pangui @pangui.bsky.social She/her. Leftist atheist vegan who loves books, drag, and women’s sports.
Matthew Clayfield @mclayfield.bsky.social Lapsed journalist. Occasional critic and screenwriter. Author of much unpublished fiction.
Tejas @h-tejas.bsky.social PhD student.
Wanda Sykes @iamwandasykes.bsky.social Comic, producer, writer, stunt double, wife, mother, and know-it-all. Coming to a city near you...maybe.
#PleaseandThankYou Tour 2025 tickets on-sale now: wandasykes.com
Hannah @palindrometodd.bsky.social Literary agent. Grotesquely optimistic. All views my own. ✨ No pitches via DM please ✨ She/her
Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Connie Kassor @ckassor.bsky.social i'm not entirely sure. 
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social Env strategist, bridge builder, ecofeminist, Himalayan. Working on inner + community + planetary resilience w/ faith & Indigenous leaders on environmental & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative, UW-Madison. Personal account - views are my own. She/ her.
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
Joel Bordeaux🌹জোয়েল বোর্দো @joelbordeaux.bsky.social Humanities / Social Sciences researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social "Ocean, As Much As Rain" by Tsering Woeser - published by Duke University Press OUT NOW 🌧️ https://linktr.ee/highpeakspureearth
elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social Sanskrit (and) philosophy. Permanently in beta phase. Blogging at http://elisafreschi.com and http://indianphilosophyblog.org. Articles at PhilPapers Here to learn & share
Jenn Ortegren @jennortegren.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion at Middlebury College; Hinduism, Islam in India, ethnography, gender, and class. Author of *Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism.* Most skeets sarcastic.
Alison @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
Adam S. Pearcey @adamspearcey.com PhD | Translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts | In-House lotsawa @lotsawahouse.org | https://adamspearcey.com
Oliver P Frey @padmam.bsky.social sanskrit pali researcher writer 📍🇮🇳 Pune & 🇨🇭 St. Moritz
https://brill.com/display/title/62014
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social 
Ajay Verghese @ajayverghese.bsky.social Political scientist at Middlebury College: India, religion (Hinduism), historical legacies, ethnic violence, and qualitative/mixed methods. Girl Dad x2.
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Global Affairs, and Economics (concurrent) at Notre Dame. Study representation, development, and the environment with a focus on South Asia.
http://saadgulzar.com/
Johannes Boehm @johannesmboehm.bsky.social Professor of Economics, University of Geneva & CEPR. Growth, Trade, Productivity, Organization, Environment, South Asia. https://jmboehm.github.io/
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, PhD @mchidarazvi.bsky.social Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
Justin Whitaker @justinwhitaker.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Buddhistdoor Global (BDG); PhD in Buddhist ethics from U London, writer on Pali Buddhism and interfaith dialogue
Trine Brox @trineb.bsky.social 
Frederik Schröer @frederikschroeer.bsky.social Historian of Emotions in Buddhism, India, Tibet; Environmental History; History of Concepts. 🏳️🌈
Kate Hartmann @kateahart.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming | PhD Harvard 2020 | drkatehartmann.com for research and teaching, strava for running and mtb
Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Bollywood & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
Joy Brennan @joybrennan.bsky.social Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
Alice Casalini @alicecasalini.bsky.social Art Historian at UChicago | Buddhist Art of Gandhāra, Northern India, and Western China | Visual Artist | Cat Connoisseur 
𝖫𝗂𝗅 𝗉𝗋𝖺𝗄𝖺𝗌𝗁 𝖢𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖽 @lilprakash.bsky.social 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵
𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘪 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 & 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦
𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 & 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮
https://www.youtube.com/@sajhathalo
Jan Brunson @janbrunson.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology | Fulbright Scholar in Nepal | Editing @ SS&M | Studying discourses on maternal health & population in global souths | Nepal | views do not represent employer
janbrunsonphd.com
Tara Ballav Adhikari, PhD @tbadhikari.bsky.social Public Health Researcher at Aarhus University(@au.dk), Denmark | Posts #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #NCDs #ClimateChange #COPD #LungHealth, and occasionally #Nepal #Politics #Cricket & #Football
Nepal🇳🇵🔄 Denmark🇩🇰
Hanna Geschewski @hannageschewski.bsky.social PhD researcher in Human Geography @cmi.no / University of Bergen. Displacement, migration and socio-environmental changes in the (rural) Himalayas and South Asia. cmi.no/staff/hanna-geschewski
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
Gregory M. Clines, PhD @gregoryclines.bsky.social South Asian Religions, Jain Studies, Sanskrit Literature. Assistant professor Trinity University.
Dr. Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi @indianoceanworld.bsky.social Asst Prof of History at @NYUAD | PhD @Princeton |🎙Hosting the #IndianOceanWorld Podcast| أستاذ مساعد في قسم التاريخ بجامعة نيويورك أبوظبي
Deepthi Murali @deepthimurali.bsky.social Art Historian, Digital History, Things, Kerala, Indian Ocean World, Monsoons
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Anand Vaidya @anandvaidya.bsky.social Anthropologist at Reed College. Author of Future of the Forest (Cornell 2025). Environment, law, politics, labor, India.
