Suroor Alikhan
@suroora.bsky.social
Book blogger, book addict, amateur photographer, lover of music, stories and language, and incorrigible dreamer. Blog at talking-about-books.com. Also write reviews of travel books by women for Women on the Road.
Tuesday 25 November, 6:30 PM IST, Hyderabad, India: Indigenous Australian author Julie Janson will be in conversation with Sowmya Dechamma at a Hyderabad Literary Festival event.
Link to RSVP to the session: surl.li/vkhnqp
#authorinterview #literaryevent #literaryfestival
Link to RSVP to the session: surl.li/vkhnqp
#authorinterview #literaryevent #literaryfestival
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Tuesday 25 November, 6:30 PM IST, Hyderabad, India: Indigenous Australian author Julie Janson will be in conversation with Sowmya Dechamma at a Hyderabad Literary Festival event.
Link to RSVP to the session: surl.li/vkhnqp
#authorinterview #literaryevent #literaryfestival
Link to RSVP to the session: surl.li/vkhnqp
#authorinterview #literaryevent #literaryfestival
Three new posts on Women's Travel Books! On #Italy, #UnitedStates and #Pakistan.
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
#travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
#travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Three new posts on Women's Travel Books! On #Italy, #UnitedStates and #Pakistan.
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
#travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
#travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
Save the dates! The Hyderabad Literary Festival 2026 is 24-26 Jan., Hyderabad, India. HLF is a multi-genre, multidiscipline, and multilingual event with nearly 300 writers, artistes, academics, scholars, and publishers from India and abroad each year. #literaryfestival
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Save the dates! The Hyderabad Literary Festival 2026 is 24-26 Jan., Hyderabad, India. HLF is a multi-genre, multidiscipline, and multilingual event with nearly 300 writers, artistes, academics, scholars, and publishers from India and abroad each year. #literaryfestival
Do your bit to make the Hyderabad Literary Festival happen!
Payment details here: forms.gle/jc3UyfApbRhz...
HLF is gearing up to bring you an exciting array of speakers, artists and performers in January 2026. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!
More info on www.hydlitfest.org.
#literaryfestival
Payment details here: forms.gle/jc3UyfApbRhz...
HLF is gearing up to bring you an exciting array of speakers, artists and performers in January 2026. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!
More info on www.hydlitfest.org.
#literaryfestival
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Do your bit to make the Hyderabad Literary Festival happen!
Payment details here: forms.gle/jc3UyfApbRhz...
HLF is gearing up to bring you an exciting array of speakers, artists and performers in January 2026. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!
More info on www.hydlitfest.org.
#literaryfestival
Payment details here: forms.gle/jc3UyfApbRhz...
HLF is gearing up to bring you an exciting array of speakers, artists and performers in January 2026. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!
More info on www.hydlitfest.org.
#literaryfestival
3 new posts on talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review!
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
3 new posts on talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review!
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org
New reviews on Women’s Travel Books! Sally Howard on sexual mores in India; Alba Kunadu Sumprim’s on moving to her native Ghana; and Diccon Bewes on retracing Jemimah Morrell’s journey on the 1863 Thomas Cook tour of Switzerland. @salvolatile.bsky.social
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New reviews on Women’s Travel Books! Sally Howard on sexual mores in India; Alba Kunadu Sumprim’s on moving to her native Ghana; and Diccon Bewes on retracing Jemimah Morrell’s journey on the 1863 Thomas Cook tour of Switzerland. @salvolatile.bsky.social
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
Happy Diwali from the Hyderabad Literary Festival!
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happy Diwali from the Hyderabad Literary Festival!
Three new reviews on Women's Travel Books this week! Take trains around the US with Jenny Diski, follow the olive route with Carol Drinkwater, and travel to Papua New Guinea with Kira Salak. @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
October 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Three new reviews on Women's Travel Books this week! Take trains around the US with Jenny Diski, follow the olive route with Carol Drinkwater, and travel to Papua New Guinea with Kira Salak. @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review
These are just four of the books reviewed on Women's Travel Books, the new section of my blog that highlights #travelbooks by women. Check it out! I'm adding more all the time.
@monisharajesh.bsky.social @noosarowiwa.bsky.social #travelbooksbywomen #books #bookreviews
@monisharajesh.bsky.social @noosarowiwa.bsky.social #travelbooksbywomen #books #bookreviews
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
These are just four of the books reviewed on Women's Travel Books, the new section of my blog that highlights #travelbooks by women. Check it out! I'm adding more all the time.
@monisharajesh.bsky.social @noosarowiwa.bsky.social #travelbooksbywomen #books #bookreviews
@monisharajesh.bsky.social @noosarowiwa.bsky.social #travelbooksbywomen #books #bookreviews
For the last day of #WomeninTranslationMonth, here are a series of recommended books: from India, Africa and Latin America.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
For the last day of #WomeninTranslationMonth, here are a series of recommended books: from India, Africa and Latin America.
Photos for #WorldPhotographyDay. The big freeze in February 2012 along Lake Geneva; my Ayahma; and the Chowmahallah Palace in Hyderabad.
