Jo Chopra McGowan
@indiajo.bsky.social
Books, disability, architecture, India
An unforgettably perfect vignette from The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner of two women keeping watch at an old man's deathbed.
July 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
An unforgettably perfect vignette from The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner of two women keeping watch at an old man's deathbed.
After a fitful night filled with dreams of ICE kidnappings and Israeli bombs, I read this passage in The Corner That Held Them: "It will not happen," he said. "I assure you it will not happen. The things which one dreads never come to pass."
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
After a fitful night filled with dreams of ICE kidnappings and Israeli bombs, I read this passage in The Corner That Held Them: "It will not happen," he said. "I assure you it will not happen. The things which one dreads never come to pass."
Here's a photo of him holding my mother (the one on his right) and her twin sister in 1924.
(He died in 1936, so no, I didn't ever meet him! 😂)
(He died in 1936, so no, I didn't ever meet him! 😂)
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here's a photo of him holding my mother (the one on his right) and her twin sister in 1924.
(He died in 1936, so no, I didn't ever meet him! 😂)
(He died in 1936, so no, I didn't ever meet him! 😂)
Sound up for a terrific May Day pro-Democracy demonstration in #SanJose this afternoon.
Go away, Mr #Trump. Nobody wants you here.
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Go away, Mr #Trump. Nobody wants you here.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Sound up for a terrific May Day pro-Democracy demonstration in #SanJose this afternoon.
Go away, Mr #Trump. Nobody wants you here.
@50501sanjose.bsky.social
Go away, Mr #Trump. Nobody wants you here.
@50501sanjose.bsky.social
The coffee at 1 Oz is so good I don't add my usual spoon of sugar. And have thus discovered that the pretty milk design lasts for the whole experience. #1Oz
April 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The coffee at 1 Oz is so good I don't add my usual spoon of sugar. And have thus discovered that the pretty milk design lasts for the whole experience. #1Oz
Listening to Donald Trump and reading Riddley Walker: "O what we ben! And what we come to ..."
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March 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Listening to Donald Trump and reading Riddley Walker: "O what we ben! And what we come to ..."
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I added a lamp to the kitchen table. It's amazing how much easier it is to ignore the dishes and just keep reading.
February 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I added a lamp to the kitchen table. It's amazing how much easier it is to ignore the dishes and just keep reading.
2025 will be a difficult year but we will get through it and then 2026 will come and that will be difficult too.
Life will continue to open and open and open.
Life will continue to open and open and open.
January 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
2025 will be a difficult year but we will get through it and then 2026 will come and that will be difficult too.
Life will continue to open and open and open.
Life will continue to open and open and open.
We are one of the few houses in Dehradun who decorate for Christmas - people ask if they can have their picture taken in front of our tree. Once 3 kids came on Christmas morning to see the tree. Ravi was at the table having breakfast and one of the kids said: “Auntie? Father Christmas lives HERE?”
December 25, 2024 at 7:13 AM
We are one of the few houses in Dehradun who decorate for Christmas - people ask if they can have their picture taken in front of our tree. Once 3 kids came on Christmas morning to see the tree. Ravi was at the table having breakfast and one of the kids said: “Auntie? Father Christmas lives HERE?”
Every morning at 7:15 this baby cow comes and moos outside our neighbours' gate and every morning they come outside to greet her and give her breakfast. #India
December 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Every morning at 7:15 this baby cow comes and moos outside our neighbours' gate and every morning they come outside to greet her and give her breakfast. #India
Bewitched by The Forsyte Saga. A story about property (including women) and the debilitating power of wealth.
"Nothing annoyed Soames so much as cheerfulness - an indecent, extravagant sort of quality, which had no relation to facts."
"Nothing annoyed Soames so much as cheerfulness - an indecent, extravagant sort of quality, which had no relation to facts."
December 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Bewitched by The Forsyte Saga. A story about property (including women) and the debilitating power of wealth.
"Nothing annoyed Soames so much as cheerfulness - an indecent, extravagant sort of quality, which had no relation to facts."
"Nothing annoyed Soames so much as cheerfulness - an indecent, extravagant sort of quality, which had no relation to facts."
This bookstore in Delhi was full of a surprising number of books I've never seen in one place in India. I asked the owner where she got her ideas and she asked me if I'd ever heard of @backlisted.bsky.social.
John & Andy? I said. Have I HEARD of them? They run my life!
John & Andy? I said. Have I HEARD of them? They run my life!
December 8, 2024 at 3:59 PM
This bookstore in Delhi was full of a surprising number of books I've never seen in one place in India. I asked the owner where she got her ideas and she asked me if I'd ever heard of @backlisted.bsky.social.
John & Andy? I said. Have I HEARD of them? They run my life!
John & Andy? I said. Have I HEARD of them? They run my life!
Visited my favorite Delhi bookstore & snagged their last copy of The Haunted Wood. When I read the part about the author's daughter's encounter with Charlotte's Web, I literally trembled. The book reached out & shook me. What writing!
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December 8, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Visited my favorite Delhi bookstore & snagged their last copy of The Haunted Wood. When I read the part about the author's daughter's encounter with Charlotte's Web, I literally trembled. The book reached out & shook me. What writing!
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Victoria Terminus, Mumbai #Architecture
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Victoria Terminus, Mumbai #Architecture
Latika, an organisation for #disabled children and adults in Dehradun, India is building a campus on universal design principles. After my kids, it's the most exciting thing I've ever done.
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Latika, an organisation for #disabled children and adults in Dehradun, India is building a campus on universal design principles. After my kids, it's the most exciting thing I've ever done.
This book was so unexpectedly funny and sad and completely delightful.
Why did it take me long to discover it?
@backlisted.bsky.social to the rescue, as usual.
Why did it take me long to discover it?
@backlisted.bsky.social to the rescue, as usual.
November 23, 2024 at 5:50 AM
This book was so unexpectedly funny and sad and completely delightful.
Why did it take me long to discover it?
@backlisted.bsky.social to the rescue, as usual.
Why did it take me long to discover it?
@backlisted.bsky.social to the rescue, as usual.
Daughter and granddaughter carefully reading the instruction sheet for the at-home #Covid test (Granddaughter, while fluent in English and Hindi, is "reading" hers in Spanish).
October 31, 2023 at 12:41 AM
Daughter and granddaughter carefully reading the instruction sheet for the at-home #Covid test (Granddaughter, while fluent in English and Hindi, is "reading" hers in Spanish).