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Akanksha Singh (she/her)

@akankshamsingh.bsky.social
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words: Al Jazeera, BBC, The Globe and Mail, Wired, more | commissioning editor: Lonely Planet

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/08/2026
Jane Austen was a fan of private book-lending stores. More than two centuries later, the model is still thriving in India where circulating libraries are helping feed a voracious reading habit.
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How One of the World’s Biggest Reading Nations Feeds Its Habit
Voracious readers in India are turning to a centuries-old private lending system as public libraries fall short.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"As readers, we’re wired for some kind of resolution. We’re wired to look for patterns, so I think we gently need to remind ourselves that these are not the only patterns." Akanksha Singh and Jonas Hassen Khemiri talk "The Sisters." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-story…
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"At its core, this biography is about a woman whose relationship with her South Asian identity gives her an impossible hunger—for fame, for acceptance, for love." @akankshamsingh.bsky.social reviews Mayukh Sen's biography of Merle Oberon, "Love, Queenie." lareviewofbooks.org/article/pass...
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Passing in Black-and-White | Los Angeles Review of Books
Akanksha Singh reviews Mayukh Sen’s “Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star.”
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Akanksha Singh (she/her) @akankshamsingh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"Some readers have said that they think of my novels as puzzles or games. I didn’t mean for them to be puzzles, exactly. I just invite my reader to color in the white space." - from my Q&A with Booker Prize-winning novelist, Jokha Alharthi on her book "Silken Gazelles” (translated by Marilyn Booth)
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Unspoken Spaces | Los Angeles Review of Books
Akanksha Singh interviews Jokha Alharthi about her latest novel, “Silken Gazelles.”
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Melissa Yeager @melissayeager.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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Akanksha Singh (she/her) @akankshamsingh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi 👋 I’m commissioning essays for #LonelyPlanet’s #Algeria guidebook and specifically looking for local and diaspora writers. If this is you or someone you know, can you please DM me? Thanks! #journorequest #writingjobs
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
THREAD: Weaponizing of Twitter in 2021 to spread denialism & manufacture consent for mass slaughter in Ethiopia, a mini case study. I bring up social media damage, both to urge @bsky.app to work on preventative mechanisms & to raise awareness of the horrors it has caused, far from western shores.
Al Jazeera story

Killings in Axum by Eritrea troops ‘may amount to war crimes’
Amnesty says in new report that hundreds of civilians were killed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopian town of Axum last November.
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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How a massacre in the sacred city of Aksum unfolded
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Ethiopia: Eritrean Forces Massacre Tigray Civilians
UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All PartiesFrance 24 

Eritrean troops killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty says
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Eritrean soldiers fighting across the border in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in a massacre last year in a likely crime against humanity, Amnesty International said Friday.
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Akanksha Singh (she/her) @akankshamsingh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I loved many things about this 2022 piece about product placement by Sophie Haigney, but the changing cursor image thingos did wondrous things for my child-like attention span: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Anatomy of a Product Placement (Published 2022)
As consumers skip ads and streaming content balloons, brands aim to be everywhere all at once.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 03/07/2024
Guess what guys! They found evidence for trade connections between India and Roman Egypt! A cemetery for pets! A statue of the Buddha!
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A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations
At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
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Akanksha Singh (she/her) @akankshamsingh.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
I’m still not sure how one’s meant to find “friends” (or friend adjacent people) on here, but if we don’t know each other — hi 👋 Now, the self-promotion: I have a column on JSTOR Daily where I write about jobs lost to technology and time. For this month’s, I researched log drivers:
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Water Logs - JSTOR Daily
Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.
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Akanksha Singh (she/her) @akankshamsingh.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
My first skeet! (I just learnt this is what we're calling them; not "clouds" as I'd previously imagined) Questions: 1) how are we finding people on here? 2) hashtags? 3) no DMs?
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