Bimbo Baggins

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shit poster, car hater
interested in climate change, labour and all things urban!
a mix of personal rants and professional chit-chat
pro-Palestine, anti-TERF

work if you are interested: https://www.madhushreek.com/
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interests: [#polecology](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/polecology ) [#humanecology](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/humanecology ) [#urbanism](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/urbanism ), [#art](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/art ), [#research](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/research )

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2026-03-12 19:32:01 UTC

decided to limit social media engagement and instead do 1 long form article + headlines skim per day, 2 books per month + coursework

2026-03-12 19:05:52 UTC

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69874/1/divest-instagram-politics-iran-cuba-venezuela-war-social-media
Good article but idk what the solution is. We couldn’t even get people to ditch corporate media

2026-02-28 10:54:58 UTC

Urgent! Any lawyers here? My friend is being extorted her bank and needs help. She is in a village UP. Her family is not formally educated and the took a loan and are accruing fines and defaulting. I will be fundraising for the repayment but the problem is the bank is not giving her original loan documents or agreements, are asking her to pay random “fines” without receipts and made her father sign a blank form. Need someone to help her get the og documents back so we can figure this out.
India is so anti-poor, i swear to fucking God.
cc: @npub1lzp…s633 [@h_tejas](https://newsie.social/@h_tejas ) @npub1rad…9rls please boost
#MastIndia

2026-02-26 08:13:34 UTC

This is on another level. I can't even:
https://doi-org.ludwig.lub.lu.se/10.1093/ije/dyv029
Conclusions: We report strong evidence of familial clustering of sexual offending, primarily accounted for by genes rather than shared environmental influences. Future research should possibly test the effectiveness of selective prevention efforts for male first-degree relatives of sexually aggressive individuals, and consider familial risk in sexual violence risk assessment.

2026-02-25 08:36:45 UTC

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which one da?

2026-02-21 10:11:48 UTC

adults will now need their parents' approval legally to get married in Gujarat. What the actual fuck. If this passes, so many interfaith and intercaste couples will be impacted.

2026-02-20 09:10:38 UTC

Friends, especially friends in academia who have to read a lot and constantly, how do you make time and space to properly engage in news and long-form journalism? I have managed to establish somewhat of a consistent morning routine. However I am unable to integrate reading the news or just essays.
One problem I run into, i suppose, is that I take time for reading assigned texts. It takes a lot of energy for me to read, make notes and digest them in a way that I can apply them for my assignments. And by the time I am done with my homework I have no energy to spare for any other form of comprehension.
But I still want to carve out some energy and bandwidth for non-academic reading.
cc: [@h_tejas](https://newsie.social/@h_tejas ) @npub1lzp…s633

2026-02-19 17:34:20 UTC

New blog post alert! Would appreciate feedback. Does this even make sense? Or is it like too obvious and why the hell did I write an essay about something so obvious
https://madhushreek.com/blog/posts/mind-temporality/

2026-02-17 09:11:48 UTC

I never got into the Beatles and I refuse to do so even now. I don't know why. Just don't feel like it. I like some of their songs, and I liked the Yellow Submarine movie.

2026-02-14 07:06:28 UTC

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work but I celebrated an early V day with a movie and dumplings

2026-02-08 17:24:33 UTC

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Went to r/communism to understand more. Man, theory is insufferable. Reading these debates makes my head spin and want to not do academia.
How much of theory is theory to do understand and consequently shape the world, and how much of it is just for people who love to think a lot.
Does this make me an anti-intellectual?

2026-02-08 17:17:12 UTC

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'If Althusser was the logical end-point of Marxism, Thompson once wrote, then he would rather be a Christian than a Marxist' lmaoooo

2026-02-08 17:12:44 UTC

so althusser and thompson were beefing. tbh i don't understand the beef or its contents.

