For Satyajit Ray's 103rd birth anniversary, I wrote about a topic that no editor has commissioned me to write (so I commissioned myself): the pathological absence of women in his marvellous, addictive young adult books

sohinichattopadhyay.com/2024/05/satyaj…

I am so moved by the generosity of the Irish poet, translator and essayist Gabriel Rosenstock, who has developed close ties of friendship and solidarity with fellow writers in South Asia over the last many years. Gabriel has just translated my Goa Arts & Literature Festival 2024…

Might we add that we are privileged to have signed copies of this wonderful book?

Six Essays ending our search to understand the ambiguous fate of being Gieve Patel, he being both a painter and a poet in cosmopolitan Bombay.... Ranjit Hoskote :-)

My new book on Gieve Patel's art, To Break and To Branch (Seagull, 2024), is now available in India, at bookstores as well as online: seagullbooks.org/to-break-and-t…

Please check with your local bookstore(s)!
Seagull Books سیگل Kitab Khana The Dogears Bookshop Trilogy by TEL Bahrisons Bookseller…

Paul Auster has passed into the ages. Over the last two years, I've been re-reading all his work - novels, poetry, memoirs, his correspondence with Coetzee. His City of Glass trilogy was one of the first books I reviewed, in 1988, at 19; I was instantly captivated. Thinking back…

'The impending invasion of Rafah by the Israeli military—the invasion likely to result in an untold number of deaths and, perhaps, a forced population transfer outside Gaza’s borders—is the context, in which these sham humanitarian gestures are to be examined.'

In the Orwellian…

Fiat lux!

Arrivederci, Georgetown! It was such a memorable experience to be here!

Georgetown Global Dialogues

It is shocking to learn that Edge Hill University, UK, is planning a large number of redundancies in its wonderful Creative Arts department. This is yet another attack on the creative and critical imagination, on the transformative possibilities of academia. Please consider…

Day Five of the #GUGlobalDialogues : “Fostering Global Solidarities.”

Joel S. Hellman Peter Beinart 斎藤幸平 Ranjit Hoskote Verónica Gago Lydia Polreen

Day Four of the #GUGlobalDialogues : “Countering Global Intellectual Inequality.” Follow along for the rest of the week’s events! RSVP to join us in-person or online buff.ly/3Q49TfR

Negar Azimi Ranjit Hoskote Kwame Anthony Appiah Nesrine Malik

Congratulations and thank you for your contribution to 'Contemporanea'! Learn more about the book on our website: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547628/…

I am delighted, and honoured, to be one of the contributors to Contemporanea, a superb and inventive lexicon for our turbulent historical moment, edited by the brilliant philosophers Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa, and published by the MIT Press. My entry addresses the…

Tomorrow, 2-5:30PM Copley Georgetown Global Dialogues Day Four: 'Revitalizing Democracy: The Faith Dimension' & 'Countering Global Intellectual Inequality' Ece Temelkuran Sohrab Ahmari
Charles King Ranjit Hoskote Nesrine Malik Kwame Anthony Appiah Negar Azimi

An inspiring panel on the importance of cosmopolitanism to affirm our global humanity above current national and civilizational divides, with Ranjit Hoskote, José Casanova, Katherine Marshall, Asma Shakeel. Keep following Georgetown Global Dialogues !

Day Two of the #GUGlobalDialogues : “Reviving Cosmopolitanism through a Cultural and Spiritual Turn.” Follow along for the rest of the week’s events! RSVP to join us in-person or online buff.ly/3Q49TfR

Ranjit Hoskote Katherine Marshall Georgetown Humanities Initiative

Monday’s the day! We are looking forward to an exciting lineup of panels and workshops to seek ways forward in a divided world. Here’s a sneak preview of our program and some exclusive #GUGlobalDialogues merch.

There’s still time to RSVP! buff.ly/3Q49TfR