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You asked, we delivered. Introducing TLDR by Proseterity. Every Wednesday, 9 PM IST. Sign up via the link in bio. Eligibility criteria: Consistent refusal to condense, shorten, flatten and/or summarise the self. Let's start living in longform again. #ReadingCircle #CriticalThinking #TLDR #InDefenseOfLongform #NoMoreSummaries #Proseterity #BackToReading

📍16 May | Sat | 11:30AM | Ages 18+ ➡️ Found Wanting Open Instagram for ten minutes. Notice what happens to your body. You didn’t log on hungry. But now you want a better apartment, a different body, a trip you’d never considered. Nobody forced you. You just saw a few images… This is the most underexamined form of influence in modern life: the image that tells you what contentment looks like, what satisfaction looks like. And because it is visual, it bypasses argument entirely. This is a small-group workshop for the curious. Using drawing, writing, and mind-mapping, you will learn to slow the machinery down and look at it directly. Where do your wants actually come from? Which ones are yours? Limited Seats ✉️ Free and Open to All. RSVP Now!

The Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality is happy to announce that the Summer Internship Programme 2026 is now open! The Centre is calling for student applications for a wide range of internship projects relating to gender, sexuality, and their intersections. This year, we have a diverse set of internships that would be of interest to students across the academic spectrum. Please read the brochure linked in bio carefully to learn of the available projects conceptualized by Ashoka faculty members, as well as organisations that work on the ground. These opportunities are ideal for students who wish to understand how gender and sexuality interact with a diversity of disciplines, experiences and fields of inquiry, outside of their classrooms. The duration of the internship is from 1 June 2026 to 1 August 2026 (two months). We will be providing each intern with a stipend of INR 10,000 per month. The deadline for all applications is May 17th, Sunday. All applications must be submitted through a single Google form linked in the brochure -- we won't be able to accept applications over email. In case of any queries, please write to us at [email protected].

Interrupt yourself, in incredible company. TLDR: Too Long, DO Read. Free, online, open to all. Sign up via the link in bio. Comment "TLDR" for a link to our updated reading repository.

TLDR is 30! Of course you get a gift. Comment "TLDR" and we’ll DM you a link to our updated reading repository with PDFs of everything we’ve read so far.

Meet the Nominees! (6/10) Five more inspiring contenders for the Indiecon International Travel Grant 2026 🌍✨ Take a closer look and get to know their amazing projects! Curious to see them all? Head to indiecon-festival.com to explore the full list.  #indiecon #independentpublishing #indiepublishers #publishingcommunity #indiecon2026

Awe, Scale, and the Practice of Looking Up: A Critiqala workshop in dialogue with the exhibition, “Beneath the Turning Sky” at @mapbangalore Conducted on January 31st, 2026. Facilitated by our Founding Editor, Aastha D., this workshop was about relearning one’s relationship to scale — to time, matter, story, uncertainty, and responsibility. Through guided reflection, collective discussion, slow looking, reading, writing, drawing, and mapping, we encountered the sky as a cultural and conceptual construct, across art, science, myth, and lived traditions. Congratulations to our collaborators at MAP for curating an expansive yet deeply intimate exhibition. Bangalore, thank you once again for your thoughtful and attentive participation. 🤍 Slides 1, 4, 7, 10, and 12 are from the workshop handbook, written and designed by Aastha D. Photography credits for slides 2, 3, 5, and 9: MAP Bangalore. Want to curate a workshop with us? Write to [email protected].

Every Wednesday, at 9 PM IST, we meet online for 40 minutes to read together. Lying in bed, cooking dinner, feeding the cats, or dutifully sitting in front of the computer. Slipping, sliding, chafing against one another, we are held together by words, taking turns reading out loud. TLDR: Too Long DO Read. Join us to remember what it means to consume with rigor, care, and tenderness. Sign up via the link in bio. Read the entire essay on our Substack. Written by our Founding Editor, Aastha D. Enjoy the extensive footnotes!

Alive. Inevitable. Necessary. Happy birthday, Toni Morrison. 🤍

ONCE UPON A TIME IN TWO WORLDS What happens when fairy tales migrate? Thank you to @proseterity and Aastha D who led took our young participants on a journey across cultures.

CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP by @proseterity What happens when fairy tales migrate? As they move, they adapt and change shape across cultures. In this workshop, young readers explore how stories from Germany and India travel — and how to retell them for their own worlds. From the Brothers Grimm to the Panchatantra and Kerala’s Aithihyamala, we look at how tales carry fear, humour, hunger, hope, and imagination wherever they land. Through playful retelling, perspective shifts, and creative exercises, participants learn how stories are built—and how to rebuild them. Friday, 23 January, 2026 10:30 am to 12:30 pm German Pavilion, Kerala Literature Festival, Kozhikode Beach Facilitated by: Aastha D. - writer, cultural critic, and founder of Critiqala. This workshop is part of Guest Nation Germany programming at the Kerala Literature Festival - 2026 and is produced in collaboration with Proseterity.

Languages are not interchangeable. They feel different in the mouth. They move differently on the page. This session invites you into translation as a creative, ethical, and deeply human practice—one that involves loss, invention, compromise, and delight. Through examples from Indian literature, global writing, and visual culture, we’ll explore how translation shapes what we know of each other—and how we imagine the world. Facilitated by: Aastha D. Aastha D. is a writer, educator, and the Founding Editor of Proseterity. They write essays on design, art, architecture, and culture, drawing from their background in architecture and an MS in Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Practices from Columbia University GSAPP, New York. This event will be conducted via Critiqala, the education vertical of Proseterity, a literary magazine and cultural platform dedicated to creating spaces for thinking slowly, critically, and collectively—across art, language, and culture. Date: Sunday, 25 January, 2026 Time: 10 am to 1 pm Venue: German Pavilion, Kerala Literature Festival, Kozhikode Beach Register by scanning the QR code or via the link on @proseterity ’s bio. This workshop is part of Guest Nation Germany programming at the Kerala Literature Festival - 2026 and is produced in collaboration with Proseterity. @goethezentrumtvm @germanconsulatebengaluru