2026-02-07 06:36:51 UTC

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man that must suck. Zhoptana kiti traas hot asel

2026-02-02 09:09:53 UTC

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I made this list long back called “portraits of India” with films that capture essence of cities culturally and geographically. https://boxd.it/jjHeg
Will add some of those you mentioned in the list

2026-01-30 07:25:33 UTC

RE: https://mastinsaan.in/@madhu_shrieks/115979983838371932
Have shortened my pomodoros to 20 minutes. How tf do people do this? ADHD is killing me. It’s not that I am not interested in what I am reading, but it takes so much effort to sit still.
I am reading White Skin, Black Fuel for class. It’s a great book but section one is just facts page after page. Section two is theory, and apparently better. I think social scientists need to structure their books better, especially if these books are intended as calls to action.
#note1v0h…yfl6

2026-01-30 07:20:59 UTC

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naav?

2026-01-29 19:15:08 UTC

i deleted whatsapp & signal so that my brain doesn't get distracted on my laptop.

2026-01-29 19:09:29 UTC

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How unprofesh/desperate do I sound? I should not be sending emails when intoxicated
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/115/979/977/606/885/661/original/f13c665486de34c3.png

2026-01-29 19:07:44 UTC

double texted my professor. Oops--

2026-01-24 14:54:27 UTC

I do this thing where I handwrite my grocery list and always forget it at home when I go shopping

2026-01-19 08:12:26 UTC

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🤣 i didn’t know it mattered

2026-01-10 09:29:47 UTC

1. ⁠What is colonialism?
2. ⁠How has colonialism been different under different ways of organising production, and what is the character of colonialism under capitalism?
3. ⁠How are imperialism and colonialism different?

2026-01-06 07:22:29 UTC

#MastIndia VOTE!

2026-01-05 13:00:51 UTC

so many nudes on wikimedia images. omg. that too in public domain! who are these people? have they consented to their butt being available to the world like this?

2026-01-04 08:29:06 UTC

Faye D’Souza try not to be a complete idiot challenge
(She is posting Amreekkkan propaganda re:Venezuela)

2025-12-19 10:09:33 UTC

I got locked out of my apartment yet again. I have 1 hour to get a spare key from the reception, open my door and return it. 4 bus rides. Asking them to come over and open the door would cost 600 sek
Edit: After acquiring my spare keys from the reception, i found my keys buried deep in my bag.

2025-12-16 11:31:16 UTC

José Antonio Kast won in Chile.

2025-12-15 17:26:32 UTC

Ilan Pappé answered my question!!!! I am not convinced by his answer tho 😅

2025-12-08 15:23:57 UTC

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Is it obvious that I am an inefficient highlighter of text 😅
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/115/684/631/979/110/550/original/e453b73154dff48c.png

2025-12-08 15:17:27 UTC

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I am slowly but surely getting drawn to world systems theory, development-underdevelopment etc and cannot wait to read Gunder Frank, Walter Rodney, etc.

2025-12-08 15:17:02 UTC

This book I am currently reading: The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu, is poorly edited but so insightful.
I am just on the first chapter, and it is a little jargon-heavy, but what I understand from it so far is that queer theory as it has developed has not been able to incorporate materialist analyses. Not only that but it also has in many ways treated non-cishet communities in the Global South as less developed versions of non-cishet people in the Global North, US to be precise. In its effort to not apply a colonial universalism to queer and trans populations of the third world, it has inadvertently excluded them while positioning certain groups as "authentic local subjects" or as "modernized or inauthentic"
In the next chapters he will be exploring the underdevelopment of the Global South and the rise of China in the world order and it's impact on the queer trans communities in CHina (i think?) super excited!

2025-12-08 14:10:59 UTC

I have been very knee-jerk opposed to the decolonial discourse because of how fash it is in India and honestly doesn't make sense in my context at times. But through constant interaction with my classmates and certain profs, I am starting to understand it's value. I still feel it is theoretically weak if it can be co-opted so easily by fascists but hopefully with constant, good-faith engagement it becomes less so.
Today a guest lecturer explained colonialism in class as a way that reorganised people in the world, and that neocolonialism and other exploitations build off of this reorganisation, and everything suddenly clicked and fell into place in my brain. She was brilliant.
I think I now understand decolonisation as an effort , materially and epistemologically, to undo that hierarchy and dispossession. I know this sounds obvious but it feels like new knowledge to me hehe.

2025-11-28 15:34:44 UTC

Perfume Genius in this song is so gooooood. It makes me all warm and fuzzy and teary eyed
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ywuVPoRxvc

2025-11-27 21:04:10 UTC

The worst customers are those who stay past closing time. Go. Home. And let me go home too!!!

2025-11-27 16:04:50 UTC

Why am I getting emails from NaMo’s team?!?!???

2025-11-23 12:56:00 UTC

my doggo is slowly going blind

2025-11-19 08:44:51 UTC

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imposter syndrome khoop zoraat hit kartoey karanki my brain is hardcoded to compete in a ratrace ani jevha i hang out with people who are way more pochlele than me, i just get super anxious and depressed and feel worthless lol.

2025-11-18 21:46:24 UTC

Let the earth crack open and swallow me whole please

2025-11-15 07:49:15 UTC

I just want to give a s/o to my server admin @npub1rad…9rls who makes my existence on Mastodon possible even though he is super spread thin iirc

2025-11-15 07:24:25 UTC

Some kid in the pram at the bus stop was yelling “SIX SEVEN”. I know this meme exists but idk what it means and frankly I do not want to either.

2025-11-15 07:10:03 UTC

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yeah i heard another friend say the same thing. @npub1rad…9rls have you noticed this?

2025-11-14 07:50:56 UTC

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I can see the quote. @npub1rad…9rls can you?

2025-11-14 07:50:09 UTC

RE: https://mastinsaan.in/@mehluv/115546577131789002
Test
#note1tzu…av94

2025-10-27 09:36:18 UTC

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https://www.counterfire.org/article/nuclear-is-not-the-solution-the-folly-of-atomic-power-in-the-age-of-climate-change-book-review/

2025-10-27 09:31:46 UTC

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https://jacobin.com/2024/03/kohei-saito-degrowth-communism-environment-marxism

2025-10-27 08:18:56 UTC

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kohei saito or nuclear?

2025-10-26 22:05:27 UTC

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Am i getting radicalised against kohei saito (rapidly)?

2025-10-26 21:37:59 UTC

Am i getting radicalised against nuclear (slowly but steadily)?

2025-10-26 12:40:42 UTC

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i’ve been to this exact store! Is this near an art gallery?

2025-10-20 15:34:05 UTC

So if someone self identifies as a rationalist, imma consider that as a dog whistle

2025-10-15 08:18:17 UTC

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mine were satsangs at art of living LOL

2025-10-12 14:16:34 UTC

Laut aao Frank Ocean

2025-10-12 09:56:16 UTC

Chetan Bhagat got exposed by Uorfi lol

2025-10-02 11:33:50 UTC

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oh my! Say more

2025-09-28 17:45:31 UTC

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piracy

2025-09-28 17:32:03 UTC

Everything everywhere all at once

2025-09-25 14:11:16 UTC

Have had continuous lectures since 10 AM. Now I go to work from 5:30PM to 9:30PM

2025-09-15 07:00:08 UTC

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There is a great episode on this book by If Books Could Kill and it helped me laugh about it.

2025-09-13 10:59:12 UTC

wait we can quote post now? How??

2025-09-04 18:09:53 UTC

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a left leaning author/ academic/activist and my professor

2025-09-04 16:07:53 UTC

Spotted in the toilet of Smålands Nation
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/115/146/887/674/102/814/original/07e9f08870aa0df7.jpeg

2025-08-29 06:44:45 UTC

My state in India - Maharashtra is going to increase working hours for the private sector to 10 hours a day. This is apparently to aid employees who are already working more than 10 hours but are not being compensated. But fuck we all know it’s for the “ease of doing business”. Fascism and capitalism are so heavily intertwined.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/10-hours-a-day-maharashtra-reportedly-planning-to-increase-working-hours-for-private-sector-employees-all-you-need-to-know/articleshow/123550822.cms
Shared by my friend

2025-08-26 09:02:08 UTC

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my classes start next week. Really anxious about that. But otherwise I am doing great :D Hope you get good rest during the weekend <3

2025-08-26 05:56:07 UTC

[@xrisk](https://social.treehouse.systems/@xrisk ) & I watched Inside Llewyn Davis yesterday. I know this is a bad take but I don't like the Coen Brothers. Or maybe I am yet to find the right film by the Coen Brothers. IDK.

