Niyati Bhat
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Niyati Bhat
@niyatib.bsky.social
Writer. Translator (Kashmiri to English).
Charles Wallace India Trust Literary fellow 2024.
Rep: Writer's Side Literary Agency.
PhD Candidate: Cinema Studies, JNU (Exile & Refugees in South Asian Visual Culture).
https://niyatibhat.in/
19 January 2025 marks 35 years since the Kashmiri Pandit Exodus from the valley in 1990.

Here's my lecture "my memory is getting in the way of your history" derived from my book on Kashmiri Pandit women and the exile.

youtu.be/c1M2h_X2jVU?...

#kashmiripandits #kashmiripanditexodus
'My Memory is Getting in the Way of Your History' - a lecture by Niyati Bhat
YouTube video by Literature Across Frontiers
youtu.be
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Han Kang’s Nobel Prize speech next week is going to be VERY interesting
December 3, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Writing is like doing exploratory surgery on yourself. You take out all of your internal organs and put them on the table and hope you can put them back in the right order and that you make it out alive somehow.
November 26, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Why though 😭
In order to write a book, you have to write a book.
November 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The Camus quote reminded me of the Aberystwyth seaside in Wales, UK. I wrote many poems this year on the beaches of Aber (ngl, they were mostly about seagulls.)
November 24, 2024 at 9:28 AM
I am just a galley girl, looking for my bookish-cinema community.
Here's Haruki Murakami's new novel!✨
November 20, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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I feel like I’m starting at a new school here
November 19, 2024 at 4:40 AM