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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I admire people who can make elegant unboxing videos but that is not how I operate. Author copies of The Pictures of Darpan Ray are here!

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat

Cover for Samit Basus new novel. A wolf-headed suit-clad man lounges on a couch. Bright red background

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Got to put all that judginess somewhere

Samit Basu, Manju Kapoor, Anuja Chauhan are this year's Crossword Award Fiction jury.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Delhi book event for Sanghamitra Chakraborty's magnificent Soumitra Chatterjee biography! Tickets here: rzp.io/rzp/soumitra...

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Surfacing just to post these three anthology covers together and feel really lucky.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sanghamitra Chakraborty's biography of Soumitra Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee and his World, is an absolutely marvelous glimpse into the many lives of a screen legend and the spaces, cultural, geographic and political, that shaped him. Highly recommend, available for preorder. Here's a trailer.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And speaking of paperbacks, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport paperbacks have arrived and will be available in December!

Three copies of the Jinn-bot of Shantiport paperback

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Chosen Spirits paperbacks out soon from Simon and Schuster India!

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Excellent raid-the-ousted-dictator's-mansion footage coming from Dhaka.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Found this! From my first Kolkata book event 20 years ago.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Many thanks to @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social for letting me know I was in the (inaugural?) Hindu Literary Crossword! This is it, can retire now

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

On Kindle, it's part of Amazon's Gold Box selection

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I feel like most of SFF will not be joining me for dinner tonight

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

If you write a book with a jinn in it you have to look at the top 3 under Most Wished For in all the category tabs

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

The Jinn-Bot is released! I had much fun with this one, and I really hope you will too. samitbasu.com/the-jinn-bot...

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Two weeks to go for Jinn-Bot! Tingmo celebrity endorsement secured

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

The hardcover is here and it looks so amazing! Many thanks to the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team who persevered through the labyrinthine process of sending anything to India

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

. @tordotcompub.bsky.social just gave me my favourite publisher post of the last 20 years

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Jinn-Bot is out in a few weeks! And so you can imagine my delight when I saw this segment from Ann Leckie's interview in the July Locus. I'm a huge admirer: Ancillary Justice is the book that brought me back to scifi as an adult, and I love all the others! So glad you enjoyed it @annleckie.com !

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Career contemplation in Animal Crossing

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

🐵🤖🤯♥️ "Ridiculously entertaining." - @KateElliottSFF on The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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