Xodus, Volume 1
Mutuals from other platforms, but mainly Xwitter refugees for now. People I am reasonably sure are who they say they are, but I am not infallible. Happy to take you off this list if you want me to.
Created by
@zigzackly.bsky.social
@lavanya.bsky.social
Author: INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist Game Designer Rep: Cameron McClure
@zoo-bear.bsky.social
Fact-Checker | OSINT | Co-founder @AltNews | Analysing misinfo/disinfo | E-mail: zubair@altnews.in X id : @zoo_bear
@raheelk.bsky.social
Co-founder @LaminarGlobal World's Most Advanced Streaming Tech PaaS / Alum: Twitter, Change.org, Snap / Fellowships: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Asia21, Aspen
@georgiap.bsky.social
Human and world citizen from Trinidad and Tobago. Lifelong learner. Bicyclist. Walker. Maker of things. Managing director of Global Voices.
@arunava.bsky.social
Bengali-English-Bengali #literarytranslator ~ #nowtranslating a literary novel by day, a detective novel by night ~ All posts are strictly personal views. arunavasinha.in
@unmana.bsky.social
I wrote Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd, a “cosy Bangalore murder mystery with a realistic portrayal of queer lives” (Scroll). More at unmana.com. I live with @nileshb.bsky.social.
@natashabadhwar.bsky.social
writer, teacher, film-maker lover, crier, enthusiastic about most things autistic, artistic, anagelistic
@whyloiter.bsky.social
Handle based on book Why Loiter: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets by Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade.
@chenthil.bsky.social
49. Truck Fleet Owner in South India. Books / Poetry / Baking / Running / Gym / Translation.
@lizflock.bsky.social
Journalist | Latest book “The Furies” ❤️🔥 | Host of the podcast Blind Plea | Stories in many places
@danishhusain.bsky.social
@rakeshfilm.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker. Best-known film, #FinalSolution, deals with the rise and growth of Politics of Hate and Intolerance
@soniafaleiro.bsky.social
Books: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing + Beautiful Thing. Founder, South Asia Speaks. Co-founder, Books For Gaza.
@rohanvenkat.bsky.social
Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Managing Editor, CASI, University of Pennsylvania || 📍Cairo, Egypt rohanv on Twitter
@mridulakoshy.bsky.social
Anti-caste, Organiser, The Community Library Project @tclp.bsky.social Member, Research and Action @freelibsnet.bsky.social Need allies for creating a free library movement in India. Reading is Thinking. Reading is Resistance.
@shefaly.bsky.social
Provocative questions | Epistemologically open-minded | Polyglot | Portfolio Board Director via AI & Tech | Risk, Talent, Geopolitics, Governance | Writing a book
@zenrainman.bsky.social
Working with communities on building water resilience . Pluviophile.
@indrajitgupta.bsky.social
Business journalist & editor. Co-founder, Founding Fuel. Passionate about cricket, movies, leadership, strategy & management.
@purnima.bsky.social
Free library lady. Sometimes I do jokes. || www.fln.org.in || @freelibsnet.bsky.social
@hrvenkatesh.bsky.social
Always looking for conversation. Checking for narratives re: polarisation, propaganda, disinfo at BOOM FactCheck, writing mediabuddhi.substack.com | Professional journalist, Bangalorean Delhiwala in London. A legal alien kinda like Englishman in New York.
@blrgirl.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. Dormant writer. Airbnb host. Dog mom. Indian Xennial. Used to love and live for far too many things, but currently fumbling my way through grief and bereavement Not boring, not cynical, def not a right-wing fuckwit 📍Blr | Mys She/ Her
@rupalk.bsky.social
I live in NYC, love trying new foods, traveling, and will post mostly about politics and life. Liberal. Posts & reposts are my personal opinions. Manhattan Community Board Six member.
@sukhadatatke.bsky.social
Reader | Reporter | Writer Essays/features: The Rumpus, LitHub, Al Jazeera, BBC, Wired, Commonwealth Writers etc. Writing: https://sukhadatatke.contently.com/ Comms for IPPR Scotland | Views my own 🏠 Edinburgh ❤️ Bombay
@ps-nissim.bsky.social
Nerd. Writer. Desi. Lit critic. Erstwhile podcaster. Into Horror these days. Novellas: Brown Boy, Pillar of the King. Available at Bookworm/Blossom if you're in Bangalore, on Amazon elsewhere.
