Splendid evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social celebrating @wasafirimag.bsky.social Nee Writing Prize. Beautiful readings, Great Panel on Literary Translation and moving speeches from the winners! The panel of judges was chaired this year by Romesh Gunesekera - Congratulations, team!!!!

Great to hear Amitav Ghosh introduce his new book, Wild Fiction in a wide ranging conversation with Pankaj Mishra #books

Weekend Reading - excited to start Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest - Theft

Retrograde at the Apollo theatre 🎭 is a must see- a stunning play about Sidney Poitier, moral choices, Hollywood and principles. A play that I loved at the Kiln theatre that has now even more urgency. Powerful central performances and exquisite direction by Amit Sharma

Kanal Basu‘s The Minaturist is my read for the week…

Well Manchester you did not disappoint- if you get the chance make your way over to IWM North to visit the wonderful Chila Kumari Singh Burman exhibition.

Carly Phillips, Another Man in the Street…

Light of Passage is a stunning beautiful piece of dance - words can’t capture how much it moved me…

Wonderful launch of @wasafirimag.bsky.social latest special issue featuring Armenian writing. Superstar guest editors walking us through the issue accompanied by powerful readings and musical performances. The issue is selling like hot cakes and is already on its second printing! Congratulations 🙌🏼

Brilliant evening to catch The Importance of Being Earnest @nationaltheatre.org.uk tonight.

Finally made it to juhu beach!!! And of course befriended the local cats!

First time back in Bombay since 2011 - missed this place!

Should I upgrade from cat uncle to cat dad?

Current reading - 📖 Jameson’s latest and last one but holding out hope that the book forthcoming at the time of his death Categories of the Narrative-Historical will still make it into print. Thank you Felicity Gee for always holding a candle for this titan. Your enthusiasm led me back to him…