2025-08-26 05:44:36 UTC

So I sent myself a courier from India and it reached two days after I reached. But I was in a seminar so they went back. Next time they tried to deliver, I was at home (!) But they did not call me, or maybe they did but got the country code wrong. The DHL lady said that if the third time they do not get me, my courier will be sent back with return charges. So today I am going to sit outside my apartment building till I get my delivery. 🤠

2025-08-26 05:41:38 UTC

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Will try this too. I really freak out while speaking to British or American people. Some weird colonial hangover I guess. I make very basic grammatical errors and fumble a lot.

2025-08-25 17:21:23 UTC

hi gremlins, how goes it?

2025-08-17 08:02:42 UTC

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let’s gooo!

2025-08-17 06:20:44 UTC

Hi my mastodon gremlins. How goes the day?!

2025-08-17 04:15:46 UTC

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She’s also being an entitled prick wrt the driver

2025-08-17 04:12:58 UTC

The woman in my shared cab is very loudly and confidently singing off key

2025-08-11 04:17:10 UTC

Investigation: More than 5,000 Double and Dubious Voters from Uttar Pradesh make it to ECI’s Voter List for a Bihar Constituency
https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/5-000-dubious-voters-from-up-make-it-to-bihar-constituency

2025-08-10 12:27:52 UTC

I am developing a LinkedIn addiction :ms_shocked:

2025-08-10 04:12:02 UTC

My auto driver today is a woman! She is also breaking traffic rules and driving rashly (adeptly too ). Women can do anything men can do!!! 🤭

2025-08-10 02:53:14 UTC

Why this Indian newsroom AI story scandal should terrify readers
https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/08/08/why-this-indian-newsroom-ai-story-scandal-should-terrify-readers

2025-08-06 04:23:50 UTC

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kiti fast fast vachan! OMG!

2025-08-05 11:42:04 UTC

Isabel Fall's is one of the saddest stories I have read. This really shook me. I hope to work on not being so reactive, because if I really think about it, I don't know if I would have been one of those dogpiling on Isabel Fall. Do read.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250305162300/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter
You can read the original story published on Clarkesworld here:
https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2020-01-15-fall-isexuallyidentifyasanattackhelicopter.html

2025-08-04 10:58:42 UTC

Why India’s Heat Plans And Funding Must Go Beyond Crisis Response
Despite rising temperatures, India's fragmented approach to heat financing leaves informal workers vulnerable and solutions stuck in reactive mode. We spoke to experts to understand the politics and possibilities of a streamlined framework
https://behanbox.com/2025/06/29/why-indias-heat-plans-and-funding-must-go-beyond-crisis-response/

2025-08-04 06:00:49 UTC

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if you end up writing an essay on this, consider submitting to bilori journal- my friends run it. It is bilingual marathi & english journal that publishes stuff like this. Very small scale though hehe. https://bilorijournal.substack.com/p/introducing-bilori-on-substack-call

2025-08-03 22:30:09 UTC

Land Guns Caste Woman is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Absolutely gripping.
It is a window into erstwhile Andhra, particularly Hyderabad in terms of its progressive movements.
Communists in India have been such a let down. Such such such a let down.
Anyway, if you are interested in Telugu radical literature and the anti caste and communist movements in AP please read this book! I cannot recommend it enough.

2025-08-03 10:16:59 UTC

My friend needs a laptop. If someone has an old laptop (it needs to be usable!!!) they would like to donate, please reach out to me. m@madhushreek.com.
My friend is a Bahujan woman in her final year of Bachelor’s. She is the first person in her family, and first woman from her village to go to college. She needs a laptop to learn how to use the computer, so that she can upskill for job opportunities. Please amplify!
For logistical reasons only looking for donors in India!
#MastIndia #Boost

2025-08-03 03:54:43 UTC

What rising temperatures are doing to women’s health in India https://india.mongabay.com/2025/07/what-rising-temperatures-are-doing-to-womens-health-in-india-commentary/

2025-08-02 06:26:39 UTC

Starting a series called #WTFLinkedIn. In this edition, “do not deport Bengali Muslims because we need cheap labour to exploit” 😭 shared by [@xrisk](https://social.treehouse.systems/@xrisk )
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/114/957/745/986/714/364/original/bce28fcffb3c3092.jpeg

2025-08-01 09:35:36 UTC

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you are here for fieldwork ka atta?
Also hope throat becomes fine soon!

2025-08-01 08:59:05 UTC

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https://mastodon.social/@TheSouthFirst/114951692036519500

2025-08-01 08:56:21 UTC

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southfirst is a news outlet and this was one of their headlines 🤦🏽‍♂️

2025-08-01 04:50:37 UTC

Wtf is TheSouthFirst posting? Is this journalism!
‘Ghee bath’ for eyes divides Ayurveda, modern medicine practitioners

2025-07-29 05:13:00 UTC

A take I really disagree with is: “streaming has spelled death for owning art.” The take basically speaks to how we no longer own CDs, mixtapes, tapes, etc. I think that’s the weakest criticism of the current ecosystem. Tbh I do not want to own a lot of books and CDs. It’s wasteful. I would much rather have access to a well-resourced and well stocked library and borrow things from it. I understand owning a few books/movies that will be re-read/watched again and again. Or albums that will be listened to in loop. But most times we don’t do that.
It is also better for the planet that we do not hoard so many things.

2025-07-24 18:13:15 UTC

Why is substack’s mobile app like social media?

2025-07-21 06:41:38 UTC

The digital India thing is such a farce. One of my friends who is not digitally adept and is only comfortable in Hindi is struggling to fill a form for a government job. The website is not translated. For all the Hindi imposition these fuckers do, I cannot believe they haven't translated the mobile version of this jobs portal into Hindi. My friend doesn't have a laptop, cannot afford to do this in a cyber cafe and her phone does not have enough space to download the app.
There are so many barriers to applying for this job that even I am struggling to support her through it.
The digitalisation of India has been an cruel and effective way of excluding thousands of Indians from jobs, schemes, and benefits.

2025-07-16 16:54:16 UTC

Mk.gee and Dijon were the only reason I listened to the new JB album. It was okay okay tho

2025-07-15 08:40:13 UTC

I usually post LinkedIn cringe but this is too good
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/114/856/341/202/908/010/original/44a6fd5548d9d3da.png

2025-07-14 06:13:26 UTC

People who have all their notifications off, how do y’all deal with emergencies and all?

2025-07-11 08:43:09 UTC

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i am moving to sweden for my master's. the type of visa required is known as a resident permit

2025-07-11 04:15:04 UTC

my residence permit has reached delhi. thank fuck.

2025-07-09 10:54:29 UTC

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No this is just the PR he is doing so people don't get mad about how Khan Academy is just going to do what other companies are doing with AI. Integrate it into their products, perhaps even employ it to create content. They haven't disclosed the complete details yet.
He has been giving many interviews about how AI would revolutionise education. Even a TED talk he gave.

2025-07-09 08:47:00 UTC

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His other interviews are worse
"The AI teaching assistants, he said, will be able to monitor the classroom along with the actual teacher. They'll be able to help children when needed and "report back to the teacher." For example, he added, AI could determine a student's personal interests and suggest relevant adjustments to the lesson plan to increase the odds that the student would engage with the material.
"'Hey, I noticed Catty is not as engaged as she was yesterday,'" Khan said. "Or, 'Look, Sal is really engaged today, why don't you go praise him on this thing that he did last night you might have not noticed?' or 'Did you know that he's really into baseball? Let's make the next example about that, just for Sal.'""

2025-07-09 08:44:44 UTC

Sal, c'mon. We are not that stupid. Sneakily saying that you will do what you are claiming you won't do lol.
"“Our true north is human-to-human connection.”
That’s how Sal Khan described our vision of AI-enabled education on NBC News Meet The Press this weekend.
In a wide-ranging interview, Sal shared how we’re using AI to create more space for real learning—not just faster answers or shinier tools.
How? Our AI is woven directly into the trusted, world-class academic content students already use for math, science, humanities, and more. The result? Learners get real-time support. Teachers get time back. And classrooms get a little more human."
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/sal-khan-says-a-i-can-help-teachers-create-an-exceptional-classroom-full-interview-242419781886

2025-07-09 08:07:29 UTC

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Manto is astute in his observations of communal violence and the experiences of partition. I think he is definitely an author to be read, but like GGM he is a very male author with a certain gaze that I do not enjoy.