@majunteo.bsky.social
Journalist #india #southasia Podcast producer https://linktr.ee/majunteo
@dinadm.bsky.social
Qualitative Research, Ethnography. Convo.org. @dina on Twitter/X
@karishmaupadhyay.bsky.social
Author of Parveen Babi: A Life. Freelance journalist who writes about film, travel & food. Byline @HTBrunch, @t2telegraph & @Firstpost.
@ameyann.bsky.social
Getting shit done since 2000 | Cat lady, occasional writer and pathological editor | Do not take too seriously
@matratype.bsky.social
Typeface design at @typetogether.bsky.social and elsewhere + writing about design, especially Indic scripts Occasionally birding and pixel drawing she/her/they
@baxiabhishek.info
Technology Journalist | Digital Consultant ✍️ Mint, The Morning Context, Newslaundry, MakeUseOf, Forbes, et al. 💬 Founder/Editor: The Podcast Hub
@ranasafvi.bsky.social
historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
@latelyontime.bsky.social
Feminist. Humanist. Technologist. Professor Global Media (CUHK), Director (Digital Narratives Studio), all-around rambler and general purpose story-teller. Trying to find reticence in battles of things that can and cannot be said.
@anujchopra.bsky.social
Disinformation correspondent, AFP. Based in Washington D.C. Past lives: New York, Riyadh, Kabul, Hong Kong, Pune. Ex-Knight Bagehot and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University. Scoops, food recs? anuj.chopra@afp.com
@shilpabhatnagar.bsky.social
Urbanist • Writer • Compulsive Photographer • Designer At Large • Artist in Progress • Cat Whisperer •Book Hoarder •Chronically Ill •Chronically Uncool
@cheftzac.bsky.social
Championing local food and sustainability across India with The Locavore. #DoingGoodThroughFood www.TheLocavore.in
@rimibchatterjee.bsky.social
Writing the Antisense Universe. E-books @one dollar Cities of the Future https://books2read.com/u/470ZrL Signal Red: Remounted https://books2read.com/u/bMyzjV Ashqabad: City of Stories, https://books2read.com/u/3R70gp
@samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
@divyakrthk.bsky.social
Journalist. Chennai girl at heart. Prev: Race & Equity reporter @ Louisville Public Media divya.karthikeyan94@gmail.com
@pranesh.in
Tech policy & law @anekaanta.org Also: Co-founder, Centre for Internet & Society / Affiliated Fellow, @yaleisp.bsky.social #a2k #privacy #FoE #AI #infosec #netgov #FOSS #NetNeutrality #a11y #DPI zhōngyōng & anēkāntavāda prāṇēś prakāś pranesh.in
@amitava.bsky.social
Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
@km17.bsky.social
Freelance Journalist. Words in: Atlas Obscura, Afar, Al Jazeera, BBC Magazines, Irish Examiner, Khaleej Times, Times of India Group, Travel & Leisure, Lonely Planet Guidebooks... Open to commissions
@rahulabhatia.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy
@blaftrakesh.bsky.social
(any/all) Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social. Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-by-rakesh-khanna/
@jackerhack.ing
Type A personality: champion procrastinator. Co-founder @hasgeek.com, still have a day job there, but considering a break to write on identity vs identification. Signal: kiran.11 Web: https://jackerhack.ing
@harmonysiganporia.bsky.social
I read, write, teach, walk, sing, scowl, and care deeply. Happiest in old-growth forests and alongside cackling rivers. Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, MICA-India; author of ‘Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas’ (OUP, 2022)
@nadjanadika.bsky.social
அவள் ஒரு Trans Lesbiab She. Dyque they. Dp: Art Deco style logo using stylised illustration of myself set against ornamental elements. Cover: My photo of Thalankuppam Pier தமிழ் போல் வாழ்க!
@arunikashyap.bsky.social
Assoc Professor of Creative Writing, University of Georgia. l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 2024I How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l linktr.ee/arunikashyap l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/aruni https://experts.uga.edu/703
@kandasamy.bsky.social
Poet & Novelist ¦ Fellow, Royal Society of Literature ¦ Winner PEN Hermann Kesten Prize '22 ¦ Shortlisted Womens Prize ¦ Fellow IWP, Iowa ¦ PhD ¦ தமிழ்
@shikhamalaviya.bsky.social
poet | mentor | undercover historian (through poetry)| Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023)| Geography of Tongues, (TGIPC, 2014).
