Keshav Bansal (he/him)
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
Reading Independence 🇮🇳 ✊🏽
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reading Independence 🇮🇳 ✊🏽
"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947
🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947
🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947
🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947
🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
July 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗
June 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗
Book haul... 🤓😋🤗
May 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Book haul... 🤓😋🤗
Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️
May 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️
“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.”
~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930
🙄😒😞😶
~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930
🙄😒😞😶
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.”
~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930
🙄😒😞😶
~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930
🙄😒😞😶
I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥
March 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥
~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖
March 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖
On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.
March 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.
✊🏽+🔥 = 📖 #BhagatSingh #KarlMarx 🤓 ❤️
January 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
✊🏽+🔥 = 📖 #BhagatSingh #KarlMarx 🤓 ❤️
“It is one of the legacies of colonialism that the economic relations among developing countries are far less developed than the economic links between developing and developed countries.”
— Manmohan Singh, 1972
— Manmohan Singh, 1972
December 28, 2024 at 1:16 PM
“It is one of the legacies of colonialism that the economic relations among developing countries are far less developed than the economic links between developing and developed countries.”
— Manmohan Singh, 1972
— Manmohan Singh, 1972
“My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
The books I read — I like to buy.”
🤓😋🤗
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
The books I read — I like to buy.”
🤓😋🤗
December 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM
“My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
The books I read — I like to buy.”
🤓😋🤗
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
The books I read — I like to buy.”
🤓😋🤗
brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗
December 7, 2024 at 4:54 PM
brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