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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This looks amazing Samanth, what an amazing rabbit hole to fall into.

Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I loved this book! It was so unabashedly fun. I think making a raccoon a hard-bitten PI is a stroke of genius (and fuck the greys and the reds).

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Where would you put shifting agriculturists, especially those dependent on forest clearing, or even forest dependent agriculture. Would they be in your framing an intersection of farmers and gatherers?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

His other stuff is also amazing: Fire Weather and the Tiger especially!

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I had never thought of this before, how does Merlin handle clearly non-native species? In India, especially in the forests of Western Ghats with which I am familiar, there is no large number of introduced birds, or in our cities, but that will come up very soon I think.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Can we take this argument in reverse for Slow Horses. In the books, even the folks running the intelligence apparatus are egoistic to the 11, and their fuckups are catastrophic, but the world at large works. Maybe we need to get rid of the whole intelligence as important (and stick to policing?)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Raman's out of print book (Wild Heart of India) is back in print btw, but with Westland now. I'm overjoyed it's back in print. (Also will get hold of the new book, it looks gorgeous.)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Congratulations! The first edition was truly published at a serendipitous time, and this new edition seems to be published at the right time too. Will get myself a copy (even if it doesn't contain that Dawkins blurb).

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Whoa! These species must have been separated by a few million years at least. Wild that they could interbreed (after typing this, I realised there might even be a greater distance from donkeys and horses, and err, nothing stops them)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wow, all of these look amazing! Especially looking forward to the Lamarck book.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This looks amazing! Congratulations. When is the book coming out?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yeah, converting to rupees, it is too expensive. But even then, given its extraordinarily long lifespan, if maintained well, I wonder if it will still work out. And yep, the Linux install has never been an issue for me, it has always been equivalent programs.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Thanks for this Dr. Naish! I remember reading that amazing article about the Plains zebra when it came out, and had missed this. Hope to see the Mountain zebra article some day (unless I have missed it, couldn't find that one).

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I will not in the near future contemplate a complete switch to Linux, but the new Framework looks really tempting. Did you see it? I think they are even advertising it as a Linux first machine, with optimised hardware for the OS!

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Amazing! Really no idea how Ball does what he does, but looking forward to this book.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Oh no, but have fun. Will pick up a copy soon and read.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hi Maithreyi, are you doing book signings in Church Street in BLR? Would love to meet, and get a copy signed too.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Please tell me you also use a fountain pen for the manuscript :)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thanks for this! I had heard of both the Black and McPhee (Black's book has been sitting on my TBR for ages). But Poppick is a new one for me.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Err, I might have got the only copy. But I'm sure Krishna from Bookworm will get you one too.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Can't wait to read whatever it is, and congratulations! Happy holidays indeed.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Great review! I saw this tome in the local Bookworm, and despite its gargantuan heft, I simply had to have it. Don't know when I'll be even able to finish 30% of it.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

These exist, and are called Special Economic Zones in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. And unfortunately, our elites and some sections of the media love them.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Or the fellows like Aakar who used to tweet out links where folks could pirate his books, and there would always be chaps in the comments telling, 'thank you, now I'll go buy this book' :)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Lol, point taken (I hope to publish at least at some point in my life).

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I had one Indian prof, from India, who was serious and unapologetic about using diacritics when his name appeared as an author of an academic paper (so his last name only). I've actually met people later who thought he was French (still pronounced his name wrongly).

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

These are the same patterns that happened in India too, back more than 10 years ago. A substantial rightward shift among people who "consumed" media on YouTube or Twitter (overwhelmingly young people). And it's still happening, the crazies are getting crazier, because it sells.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Wait wait wait, they colonised almost all of SE Asia to not even learn this!

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I'm afraid then my TL will be like 4 folks :( Really hoping for a mass exodus here still though.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is a great analogy! Going to keep using it from now on.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Amazing! Since this is published by Bloomsbury, we in India will get it soon too I hope! Can't wait to get my hands on it.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Yes, it goes down as one of the best books I've ever read. Can't believe somebody can write like that, and weave such a narrative.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Yes, this has been on my tbr too! Thanks for the recco.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This was such a great review, thank you for sharing it!

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Is this going to be screened or recorded by any chance?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This looks like straight up greenwashing no? Allow these countries to show they're doing "meaningful work" to combat emissions, a very crude case of numbers go up, so doing good.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My god, I thought they had kicked him out already. What more should it take?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

These articles look fascinating, thank you for sharing them.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

And unless the Democrat leadership realises they have to accommodate the working class in some way, it really does look terrible for them. Clearly Mamdani and the Leftward turn of some section of the Party is perhaps a harbinger of that.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I am right now reading Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank, written before the 2016 election, and it is the history of the Democrat Party leadership's turn towards Neoliberalism in the Clinton years. Makes for fascinating reading even now...

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

And Spinney walks us through with real skill, and dare I say, a wonderful sense of humanity and wonder. Really, all the tricky topics of the science and the history behind the genetics, linguistics, archaeology, and politics is handled with deftness. I was wowed.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

@tnavinash.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social Hi folks, restarting this tradition. If you folks haven't put Proto, by Laura Spinney in your reading lists yet, you should do so immediately. I found it a masterful synthesis of a fascinating topic, on Proto Indo European.

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is so cool! Also, thank you for illustrating an underappreciated species. Do you know if people are studying jackal wolf, or jackal pet dog, or even jackal fox dynamics in any of these places?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Also, will whole heartedly recommend this book of you haven't heard of it already en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27...

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Will whole-heartedly campaign for you and your party if the television channels you have in mind are ones that employ shouty "news" anchors, and a soap star turned MP turned cabinet minister who somehow can find the time to still become a soap star!

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I think they filled their quota with famous beer :)

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Don't tell me the misattributed quote is LLM hallucinated, or a genuine misattribution?

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Maitrey @maitrey.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Pinker of course. Guess what, give all of these authors the adoration of idiots, and looks like they all weirdly convergently evolve into idiots too!

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