Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
@meenakshi.bsky.social
Author of several books (my latest is SOFT ANIMAL), cat person, reader & city Explorer. I live in Berlin and I'm from New Delhi so huge Big City energy.
I like my animals where I can see 'em--in photos featuring the prime minister at a private zoo on a billionaire's "farm" somewhere in Gujarat.
March 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I like my animals where I can see 'em--in photos featuring the prime minister at a private zoo on a billionaire's "farm" somewhere in Gujarat.
Do you sometimes find yourself playing back something really rude someone once said to you except in your mind movie, you've absolutely DESTROYED them as opposed to real life where you made some capitulating noises?
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Do you sometimes find yourself playing back something really rude someone once said to you except in your mind movie, you've absolutely DESTROYED them as opposed to real life where you made some capitulating noises?
In 2025 I will be MORE pedantic because I think the world needs us now. Too long have we let facts slide!
December 28, 2024 at 12:08 PM
In 2025 I will be MORE pedantic because I think the world needs us now. Too long have we let facts slide!
Funny how fairy lights make everything feel a little more ✴️festive✴️
December 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Funny how fairy lights make everything feel a little more ✴️festive✴️
Made it to the end of the year in record time because it was just May 2024 last month.
December 21, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Made it to the end of the year in record time because it was just May 2024 last month.
Under the category "I know you can but SHOULD you" yesterday we went for a weird performance art/theatre thing where she looped a video of her naked bottom literally shitting, like you saw the turds coming out, not once but TWICE and long & loving shots of this anus with the poop dangling from it
December 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Under the category "I know you can but SHOULD you" yesterday we went for a weird performance art/theatre thing where she looped a video of her naked bottom literally shitting, like you saw the turds coming out, not once but TWICE and long & loving shots of this anus with the poop dangling from it
A new post! A recap of my favourite non book things this year https://open.substack.com/pub/mrm/p/the-internet-personified-my-best?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8al
The Internet Personified: My best life-stuff this year
A round up of my favourites in 2024
open.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
A new post! A recap of my favourite non book things this year https://open.substack.com/pub/mrm/p/the-internet-personified-my-best?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8al
Totally Baader Meinhof phenomenon but I saw the book Parallel Lives mentioned on a Lit Hub post about the best "old" books they had read that year, then I bought it & now I see it mentioned in this totally unrelated New Yorker article. Parallel Lives and I are meant to be.
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Totally Baader Meinhof phenomenon but I saw the book Parallel Lives mentioned on a Lit Hub post about the best "old" books they had read that year, then I bought it & now I see it mentioned in this totally unrelated New Yorker article. Parallel Lives and I are meant to be.
ughhh there's a facebook security glitch which has disabled my account (something about a fake instagram profile.) looks like i won't get it back unless i pay for meta verified to talk to someone which pshhh as if. sadly i have now lost my fb account that i've had since 2004.
December 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
ughhh there's a facebook security glitch which has disabled my account (something about a fake instagram profile.) looks like i won't get it back unless i pay for meta verified to talk to someone which pshhh as if. sadly i have now lost my fb account that i've had since 2004.
My husband got me a Harper's magazine subscription for my birthday and then my dad gave me some cash which I used to buy a New Yorker subscription so I'm going to read sooooo much print this year! (excited.) (i miss magazines. had a lrb experimental subscription this year, one of my best things.)
December 16, 2024 at 5:49 PM
My husband got me a Harper's magazine subscription for my birthday and then my dad gave me some cash which I used to buy a New Yorker subscription so I'm going to read sooooo much print this year! (excited.) (i miss magazines. had a lrb experimental subscription this year, one of my best things.)
Reposted by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
Paperback day!
And speaking of paperbacks, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport paperbacks have arrived and will be available in December!
December 11, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Paperback day!
Haven't been a journalist in years, let alone in charge of the listings pages but I still get press releases from all sorts of random places on the reg. I usually delete them sight unseen but this small PS on the top of the email made me cackle
December 9, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Haven't been a journalist in years, let alone in charge of the listings pages but I still get press releases from all sorts of random places on the reg. I usually delete them sight unseen but this small PS on the top of the email made me cackle
the thing is, as i age, my library of people i know just keeps growing, right? then i meet a totally new person who happens to look like someone i once knew which in turn affects my feelings towards them.
December 8, 2024 at 8:21 AM
the thing is, as i age, my library of people i know just keeps growing, right? then i meet a totally new person who happens to look like someone i once knew which in turn affects my feelings towards them.
I have this little second hand bookstore/cafe near my house which sells all books for €2.50. They have a small but impressive English language collection so here are the first of my birthday presents!
