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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · 12d

The #WimbledonBookFest is 🔥🔥🔥 this year. Been to sold-out talks with Nussaibah Younis, Sanam Mahloudji, Julea Kim, Ela Lee, Park Seolyeon, Nikita Gill, Elodie Harper, Matthew Teller and Mahmoud Muna. All absorbing, thought-provoking & enriching! Bravo to the team! 👏🏽👏🏽

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 24d

ICYMI: More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses” as they face an “existential crisis” 👇

Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Sep 21

‘They’d allowed me to enter realms of darkness, guiding me through and showing me beauty where my fears once lay.’ - @monisharajesh.bsky.social on the gift of night trains, in her new and lovely book, Moonlight Express. #travelwriting

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Harper-Duffy @matthewharperduffy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Continuing my summer reading, just finished Wanderland by @jinireddy.bsky.social . Brilliant book.

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you so much! I’m so pleased you enjoyed it. 😊

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fundamentally by @nussaibah.bsky.social is brilliant!

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Jul 26

My feature on central Montenegro, strikingly beautiful and often overlooked by visitors, is in today’s @theguardian.com ! Many thanks to Jane Dunford for commissioning.

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · May 24

Montenegro - views on a bike ride down to Lake Skadar, a bird paradise.

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · May 16

Such a moving celebration of powerful new work by Gazan artist Malak Mattar at Central St Martins yesterday eve.
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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · May 14

‘Why travel didn’t bring the world together’ Interesting piece by columnist Janan Ganesh in @ftweekend.com

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · May 6

‘His essays portrayed the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience…’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · May 5

Not to be missed! In aid of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 27

Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon. Peak flower!

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 21

Sand, sea, and sky, Ilha da Armona

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 21

Brave and principled and inspiring

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Apr 21

"Today, a group of Columbia University students and alumni chained themselves to the campus gates, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi."

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...

Students and alumni tether themselves to 116th and Amsterdam gates in protest of ICE detaining affiliates

Around two dozen protesters sat down in front of the 116th Street and Amsterdam gates at around 12:00 p.m. on Monday, with at least three tethering themselves to the gates with bike locks.

www.columbiaspectator.com

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Apr 15

Great to see spine-stiffening example of @harvard.edu; refusal to bow to Trump's demands for staggering federal interference. Others following suit.
Assault on universities =
* assault on public purpose of education
* on freedom of thought
* on life-saving research
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...

www.thecrimson.com

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 15

Cycling in the Rio Formosa Natural Park near Olhão, Portugal

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · Apr 14

Jini did the most wonderful reading for us at our launch - lucky us!! And lucky us to have her writing, and that of these other brilliant writers, in our latest anthology 🚲

Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 12

For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 13

"If still-living souls, crying out from Gaza to the outside world, are barely heard, how will ancient stones fare any better before they erode away, taking with them the history of a city and a people?"

Three powerful stories by young Palestinian writers in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writers

Authors from the We Are Not Numbers project on their dreams of becoming architects or artists, and a report on how a young woman found fulfilment in fast food

www.theguardian.com

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · Apr 12

For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · Apr 2

I have heard from people in Gaza, and they are starving. There is a genuine fear too that this escalation is about taking the land forever.

I urget the gov't to recognise the state of Palestine because at some point it just won't exist anymore.

with Andrew Marr on LBC:

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