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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

I barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work. shinjinidey.wordpress.com

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Shinjini Dey

critic, essayist, and a writer of tales

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

I wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it!

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Denise Levertov

Zeroing In
"I am a landscape,' he said,
a landscape and a person walking in that landscape.
There are daunting cliffs there, and plains glad in their way of brown monotony. But especially there are sinkholes, places
of sudden terror, of small circumference and malevolent depths?'
'I know,' she said. 'When I set forth to walk in myself, as it might be on a fine afternoon, forgetting, sooner or later I come to where sedge and clumps of white flowers, rue perhaps, mark the bogland, and I know
there are quagmires there that can pull you down, and sink you in bubbling mud.'
"We had an old dog,' he told her, 'when I was a boy, a good dog, friendly. But there was an injured spot on his head, if you happened just to touch it he'd jump up yelping and bite you. He bit a young child,
they had to take him down to the vet's and destroy him?'
"No one knows where it is,' she said,
'and even by accident no one touches it.
It's inside my landscape, and only I, making my way preoccupied through my life,

•or flinch back just in time.'
"Yes, we learn that.
It's not terror, it's pain we're talking about: those places in us, like your dog's bruised head, that are bruised forever, that time never assuages, never.'

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I wrote about Olga Ravn's incredible My Work for On The Seawall's Nov/Dec issue—motherhood as practice, occupation, and a nationalized spectator sport. ronslate.com/on-my-work-a-n…

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/10/2023

Al Jazeera is still broadcasting from Gaza! They have access to digital satellites so please follow if you can. Tareq Abu Azzoum was just reporting live from Khan Younis.

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🔴 Al Jazeera English | Live

Stay Informed: Watch Al Jazeera English Live: @Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that o...

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Islamic University of Gaza (which has 25,000 students) has been totally destroyed. BDS NOW!!

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

As an editor: editors only really edit your work if they're going out of their way, taking time outside work, delaying, etc. to do it. They don't do it on the (big 5) company dime.

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Can't believe I wrote this (almost three years ago) about Kolkata and its Bangalis—and here I am now, gallivanting around (the nationalistic) CR Park as if I can't identify the stench of a festering wound.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

knitting circles should allow non-knitters to join if we’re good at gossip

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

What's a good Gillian Rose and Jacqueline Rose intellectual-biography-ish piece?

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

I'm quite weary of the supplication required to prove my worth, and worn out by the constant desperation present in my performance of competence.

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

When will the "you're so good with words" or "how can you like literature so much" stop being a opening address? How to repel these pandering assholes?

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

On top of the sicko fiction in the new issue, we've got some baller non-fic too. Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Forgot to share the news here, but I also reviewed @indrapramitdas.bsky.social THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR for @seizethepress.bsky.social last week and wrote about myths, the city, and the suggestions and persuasions of his fiction. www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...

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Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

I have a review/essay on Yuri Herrera in @strangehorizons.bsky.social newest issue, meandering through surrealism, translation, Latin American fiction, and Herrera's own claims about writing TEN PLANETS alongside his non-fic debut, A SILENT FURY. strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...