December 8, 2024 at 7:52 AM
I have this little second hand bookstore/cafe near my house which sells all books for €2.50. They have a small but impressive English language collection so here are the first of my birthday presents!
it's the most wonderfullll time of the year apps.npr.org/best-books/#... (no but i think this is my favourite best books round up each year)
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:06 AM
it's the most wonderfullll time of the year apps.npr.org/best-books/#... (no but i think this is my favourite best books round up each year)
a little enid blyton fanfic for your reading pleasure (that i wrote) mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
The Internet Personified: What happened after Mallory Towers
A little speculative fiction
mrm.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM
a little enid blyton fanfic for your reading pleasure (that i wrote) mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
Our Very Large Cat (13.5 kilos, but he's just big boned!) sleeps all day and sometimes he snores so loudly and I'm alone at home and it's quite startling to hear these human sounds
November 29, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Our Very Large Cat (13.5 kilos, but he's just big boned!) sleeps all day and sometimes he snores so loudly and I'm alone at home and it's quite startling to hear these human sounds
The second half of my not-really-a-travelogue travelogue is out on my newsletter/blog substitute. I talk about Vienna (and yes, also recommend some food, but it's not really about what to see or eat in Vienna.) mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
November 27, 2024 at 11:37 AM
The second half of my not-really-a-travelogue travelogue is out on my newsletter/blog substitute. I talk about Vienna (and yes, also recommend some food, but it's not really about what to see or eat in Vienna.) mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
maybe you guys have some suggestions. i'm throwing a birthday party next month. i'm going to put out some nibbles, cheese, dip etc. i want to do a warm main, but my best mains are meaty and i'll have one or two vegetarians. do i do only veg food to keep it friendly for all? or meat main & veg sides?
November 25, 2024 at 9:42 AM
maybe you guys have some suggestions. i'm throwing a birthday party next month. i'm going to put out some nibbles, cheese, dip etc. i want to do a warm main, but my best mains are meaty and i'll have one or two vegetarians. do i do only veg food to keep it friendly for all? or meat main & veg sides?
Happened to click on a story in The Hindu and was stopped in my tracks by this AI illustration. What is wrong with people's faces? Why are there two brides, both wearing face masks? And why is the thief (the story is about wedding crashers who go to parties and steal) holding a large change purse?
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Happened to click on a story in The Hindu and was stopped in my tracks by this AI illustration. What is wrong with people's faces? Why are there two brides, both wearing face masks? And why is the thief (the story is about wedding crashers who go to parties and steal) holding a large change purse?
also re: my last (whatever we call these little bluesky posts?) the berlin senate is cutting 15% of funding to cultural institutions so my library clothes swaps might soon be a thing of the past. not to mention just... my library. the place that brings me joy.
November 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM
also re: my last (whatever we call these little bluesky posts?) the berlin senate is cutting 15% of funding to cultural institutions so my library clothes swaps might soon be a thing of the past. not to mention just... my library. the place that brings me joy.
There's a book called Princess Minna which I learned about today and somehow Minna looks like me? (also a Minna)
November 22, 2024 at 5:39 PM
There's a book called Princess Minna which I learned about today and somehow Minna looks like me? (also a Minna)
I write a newsletter, did you know? Anyway, I've just been to Rome so I wrote about it. mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
The Internet Personified: Thirteen things about Rome
And what my mother and I did there
mrm.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
I write a newsletter, did you know? Anyway, I've just been to Rome so I wrote about it. mrm.substack.com/p/the-intern...
The older I get, the harder it is to read anything in "dark mode." White on black, no thank you. Black on white, yesss, old school newspaper princess.
October 24, 2024 at 10:45 AM
The older I get, the harder it is to read anything in "dark mode." White on black, no thank you. Black on white, yesss, old school newspaper princess.
Frightening news of OCI cards being cancelled because the NRI holder is critical of the Modi government
https://article-14.com/post/how-the-modi-govt-is-trying-to-silence-critics-in-the-diaspora-by-banning-them-from-india-65c98c934673f
https://article-14.com/post/how-the-modi-govt-is-trying-to-silence-critics-in-the-diaspora-by-banning-them-from-india-65c98c934673f
How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning Them From India
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled more than 100 Overseas Citizen of India cards over nine years, according to right-to-information responses we received from the home minist...
article-14.com
February 13, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Frightening news of OCI cards being cancelled because the NRI holder is critical of the Modi government
https://article-14.com/post/how-the-modi-govt-is-trying-to-silence-critics-in-the-diaspora-by-banning-them-from-india-65c98c934673f
https://article-14.com/post/how-the-modi-govt-is-trying-to-silence-critics-in-the-diaspora-by-banning-them-from-india-65c98c934673f