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Tejas 🦚

@ytejas.bsky.social
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✨ 📚 ☕ ✍🏾 🌈 MSc(Oxford), PhD(Cornell), Postdoc(Curie Institute). Mol Bio, Psych, Writer. Interested in lit, history, mental health, 🌏 & social justice. 🗣️ EN,FR, ES, Hindi. 🔗 writejas.wordpress.com 📍France

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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A mordant but fair critique of the much celebrated "Great Mughals" exhibition at the V&A museum in London. @empirepoduk.bsky.social fans and @willdalrymple.bsky.social , @anitaanand.bsky.social , what do you think? scroll.in/article/1081...
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‘Great Mughals’ show in London reinforces colonial perspectives that museums claim to be questioning
The Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition highlights opulence isolated from the complex political, intellectual and religious histories that underpin it.
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So excited to even make it to the shortlist of the Writers retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices 2025 @lambdaliterary.org ! Merci 😊
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The story of our favourite drink. ☕ open.substack.com/pub/ytejas/p...
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Food & Feelings, what's the real connection? ytejas.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...
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So you think you’re in control? Your gut disagrees.
A party of tiny bacteria living in our intestines are controlling us. And they don’t even pay rent!
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thrilled to say I've just received news that my fiction piece will be included in the third anthology "Queer Life, Queer Love" . Thanks Kate,Sarah, Karen, Matt & everyone else @muswellpress.bsky.social ! Absolutely honoured 😁
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Inspired by some of my favourite writers and my passion for food, words, science, language and history I'm starting my own publication on Substack. Please feel free to like, comment, subscribe and share : open.substack.com/pub/ytejas/p...
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Edible Stories
Welcome to "The Hungry Mind" : a space where food, history, language, science, travel & life’s absurdities collide with love & curiosity.
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Saw a French play tonight :"Passeport" is about refugees & asylum seekers. Largely bourgeois White audience laughed along as this parody appropriated real suffering for a risible, theatrical travesty, all for the consumption "progressive" Parisians. Voyeuristic mockery ≠ entertainment. #Deplorable
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Is it just me or does @stephenfry.bsky.social need to be cast in a biopic of the irascible @slavojiek.bsky.social ?
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Ah @willdalrymple.bsky.social, I didn't know you've been chatting about your latest book "The Golden Road"and ancient India with our own funnyman, Cyrus Broacha! Looking forward to this. youtu.be/_oEj1VwAJxY?...
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William Dalrymple: How Ancient India Shaped the World - Trade, Buddhism & Mathematical Legacy
YouTube video by Cyrus Says
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A mob threw tea into Boston Harbour today in 1773 protesting a corrupt executive determined to impose tarrifs on trade to suit the needs of a powerful corporation.
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Learning the art of brilliant creative nonfiction through this intimate, lyrical, wild and sublime essay from 2021 by @melissafebos.bsky.social. @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/wild...
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Melissa Febos: "The Wild, Sublime Body"
An essay by Melissa Febos: "Intimacy, I’ve found, has little to do with romance."
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Throwing this into the lot, @anitaanand.bsky.social . My favourite Birbal story growing up ! More on @empirepoduk.bsky.social this week. www.birbalgroup.com/birbalkhichadi @willdalrymple.bsky.social
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Birbal’s Khichadi | Birbal Group
Hope can inspire people to work hard.
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Discovering Borges, belatedly, in Spanish. Masterful. Why didn't I read this sooner?
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Wept, smiled, danced in my seat, and soaked in every bit of happiness, hurt and hope in this beautiful #movie. Please go watch it. #CrossingIstanbul
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
@bsky.app Any plans on truncating the usernames / providing shorter aliases? ".bsky.social" end tags use up quite a few characters!
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The mainstream French mania over Notre Dame continues... If only they cared half as much about people dying in wars, right?!
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is my very much NOT surprised face. Still furious though. Do. Better. Publishing. www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...
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Publishers Association report reveals 'disappointing drop' in ethnic minority representation within industry
A report by the Publishers Association (PA) has revealed that "ethnic minority" representation fell by 2% in 2024, with a decline in the numbers of Asian and British Asian staff.
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Another year of great podcasts. Thanks @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social !
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What are you reading? #books
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Glad to be on here and hopefully reunite with new and old friends and build a community with shared values, away from "ex"-apps !
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Tejas 🦚 @ytejas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What a brilliant first episode! For the Babur nerds, here's a parallel perspective from the extraordinary @amitav.bsky.social : amitavghosh.com/other-works-.... And here's @willdalrymple.bsky.social's introduction to the Beveridge translation: openthemagazine.com/lounge/books....
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The man behind the mosque – Amitav Ghosh
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