@masalabai.bsky.social
Dep Asia Editor @Independent | Forbes Power Women's List '19 | Laadli Award | Twitter@sayfty Changemaker | Orange Flower Award | former India Representative, Reporters Sans Frontieres | Media panelist | Mentor | Gender Rights Advocacy
@electrostani.bsky.social
Professor of English at Lehigh University. He/his. Anglophone Postcolonial / Modernism / African American Literature / Digital Humanities.
@hamsini.bsky.social
Now: micro-retired and looking for my next work home. Previous Avatars: China Expert @LogicallyAI, Consultant at Indian MEA, Yenching Fellow, Thinktanker. Views all mine.
@nilanjana.bsky.social
Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@tashanmehta.bsky.social
Author. MAD SISTERS OF ESI (DAW Books, 2025 | HarperCollins India, 2023),THE LIAR'S WEAVE (Juggernaut, 2017) Mostly on Instagram. Website: https://www.tashanmehta.com/
@vaniilaessence.bsky.social
Late bloomer, early wilter Gets better after the first half, but leave your brains at home
@nilanjanaroy.bsky.social
Otter of books Black River: https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-india https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-roy Novelist, FT columnist, professional cat herder
@mrnarci.bsky.social
he/him, 35. film | cats | chelsea fc 🔵 | bombay and goa | local trains | books | language | history | personal is political header from Gaman (1978) https://letterboxd.com/MrNarci/ https://twitter.com/MrNarci
@sansip.bsky.social
Books, etc. “Sometimes, I, too, sought expression. I know now that my gods grant me no more than allusion or mention”: Borges
@sgcarney.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author. Anthropologist. Investigative journalist. scottcarney.com
@gauravsabnis.bsky.social
Food, travel, politics, entertainment, outdoors, astronomy, and bad jokes enthusiast. Posts are a random daily stream of consciousness. Assoc Prof of Marketing on Lenape land at Stevens Institute of Technology. He/Him.
@nakulshenoy.bsky.social
The Mind Reader | Mentalist. Author. Communication Scientist. Bibliophile. Teaholic. Bangalore, India | www.nakulshenoy.com Starter Packs: OG Indian Twitterati: https://go.bsky.app/Uc7BVTR Magicians & Mentalists: https://go.bsky.app/LaXxxxB
@samitbasu.bsky.social
Novelist. Out last, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport (Tor, 23). I also make films, comics, and other typing-based lifeforms. Currently the lead instructor for the inaugural Clarion West novel-writing workshop. https://samitbasu.com
@ishmeetnagpal.bsky.social
Film Critic Poet Creative Writing Coach Editor (Former) Publisher Mother to Mira 🐕
@ushankar.bsky.social
Connector. Conversation starter. Counselor to entrepreneurs. Founder, The Goa Project. www.digeratus.in
@bombil-fry.bsky.social
Here for books, loitering, cats, and trees. But also interested in history, teaching and collectively doing better.
@eyefry.bsky.social
Writer-illustrator, BSFA and CWSS finalist, lapsed magazine editor and craft beer branding guy, design prof., music nerd, cat wrangler, tragic anti-hero. #createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design www.mixtape.in
@aldebaran14.bsky.social
Engineer, interdisciplinary researcher, Wikimedian, polyglot. Writing. Teaching. Gaia is god. Personal views. The personal is political. https://about.me/rohini
@manjushreethapa.bsky.social
Writer & literary translator from Kathmandu, now based in Toronto. Always, always working on a new book. www.manjushreethapa.com
@ideasmithy.bsky.social
Ideas are toys for a playful mind. Books📚 | Plants🪴 | Feminism🧗🏽♂️| Swimming 🏊🏽♀️ | Mumbai🏝️
@calamur.bsky.social
Writer. Film Maker. Academic. Columnist.Main slave to a Judgmental Hound:). @Calamur@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/calamur #SciComm,#Gender,#economics #india #dogs
@veenavenugopal.bsky.social
India Newsletter Editor @FT Author - Independence Day: A People’s History - Aug ‘22. The Mother-in-Law (2014); Would You Like Some Bread With That Book (2012). Views are personal.
@mithila.bsky.social