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Salil Tripathi

@saliltripathi.bsky.social
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Writer of books / drinker of coffee / hater of cilantro / Senior advisor - @ihrb.bsky.social / Senior associate - @cisl.cam.ac.uk / Contributing editor - @indexoncensorship.org, Singapore Unbound / Board member - PENinternational.bsky.social

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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile, this has happened: coming in October at a bookshop near you.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great to get my own copy of this 1,262 page Oxford Handbook on the UN Human Rights System, edited by my friend Jared Genser and the former OHCHR Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein. I have written a chapter on business and human rights with Chris Fletcher.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Coming soon, at a bookshop near you, my Gujarati poems: સરહદ અને ઈતર કાવ્યો -- ક્ષિતિજ સંશોધન પ્રકાશન કેન્દ્ર
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Treasured moments with #ngugiwathiongo in Norway, 2017. PEN meetings.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@cherian.bsky.social is in town, and we had fun dissecting Peruvian food, and the politics of India, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and America.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Nice to be reunited with my other kids after an apartment move and unpacked boxes.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Friday, in Vadodara -- speaking about #TheGujaratis!
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tomorrow, at the Read a Kitab festival in Bandra:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today, at Bhavans (Chaupatty). Conversation with Prabodh Parikh about #TheGujaratis.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
6 Feb, at Kitab Khana. I will speak about #TheGujaratis with Aparna Kapadia. Do come.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
11 Feb, at the IIC, I will be speaking about #TheGujaratis with Neha Dixit:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Wednesday. At Ashoka University.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Meet me in Pune on 26 January; I'll be speaking with Prabodh Parikh and Riyaz Latif about #TheGujaratis.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Join me at the Asiatic Society on 15 Jan, where I will be speaking with Sharon Irani about #TheGujaratis.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I spoke about #TheGujaratis to Ahmedabad Mirror:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
So good to see #TheGujaratis displayed prominently at the Crossword store near the apartment where I grew up!
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Meanwhile this happened: beehive.news/top-news-wri...
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Progress in India takes many forms, and often pleasant, righting a historic wrong.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sunday in Bangalore.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Saturday in Bangalore.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
And here's what Christophe Jaffrelot, of Science Po (Paris) thinks of #TheGujaratis:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Here's what Amrita Shodhan of SOAS University has to say about #TheGujaratis:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
As "The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community" begins to appear on shop-fronts in India, here's what Rachel Dwyer, professor emeritus at SOAS University (who taught Gujarati, besides other subjects) said, after she read the book :-)
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
As "The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community" begins to appear in bookstores, here's what Shashi Tharoor said after reading the book:
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
With five days left before D-Day (the day The Gujaratis gets launched in India), allow me to post the full blurbs by those who have read it, one per day.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Soon in bookshops.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Uma. Durga. RIP.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Remembering Bhopal at 40. In Geneva. At the UN forum. Nov 26. Do join us. (Registration needed).
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Great to meet a real hero!
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
When Karuna and I got married in 1988, I had read out this poem of Tagore, which Radice had translated. In 2006, at Karuna's funeral, I read it out again, as my farewell.
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