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Narayani Basu
@narayanibasu.bsky.social
Historian of modern India | Research nerd | Author & biographer | Archive hound | Full-time chai lover

V.P.Menon: The Unsung Architect Of Modern India: https://amzn.eu/d/3Busqcz

Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/41iQH4E
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K.M. Panikkar truly embodied the chaos and the excitement of a new nation.
To read more about his fascinating life, get your copy of @narayanibasu.bsky.social 's A Man for All Seasons from your favourite bookstore or online.
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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K.M Panikkar was a multi-tasking superhero!
Read about his various avatars in @narayanibasu.bsky.social 's riveting biography, A Man for All Seasons.

Now in bookstores and online.
July 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Monday blues sorted!
We are bookstore hopping in #Delhi and talking about what makes KM Panikkar one of the most interesting figures of Indian history with @narayanibasu.bsky.social
Join us on 14 July.
July 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The fruits of 2014 to 2025.

Sneaking in a little awkward pride in myself.
June 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
OKAY OKAY! This is now REAL and while I'm nervous as hell and while the world is burning, I'm still really excited because this has been 5 years & a pandemic in the making.

Preorders for the biography of KM Panikkar are open! Available at bookstores near you & online! ✨
The big summer book is here! @narayanibasu.bsky.social 's detailed biography of K.M. Panikkar, one of India's most fascinating figures, the public intellectual and diplomat who helped shape the new nation, A Man For All Seasons is now available for pre-order.
amzn.in/d/3WfRsjI
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This heat will be the end of me my god
June 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I should start getting active here again, no?
June 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Proofing bunker.

Getting this book ready may well end my days 🥹
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Dusk in Delhi.
December 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
A flight to northeast India is always beautiful.

This, I think, is Kanchenjunga.
November 28, 2024 at 4:30 AM
The way I forget to post here is quite magnificent.
November 27, 2024 at 12:30 PM
My biography of V.P Menon, Reforms Commissioner to India's last three Viceroys & the man who, along with Sardar Patel, got 565 princely states to sign on India's dotted line, goes into print yet again(!!!). ✨

Available at bookstores near you or online at : amzn.in/d/ajoXQHd
November 21, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Second flight this week tomorrow. All I want in the middle of final edits & cover designs & general chaos is a NAP ffs.
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Descending into Delhi in November means being greeted by this ugly brownish-grey filth.
November 18, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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And again, full now but a selection of women working in/waffling about history for you to choose from go.bsky.app/KNeAnRj
November 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
A Man for All Seasons, a biography on K.M. Panikkar, will be out in January 2025. It's taken five years and a pandemic to write this.

NERVES.
November 17, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout.... The Spectator reviews Avinash Paliwal (SOAS) new book: 'a gripping tale of espionage that opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
South Asia in a time of the breaking of nations
Early on Christmas morning in 1962, the Indian diplomat S.S. Banerjee heard a mysterious knock on his door in Dacca, East Pakistan. Standing outside in the darkness was a 14-year-old boy, who beckoned...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 8:55 AM
I guess it's time, eh?
a cartoon baboon says it is time
ALT: a cartoon baboon says it is time
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM