Rahul Singh
@rahulzsing
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I read books and I write about them. PhD | Sociology | Fiction | Urban Soc
Kolkata, India
Joined December 2016
My short story ‘An island of two’ is published in Sahitya Akademi’s INDIAN Literature for their Nov-Dec 2021 issue. It’s a story of three gay boys sitting in an apartment in South Kolkata and smoking a joint 🥰 @sahityaakademi
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With every JM Coetzee novel I read, I realise how important it is to write simply and write well. Complexities of life get revealed when you write for your characters and their stories. . #booktwt #books #BookTwitter #Reading @NobelPrize
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@ProfSrilaRoy @NobelPrize That’s nice to know. Good to introduce them so early. I read Disgrace when I had just finished high school. 🥲
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@KatyaTaylor Appalling how Austen has to reduced to such inanities to be relevant for those who can't *read* classics because of the 'language'.
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@tanujsolanki I went to Bengaluru late last year and returned with 25 books🫠 all second hand. Just love love the bookshops there
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@hering_david I am halfway through the book and it just gets mad now. I do hope we return to Miss MacIntosh and we stop about Mr. Spritzer dying “twice” (not a spoiler) for a 100 times now.
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@SaibBilaval Jairus Banaji is such an excellent thinker! I was enamoured reading his interpretation of Capital😍 How can one get this book in the pic in Calcutta?
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RT @janetjwang: As we mourn Michael Burawoy, a brilliant scholar who envisioned and fought for a better world, let us remember his words an…
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If there’s one novel you want to read on a young couple holidaying, fucking crazily and going about Paris, or if you want to write such a novel with a narrator growing fond with admiration and envy, this should be the one! #booktwt #books #BookTwitter
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My thoughts on Alina Gufran’s novel is out on @DeccanHerald where I write about Anne Carson’s idea of space and femininity. Flawed protagonists. And survival in an increasingly turbulent India. #books @WestlandBooks #booktwt @shmira21 #BookTwitter #BookReviews
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RT @utterflea: "Wajsbrot plays with form, ideas and writing making the reader experience her protagonist's turmoil more ideologically than…
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I reviewed Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot for @htTweets . Read my thoughts to know whether the book is for you or not! Thanks, @seagullbooks @utterflea #booktwt #BookRecommendation #translation #book
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So long, Proust. The last 6 years have been made special by your books. PS: that is one of the MANY dead #oliveridley turtles was washed up on the shore which was deeply disturbing. #books #booktwt #bengal #beach
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@al0bar_ Dan Zahavi's book is the best book to get into it. And after this you can pick up 'Four Phenomenological Thinkers' by Chr Macann
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