Narayani Basu

K.M. Panikkar truly embodied the chaos and the excitement of a new nation.
To read more about his fascinating life, get your copy of @narayanibasu.bsky.social 's A Man for All Seasons from your favourite bookstore or online.

K.M Panikkar was a multi-tasking superhero!
Read about his various avatars in @narayanibasu.bsky.social 's riveting biography, A Man for All Seasons.

Now in bookstores and online.

Monday blues sorted!
We are bookstore hopping in #Delhi and talking about what makes KM Panikkar one of the most interesting figures of Indian history with @narayanibasu.bsky.social
Join us on 14 July.

Pre orders for A Man for All Seasons are open now!

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Pre orders for A Man for All Seasons are open now!

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The fruits of 2014 to 2025.

Sneaking in a little awkward pride in myself.

Thank you!

OKAY OKAY! This is now REAL and while I'm nervous as hell and while the world is burning, I'm still really excited because this has been 5 years & a pandemic in the making.

Preorders for the biography of KM Panikkar are open! Available at bookstores near you & online! ✨

This heat will be the end of me my god

I should start getting active here again, no?

Proofing bunker.

Getting this book ready may well end my days 🥹

Dusk in Delhi.

A flight to northeast India is always beautiful.

This, I think, is Kanchenjunga.

The way I forget to post here is quite magnificent.

My biography of V.P Menon, Reforms Commissioner to India's last three Viceroys & the man who, along with Sardar Patel, got 565 princely states to sign on India's dotted line, goes into print yet again(!!!). ✨

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Second flight this week tomorrow. All I want in the middle of final edits & cover designs & general chaos is a NAP ffs.

Hello! Me please? :)

Descending into Delhi in November means being greeted by this ugly brownish-grey filth.

And again, full now but a selection of women working in/waffling about history for you to choose from go.bsky.app/KNeAnRj

Hi! Me too please! 🙋🏻‍♀️

No??

A Man for All Seasons, a biography on K.M. Panikkar, will be out in January 2025. It's taken five years and a pandemic to write this.

NERVES.

South Asia in a time of the breaking of nations Early on Christmas morning in 1962, the Indian diplomat S.S. Banerjee heard a mysterious knock on his door in Dacca, East Pakistan. Standing outside in the darkness was a 14-year-old boy, who beckoned...

www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout.... The Spectator reviews Avinash Paliwal (SOAS) new book: 'a gripping tale of espionage that opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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I guess it's time, eh?