Tejas 🦚
@ytejas.bsky.social
✨ 📚 ☕ ✍🏾 🌈
MSc(Oxford), PhD(Cornell), Postdoc(Curie Institute).
Mol Bio, Psych, Writer.
Interested in lit, history, mental health, 🌏 & social justice.
🗣️ EN,FR, ES, Hindi.
🔗 https://writejas.wordpress.com
📍France
MSc(Oxford), PhD(Cornell), Postdoc(Curie Institute).
Mol Bio, Psych, Writer.
Interested in lit, history, mental health, 🌏 & social justice.
🗣️ EN,FR, ES, Hindi.
🔗 https://writejas.wordpress.com
📍France
A mordant but fair critique of the much celebrated "Great Mughals" exhibition at the V&A museum in London.
@empirepoduk.bsky.social fans and @willdalrymple.bsky.social , @anitaanand.bsky.social , what do you think?
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@empirepoduk.bsky.social fans and @willdalrymple.bsky.social , @anitaanand.bsky.social , what do you think?
scroll.in/article/1081...
‘Great Mughals’ show in London reinforces colonial perspectives that museums claim to be questioning
The Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition highlights opulence isolated from the complex political, intellectual and religious histories that underpin it.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A mordant but fair critique of the much celebrated "Great Mughals" exhibition at the V&A museum in London.
@empirepoduk.bsky.social fans and @willdalrymple.bsky.social , @anitaanand.bsky.social , what do you think?
scroll.in/article/1081...
@empirepoduk.bsky.social fans and @willdalrymple.bsky.social , @anitaanand.bsky.social , what do you think?
scroll.in/article/1081...
So excited to even make it to the shortlist of the Writers retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices 2025 @lambdaliterary.org ! Merci 😊
April 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
So excited to even make it to the shortlist of the Writers retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices 2025 @lambdaliterary.org ! Merci 😊
The story of our favourite drink. ☕
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April 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The story of our favourite drink. ☕
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Food & Feelings, what's the real connection?
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So you think you’re in control? Your gut disagrees.
A party of tiny bacteria living in our intestines are controlling us. And they don’t even pay rent!
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March 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Food & Feelings, what's the real connection?
ytejas.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...
ytejas.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...
Thrilled to say I've just received news that my fiction piece will be included in the third anthology "Queer Life, Queer Love" . Thanks Kate,Sarah, Karen, Matt & everyone else @muswellpress.bsky.social ! Absolutely honoured 😁
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thrilled to say I've just received news that my fiction piece will be included in the third anthology "Queer Life, Queer Love" . Thanks Kate,Sarah, Karen, Matt & everyone else @muswellpress.bsky.social ! Absolutely honoured 😁
Inspired by some of my favourite writers and my passion for food, words, science, language and history I'm starting my own publication on Substack. Please feel free to like, comment, subscribe and share : open.substack.com/pub/ytejas/p...
Edible Stories
Welcome to "The Hungry Mind" : a space where food, history, language, science, travel & life’s absurdities collide with love & curiosity.
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March 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Inspired by some of my favourite writers and my passion for food, words, science, language and history I'm starting my own publication on Substack. Please feel free to like, comment, subscribe and share : open.substack.com/pub/ytejas/p...
Saw a French play tonight :"Passeport" is about refugees & asylum seekers. Largely bourgeois White audience laughed along as this parody appropriated real suffering for a risible, theatrical travesty, all for the consumption "progressive" Parisians. Voyeuristic mockery ≠ entertainment. #Deplorable
December 20, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Saw a French play tonight :"Passeport" is about refugees & asylum seekers. Largely bourgeois White audience laughed along as this parody appropriated real suffering for a risible, theatrical travesty, all for the consumption "progressive" Parisians. Voyeuristic mockery ≠ entertainment. #Deplorable
Is it just me or does @stephenfry.bsky.social need to be cast in a biopic of the irascible @slavojiek.bsky.social ?
December 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Is it just me or does @stephenfry.bsky.social need to be cast in a biopic of the irascible @slavojiek.bsky.social ?
Ah @willdalrymple.bsky.social, I didn't know you've been chatting about your latest book "The Golden Road"and ancient India with our own funnyman, Cyrus Broacha! Looking forward to this. youtu.be/_oEj1VwAJxY?...
William Dalrymple: How Ancient India Shaped the World - Trade, Buddhism & Mathematical Legacy
YouTube video by Cyrus Says
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December 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Ah @willdalrymple.bsky.social, I didn't know you've been chatting about your latest book "The Golden Road"and ancient India with our own funnyman, Cyrus Broacha! Looking forward to this. youtu.be/_oEj1VwAJxY?...
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A mob threw tea into Boston Harbour today in 1773 protesting a corrupt executive determined to impose tarrifs on trade to suit the needs of a powerful corporation.
December 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
A mob threw tea into Boston Harbour today in 1773 protesting a corrupt executive determined to impose tarrifs on trade to suit the needs of a powerful corporation.
Learning the art of brilliant creative nonfiction through this intimate, lyrical, wild and sublime essay from 2021 by @melissafebos.bsky.social. @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/wild...
Melissa Febos: "The Wild, Sublime Body"
An essay by Melissa Febos: "Intimacy, I’ve found, has little to do with romance."
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December 13, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Learning the art of brilliant creative nonfiction through this intimate, lyrical, wild and sublime essay from 2021 by @melissafebos.bsky.social. @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/wild...
Throwing this into the lot, @anitaanand.bsky.social . My favourite Birbal story growing up ! More on @empirepoduk.bsky.social this week.
www.birbalgroup.com/birbalkhichadi
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
www.birbalgroup.com/birbalkhichadi
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Birbal’s Khichadi | Birbal Group
Hope can inspire people to work hard.
www.birbalgroup.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Throwing this into the lot, @anitaanand.bsky.social . My favourite Birbal story growing up ! More on @empirepoduk.bsky.social this week.
www.birbalgroup.com/birbalkhichadi
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
www.birbalgroup.com/birbalkhichadi
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Discovering Borges, belatedly, in Spanish. Masterful. Why didn't I read this sooner?
December 9, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Discovering Borges, belatedly, in Spanish. Masterful. Why didn't I read this sooner?
Wept, smiled, danced in my seat, and soaked in every bit of happiness, hurt and hope in this beautiful #movie. Please go watch it. #CrossingIstanbul
December 8, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Wept, smiled, danced in my seat, and soaked in every bit of happiness, hurt and hope in this beautiful #movie. Please go watch it. #CrossingIstanbul
The mainstream French mania over Notre Dame continues... If only they cared half as much about people dying in wars, right?!
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
The mainstream French mania over Notre Dame continues... If only they cared half as much about people dying in wars, right?!
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This is my very much NOT surprised face. Still furious though. Do. Better. Publishing. www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...
Publishers Association report reveals 'disappointing drop' in ethnic minority representation within industry
A report by the Publishers Association (PA) has revealed that "ethnic minority" representation fell by 2% in 2024, with a decline in the numbers of Asian and British Asian staff.
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December 5, 2024 at 8:46 AM
This is my very much NOT surprised face. Still furious though. Do. Better. Publishing. www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...
Another year of great podcasts. Thanks @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social !
December 4, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Another year of great podcasts. Thanks @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social !
Glad to be on here and hopefully reunite with new and old friends and build a community with shared values, away from "ex"-apps !
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Glad to be on here and hopefully reunite with new and old friends and build a community with shared values, away from "ex"-apps !
What a brilliant first episode! For the Babur nerds, here's a parallel perspective from the extraordinary @amitav.bsky.social : amitavghosh.com/other-works-.... And here's @willdalrymple.bsky.social's introduction to the Beveridge translation: openthemagazine.com/lounge/books....
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
What a brilliant first episode! For the Babur nerds, here's a parallel perspective from the extraordinary @amitav.bsky.social : amitavghosh.com/other-works-.... And here's @willdalrymple.bsky.social's introduction to the Beveridge translation: openthemagazine.com/lounge/books....