C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social UKRI FLF ǀ Remote sensing ǀ Natural hazards ǀ Glacial Lakes ǀ Glaciers ǀ Himalaya ǀ Nepal ǀ http://glacial-lake-observatory.org
Nia Deliana @nidel.bsky.social Researching coloniality, race and global order across the Indian Ocean
IR, politics, and history
https://niadeliana.com/
Deepak Adhikari @deepakadk.bsky.social Collector of anecdotes, teller of tales and interpreter of social maladies.
Freelance Journalist | Former Editor: South Asia Check | Former reporter: AFP, Anadolu Agency, DPA | Fact-checking and OSINT | https://muckrack.com/DeepakAdk
Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social ‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
Madhura Balasubramaniam @madhurab.bsky.social PhD scholar | State-making at Indo-Tibetan Borderlands | Contributes to Tibetscapes | Excited by paperwork & puppies 🐶🐾
Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social Covering climate crisis in the Himalaya & South Asia.
Journalist / Photographer / Documentary Filmmaker
📍Nepal/India
Words/images/film in Guardian, Nature, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Al Jazeera, SCMP etc. Portfolio at https://neelima.contently.com
Kerry Lucinda Brown, PhD @kerrylucinda.bsky.social Specialist in South Asian & Himalayan art (Nepalese and Buddhist visual culture), promoting engagement with global art histories through innovative teaching and research. Associate Chair, Art History, SCAD - Savannah. https://bio.site/KerryLucindaBrown
Mario I Aguilar @profmarioaguilar.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Politics, Director of Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland History of India, Tibet, Hinduism, Buddhism, Interfaith Dialogue, hermit. The Lord of the Rings
Rana Safvi @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
Navneet Khan @imkhannavneet.bsky.social PhD Scholar AIS, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Ethnic Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan and South Asia, IR.
Amrita @amrita.bsky.social Writer trying to build things; mental health advocate, India person and dweller.
New-ish (still shiny) newsletter will be here http://amritatripathi.ghost.io
Angana Chakrabarti @anganack.bsky.social Shifting Democracies Fellow at Global Press (primarily focusing on the Northeast region of India)
Niha Masih @nihamasih.bsky.social Journalist, The Washington Post
Peter O'Brien @pobjourno.bsky.social France 24 journalist and broadcaster
Presenting Tech 24 every Sunday at 3.10pm CET
pobrien@france24.com
Pallabi Munsi @pallabimunsi.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, CNN. Previously: Asia Reporter, CNN As Equals. DEL-CCU girl at heart; in London.
Email: pallabi.munsi@cnn.com
DM for Signal.
Ian Wilson @iwilson69.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies, Principal Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch Uni. ISEAS Fellow. Research urban social movements in SEA, Indonesian democracy/authoritarianism, intersections of crime, violence & politics
Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Agrarian studies, politics, history.
Gopal Sathe @gopalsathe.bsky.social Was a reporter, now I work with spreadsheets • Audience at Context.news • I like cats, comics, and cookies 
Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social Associate Prof, American U. Critical geographer writing on caste, race, and planetary ecologies.
Swati Chawla, Ph.D. @swatichawla.bsky.social Historian (Himalaya, migration, Buddhisms, DH); Associate Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, via @scholarslab.bsky.social, UVa History, and Sacred Writes.
amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social Academic, writer, and researcher of postcolonial nature. Ex @LeverhulmeTrust @KLIAustria @IJURResearch & @tatatrusts scholar. Imprints @ The Economist, The Independent, Places Journal. #water #STS #politicalecology
https://muckrack.com/amitangshu-acharya
@amrutabyatnal @amrutabyatnal.bsky.social London-based journalist. Asia Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation https://www.context.news/ covering global inequality, climate and tech.
📧: byatnalamruta@gmail.com
Khalid Shah @khalidshah.bsky.social India and South Asia Analyst at a global risk consultancy.
Previously:
> Associate Fellow - Strategic Studies, Observer Research Foundation.
> Broadcast journalist and commentator.
Based in Istanbul but my home is in Kashmir.
FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social Book devourer & reviewer. Archivist. Occasional crafter. Edinburgh 🏴
franmcbookface@gmail.com
📖 Fulvia📱The Society of Unknowable Objects 🎧 There are Rivers in the Sky
https://linktr.ee/franmcbookface
💙📚
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social Canadian Librarian, basket of feelings, east coast ennui. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🫐
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) 📗 NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: OUT NOW. Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime.
https://linktr.ee/davidhheadley
Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties.bsky.social CHOOSE LOVE. 
Louise Mangos @louisemangos.bsky.social Author of suspense, satirical & historical novels
Stories in 20+ anthologies
MA crime writing UEA
Wild swimmer
Skate skier
Cyclist
Fizz drinker
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author - The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls (Netflix), The Drift and The Gathering. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. Disturbingly cheery. Serenity Falls out Sept 10, 2026!
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Sam Baker @theothersambaker.bsky.social One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash