Tanuj’s Substack
Essays, notes on reading, notes on writing, and sometimes a short story.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Life Sentence #11 (opens the original)
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Khalil (opens the original)
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This story (I am not sure this is a ‘story’) was written in December 2024, and was published in Mint Lounge’s Fiction Special in January 2025. By then, the genocide in Gaza was already more than a year old. When I wrote the number of dead here (using an estimate on Wikipedia), I did that knowing that it was an underestimate, and also that the number was still growing. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uK4d!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
Life Sentence #10 (opens the original)
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Introducing “the draft two reading club” (opens the original)
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Life Sentence #9 (opens the original)
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