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Peter Griffin
@zigzackly.bsky.social
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Developing writer. Aspiring artist.

https://zigzackly.blogspot.com

Caretaker: @caferati.bsky.social, @poetryinparks.bsky.social, @thegoaproject.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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#YouRemember?
It's not video conferencing fatigue. It's a sense of impending zoom.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Eating out in Nariman Point.
Photograph of a menu card. A red arrow is drawn over the picture, pointing to the sixth item in the list. These are the items: veg. Grill S/W Veg Grill Masala Grill Samosa Grill Samosa Cheese Grill Vag. Cheese Grill Masala Cheese Grill Plain Cheese Grill Tomoto Garlic Cheese Cheese Chilly Panner Cheese Chilly (jain/non Jain.. Veg. Panner Cheese Grill Veg Panner Grill
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Dinner time.
A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum is looking away from camera. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street. A human’s foot, clad in white and wearing chappals, is in frame next to the cats. A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum now looks towards the right, behind camera. The human owner of the foot has, unasked, politely moved out of frame. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street. A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum looks up, to the right of frame, making enquiries of the shopkeeper, possibly about some refreshments for herself. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The way we were.

#HowMyGardenGrows; #Flarz.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Sunny afternoon.

#HowMyGardenGrows; #Flarz.
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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How revolutionary! A railway station with ample seating for those who might want to rest their feet while waiting for a train!
(Vadala Road.)
#BomSky
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Mirror, mirror, on the …

Never mind.

(Public toilet. #VashiWalkabout)
Above a washbasin, a plastic oval frame hangs from a tiled wall in the place a mirror would be hung. There is no mirror in the frame.
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Good advice from the Harbour Line. (Vadala Road.)
A photograph of a railway station platform. Above the heads of people waiting, and a local train which has just pulled in, we see the indicator, which says: 10 [the 3: before it is obscured by a pillar] GO SLOW. [GO is the station code for Goregaon.]
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Post-monsoon (?) afternoon.

#HowMyGardenGrows; #Flarz.
A cluster of plumbago against a backdrop of green leaves. A close-up of a red hibiscus against green leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Some years ago, I succumbed and temporarily set up one of those secret message things.
Got mostly spam, one confession of a crush (gratifying, but useless info), and this delight, which I saved.
Fathima is a comic genius and I would sign them up for a book contract.
am seeking help from you on a delicate matter I am the fourth wife of my husband and the youngest My father got me married to him to collect a hefty mahr from this minister of fisheries (even though its a subsaharan landlocked country we have no rivers) my husband commissioned a fleet of fishing boats & died while testing one of 'em (must have also been the 13 girls the boat carried as cargo) we are yet to recover the bodies Meanwhile the cash payment lies in his bank as well as the kickback I need to decide fast before the other wives wake up can you help me? Marrying me would be the best choice I guess you're already circumcised just say Yes YES PLEASE Fathima. Oyubdlele at gmail dot com
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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For your kind attention.

(Can’t remember where I saved this from.)
A sandwich board with the text: You can be a kind person with a good heart and still tell people to fuck off when needed.
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Oh, another one from my archives.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Zuckerborg.
A meld of the Borg Picard and Mark Z. Behind, the Borg cube. Below, the line ‘Resistance is futile.’
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

(Something I drew inspired by a little bedtime story @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social made up for @masalabai.bsky.social’s child a couple of years ago.)
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Best business book

A Fly on the RBI Wall, Alpana Killawala
Ratan Tata: A Life, Thomas Mathew

The Money Trap, Alok Sama

Long list included:

Sky High, Tarun Shukla
The Johnson and Johnson Files, Kaunain Sheriff M.
Will India Get Rich Before It Turns 100?, Prosenjit Datta
Cover of A Fly on the RBI Wall: An Insider’s View of the Central Bank, Alpana Killawala The cover shoes what could be the view through a camera with focus marks, a ‘rec’ indicator, a battery level indicator, and a timer at 00:00:00 Cover of Ratan Tata: A Life, by Thomas Mathew Image is a photograph of Ratan Tata in — probably — his 60s. Cover of The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble, by Alok Sama The image is a an illustration of an upside-down cityscape and a silhouette of a human figure falling
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Non-fiction, best first book

Rama Bhima Soma, Srikar Raghavan
The Lost Heer, Harleen Singh
The Lucky Ones, Zara Chowdhary

Long list included:

City as Memory, Sadaf Wani
India Ink, Poonam Agarwal
Soumitra Chatterjee and His World, Sanghamitra Chakraborty
Cover of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka, by Srikar Raghavan The image is an illustration of a boy in shorts and t-shirt poised to throw a ball. Other children are silhouetted in the near distance. Cover of The Lost Heer: Women in Colonial Punjab, Harleen Singh The image is of a woman in resplendent traditional outfit, glowing in what seems to be candle light. Cover of The Lucky Ones: A Memoir, Zara Chowdhary Image is a piece of pink fabric (?) with floral motifs in what may be a teapot shape.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Non-fiction, book of the year

Golwalkar, Dhirendra K Jha
The Identity Project, @rahulabhatia.bsky.social
The Undying Light, Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Long list included

Gods, Guns and Missionaries, Manu S. Pillai
Iconoclast, Anand Teltumbde
The Golden Road, William Dalrymple
Cover of Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine, by Dhirendra K Jha. Image has a large pennant in saffron superimposed on a sepia photograph of a bearded long-haired man, which is turn superimposed on photographs of rows of men wearing baggy shorts, white shirts, and black caps. Cover of The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy, by Rahul Bhatia. The image is a night scene, three men on three two-wheelers silhouetted against a road lit by headlights, tall grass rises around them, and above, a night sky. Cover of The Undying Light: A Personal History of Independent India, by Gopalkrishna Gandhi Image is a view of a girdered bridge across a river, with sunset (or sunrise) lighting everything golden. In the foreground many people are at the river’s banks, standing in the water, with one sari-clad woman climbing up towards the viewer, carrying a bucket.
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Fiction, best first book

Hot Water, Bhavika Govil
The Dead Know Nothing, Kishore Ram
The Fertile Earth, Ruthvika Rao

Long list included:

Missy, Raghav Rao
No Place to Call My Own, Alina Gufran
Stroke of Death, Shampa Roy
Cover of Hot Water, by Bhavika Goel The image is a pink inflatable life preserver in the sun-dappled water of a swimming pool. Cover of The dead know nothing, by Kishore Ram The image is a collage of paper, newspaper clippings, a coffee cup stain, a hand print, with a coconut tree rising behind. Cover of The fertile earth, by Ruthvika Rao. The image is an illustration, mostly the silhouette of a hill, with two trees on top of it, a moon rising on one side. Between the trees a brightly lit building with sloped roof and a turret, in front of which there is a railing in silhouette, with two human figures standing in front of it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Literature Live awards are out. Which have you read? Your pick for winner? 🧵t

Fiction, book of the year

Rising Sons, Kavery Nambisan

The Last Knot, Shabir Ahmad Mir

Island, Sujit Saraf

Long list included:

Mother India, Prayaag Akbar

The Comeback, Annie Zaidi

The Tiger’s Share, Keshava Guha
Cover of the book Island, by Sujit Saraf The image is an illustration of a small green island with a brown human figure running across it holding what may be a spear or poke. Cover of Rising Sons, by Kaveri Nambisam The cover is divided vertically into light and dark green halves, with a Balck squiggle running vertically separating them. Cover of The Last Knot, by Shabir Ahmad Mir The image is an illustration of what seems to be part of a palace in the foreground, with a person in blue robes standing on the roof. Behind, a carpet? Behind that, a landscape, surreal, brown earth, sky, three suns , clouds, stars.
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Whenever I eat lauki, I preface it with ‘forlorn’ and it’s all @parodevi.bsky.social’s fault.

(From economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politic..., a lockdown-times meditation, in which the Simple Recipes finds mention.)
Screenshot from text in the article linked to. The line captured reads: … which has grown from one person’s post into a 2,000+ group. People post pictures of wilted baingans and forlorn laukis and other people suggest what they should make. Gourmet-level types, cooking newbies and …
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It was the now defunct Afternoon D&C. This was 2016. Here is a picture the veteran journalist Ayaz Memon took at the time.
twitter.com/cricketwalla...
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This was an actual story that appeared in a Bombay newspaper.
Mumbai restrict Baroda to 286/9 Friday, October 14, 2016 NEW DELHI: Mumbai bowlers put up an impressive show as they restricted Baroda to 286 for 9 on the first day of a Randi Trophy group league encounter, here. Save wicketkeeper-batsman Final Shah, who hit a gutsy 66 off 125 balls (10x4), none of the Baroda batsmen showed enough patience to stay at the wicket despite some of them playing enough balls to get set. Veteran India discard Suffuse Nathan, who smashed his way to 41 off only 28 balls with eight fours didn't use discretion as he was cleaned up by medium pacer Tush Spandex. The situation demanded patience from the senior Nathan but he decided to attack and it was only partially successful. Similarly, opener Acidity Demode (39, 122 balls) and IPL star Deep Hood (46 off 88 balls) did all the handwork during the first two hours only to throw it away after getting set. The pitch at the Model Sports Complex in Palau has been a perennially sluggish one where stroke play is difficult. Left-arm spinner Veejay Shiloh (3/70 in 16 overs) was punished by Nathan but came back well to get three quick wickets in the end... India's Test specialist Shard Arthur got 2/77 bout bowled a lot of boundary balls during the 22 overs.
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM