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26 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
With Hugo Noms open, will try to highlight, over the next few days, some of the work I read in 2020, with the caveat that I'm sure there is a lot of amazing work I couldn't read.

By fellow-Indians: @lavanya_ln's Analogue/Virtual for best novel:

amazon.in/Analog-Virtual…
And in best SFF short story: @prashatsa's Seven Dreams of a Valley --

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/seven-…
Back to the novel category, I would commend for your consideration @EssaHansen's Nophek Gloss, Seth Dickinson's The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, and @aptshadow's The Children of Time.
Sorry, it's late and I am tired, I meant @aptshadow's Doors of Eden, not Children of Time.
In novellas, and I preface this by saying that I am not yet a big novella reader, I would commend for your consideration @RB_Lemberg's The Four Profound Weaves and @aliettedb' Seven of Infinities. There are more 2020 novellas that I have to read, but these are worth your while.

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12 Jan
This is such absolutely cynical stuff from the Supreme Court that it's hard to know where to begin.
The Court act as if it can "suspend" laws of its own sweet will. It can't.

For the Court to stay a law, it has to find that it is prima facie unconstitutional, and issue a reasoned order saying so. This is *not* optional.

For obvious reasons, it has not done so here.
It is cynical for another reason. A host of laws have been challenged before the Supreme Court in recent times, where arguments were *actually* made for prima facie unconstitutionality. The Court refused to stay any of these laws, and refused to even engage with the arguments.
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17 Dec 20
Obscene.
Let's be very clear that what Salve wants to do here is to effectively kill the right to protest by firing from the court's shoulder. It's the easiest thing for State agents to infiltrate a peaceful protest, cause violence, and then leave the "organiser" to bear the brunt.
In fact that's what the UP government has been up to with its ordinances. Make sure nobody ever calls a (peaceful) protest, because even if somebody totally random causes violence, the state can swoop down, confiscate your property, and put you in jail.
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14 Nov 20
"Personal liberty."
"Personal liberty."

m.thewire.in/article/rights…
"Personal liberty."

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10 Nov 20
Finished reading "Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement", by Kavita Punjabi:

amazon.in/Unclaimed-Harv…

What a wonderful and haunting book. <thread>

(1/n)
As the name suggests, the book is about the Tebhaga Movement (1946 - 1948), which was a peasant-led movement in Bengal, demanding 2/3 of the harvest for the tiller.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebhaga_m…

It eventually turned into an armed insurrection and was put down with force. (2/n)
Punjabi's focus is on the (prominent) role of women in the movement, which she reconstructs through oral interviews and testimonies, taken many years after it was over.

(3/n)
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3 Oct 20
Finished reading @aptshadow's The Doors of Eden. Whew. It's a really good book, and you should read it. A brief thread with some of my favourite passages (no spoilers):

(1/n)
"But this is still made landscape. We can never return it to what it was. The land is never still, and what we've made here cannot change and grow like a land should. It is a garden, but a garden is better than a wasteland."

(2/n)
"He was not good. He was good. He was not bad.

There are shades of qualities that your language does not accommodate. Between us there was not love or love but love. Love is pain sometimes. Sometimes pain is good ... complicated things."

(3/n)
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3 Oct 20
A quick note on phone tapping. It is, unfortunately, something that is left to the arbitrary discretion of the government, and at the root of this situation (unsurprisingly) is a bad Supreme Court judgment:

indiankanoon.org/doc/31276692/

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In PUCL v Union (1997), it was argued that, given the serious privacy issues involved, phone tapping cannot take place without judicial authorisation. Unfortunately, the Court did not agree, and instead laid down some guidelines, for bureaucratic authorisation.

(2/n)
To be honest, given the way magistrates mechanically allow remand applications and higher courts deny bail where fundamental issues of liberty are involved, I'm no longer confident that that would have made any difference, but that's another debate.

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