious, FURIOUS
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my husband, the once cool stage musician, former lead singer of a band, yesterday had to hang around outside a theatre asking for black market tickets for Peppa Pig Live
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I’ve been getting a lot of messages from people offering to post positive reviews on Amazon and goodreads for a price and I did not know this was a thing and am disappointed to learn that it is.
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it’s been a hard year but we just had a great day and we have great jackets so 🍾🍾
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anyway here’s an old picture of my glam mother with Brooke Shields
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I think a lot of people in “our circles” secretly vote for Trump and Modi while not revealing it socially for fear of being dismissed and isolated and we need to address why this is happening if we want it to not happen.
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5 year old handed me a sheet of paper on which she had written : I am very happy. If you are also very happy please sign here _______.
along with a pen and waited for me to sign, no questions asked, and then filed it away somewhere in her desk.
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while you’re all here, buy my books:
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3 year old hasn't been keen on school this week so I asked her if someone in class was troubling her. she nodded but wouldn't say who. ok, maybe you don't know the name, let's look at the picture sheet, I said. she pointed at her own picture, laughed, and went off to school.
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As the world shut down in 2020, I had the privilege of being photographed by Bikramjit Bose thanks to Smita Lasrado.
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