August 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Photos for #WorldPhotographyDay. The big freeze in February 2012 along Lake Geneva; my Ayahma; and the Chowmahallah Palace in Hyderabad.
Friday, 8 Aug., 7:30 pm IST / 16:00 CET: HLF Online session on poetry by South Asian women with Lopamudra Basu, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Stout, and Feroza Jussawalla, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, in conversation with Usha Raman.
Watch at youtube.com/c/HLF-India
Watch at youtube.com/c/HLF-India
July 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Friday, 8 Aug., 7:30 pm IST / 16:00 CET: HLF Online session on poetry by South Asian women with Lopamudra Basu, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Stout, and Feroza Jussawalla, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, in conversation with Usha Raman.
Watch at youtube.com/c/HLF-India
Watch at youtube.com/c/HLF-India
The Hyderabad Literary Festival is holding an in-person session on Sat. 14 June with Daneesh Majid on his book The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day, in which he uses oral histories, interviews and his personal experiences to craft a modern history of #Hyderabad. @harpercollins.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The Hyderabad Literary Festival is holding an in-person session on Sat. 14 June with Daneesh Majid on his book The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day, in which he uses oral histories, interviews and his personal experiences to craft a modern history of #Hyderabad. @harpercollins.bsky.social
When people think of Goa (India), they think of beaches. But there is a lot more to Goa. The first two pictures are of a church built in 1676, and a street in Panjim, the capital, on a quiet Saturday afternoon. The red building—if I remember correctly—houses a potter's shop.
#travel #goa #churches
#travel #goa #churches
May 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I was in India last month, and it was only when I unpacked that I realized just how many #books I brought back! To be fair, about a third were gifts. Oh, and Karla's Choice, which is on my bedside table and missed the photo shoot.
May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I was in India last month, and it was only when I unpacked that I realized just how many #books I brought back! To be fair, about a third were gifts. Oh, and Karla's Choice, which is on my bedside table and missed the photo shoot.
My April #bookreview for Women on the Road is Nina Mingya Powles's Tiny Moons, a food memoir about what she ate during a year in #Shanghai, woven through with memories of cooking with her mother and grandmother. @theemmapress.bsky.social #travel #food
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My April #bookreview for Women on the Road is Nina Mingya Powles's Tiny Moons, a food memoir about what she ate during a year in #Shanghai, woven through with memories of cooking with her mother and grandmother. @theemmapress.bsky.social #travel #food
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
Spring is here, and so are the tulips! And my anthurium has finally flowered.
#flowers #springflowers
#flowers #springflowers
March 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Spring is here, and so are the tulips! And my anthurium has finally flowered.
#flowers #springflowers
#flowers #springflowers
My March #bookreview for Women on the Road is South to America by @imaniperry.bsky.social. Perry writes that the key to understanding the US is to understand the American South, its history and legacy. Well worth reading. @harpercollins.bsky.social
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
March 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My March #bookreview for Women on the Road is South to America by @imaniperry.bsky.social. Perry writes that the key to understanding the US is to understand the American South, its history and legacy. Well worth reading. @harpercollins.bsky.social
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
For #InternationalWomensDay, here are some books by intrepid women travellers. I would recommend every one of these.
Could have made a bigger pile... There is so much good #travelwriting by women.
Reviews on women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
#travelbooks #books
Could have made a bigger pile... There is so much good #travelwriting by women.
Reviews on women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
#travelbooks #books
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
For #InternationalWomensDay, here are some books by intrepid women travellers. I would recommend every one of these.
Could have made a bigger pile... There is so much good #travelwriting by women.
Reviews on women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
#travelbooks #books
Could have made a bigger pile... There is so much good #travelwriting by women.
Reviews on women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
#travelbooks #books
Happy Women's Day! 🌹🌹🌹
A reminder of all the things women were not allowed to do once... Still a work in progress, but we have come far.
#internationalwomensday (Image by appaIoosa)
A reminder of all the things women were not allowed to do once... Still a work in progress, but we have come far.
#internationalwomensday (Image by appaIoosa)
March 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy Women's Day! 🌹🌹🌹
A reminder of all the things women were not allowed to do once... Still a work in progress, but we have come far.
#internationalwomensday (Image by appaIoosa)
A reminder of all the things women were not allowed to do once... Still a work in progress, but we have come far.
#internationalwomensday (Image by appaIoosa)
I made a book sentence fir #WorldBookDay about a lost boy. Wishing everyone a year of great books!
March 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I made a book sentence fir #WorldBookDay about a lost boy. Wishing everyone a year of great books!
My new #bookreview for Women on the Road is the #autobiography of Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan woman MP and ex-Deputy Speaker of the Afghan parliament. It is a portrait of a brave woman and also of #Afghanistan, and an inspirational story, especially now.
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
February 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My new #bookreview for Women on the Road is the #autobiography of Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan woman MP and ex-Deputy Speaker of the Afghan parliament. It is a portrait of a brave woman and also of #Afghanistan, and an inspirational story, especially now.
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...
www.women-on-the-road.com/travel-book-...