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Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 ✓

@nilanjanaroy · New Delhi · joined 28 Apr 2009

📚💃🏽 | Otter of books | Black River | The Wildings | The Hundred Names of Darkness | Columnist, @FTWeekend | (Opinions personal) Rep'd by @DGALitAgents

216 834Followers
1 876Following
8 864Posts total
39.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Rollo Romig on what he learned from Gauri Lankesh: "She rejected the framework of the neutral journalist, saying “All of us have biases. I’m through with apologising for having an agenda. I believe in communal harmony and I shouldn’t be ashamed to say it just because I’m a https 442 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Delhi voters — read this. 🗳️ #SIR 791 views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
🚨 DELHI SIR 2025–26 : PRELIMINARY REPORT 4,756,722 electors excluded. One in three on the Delhi roll. All 14,947 polling parts read - analysis by @sabirahamedgd, @Souptik_H and @Ashin_econ ▪️ 94% of exclusions are living voters. Death accounts for just 5.9%. The rest were http 5.3K views · 94 likes · 62 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
"I never had to face this kind of censorship attempt at any stage. If you have evidence, then you must tell the story. If you are not telling the story, you are doing a disservice to society." https://t.co/MbY32cz4wX 9.1K views · 43 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
The extremely distinguished bookshelf of Formerly-🐧 Books is growing... Belonging, by Sonia Gandhi (@HarperCollinsIN) I Am on the Hit List, by Rollo Romig (@WestlandBooks) The Once and Future Riot, by Joe Sacco (@LeftWordBooks) The OG: The Hindus, by Wendy Doniger https://t.c 9.9K views · 253 likes · 73 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
Gloria Steinem, who shaped so much of her century... 1934-2026. "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving." 2014: We walked across the Maidan in Kolkata to Victoria Memorial for the Kolkata Literary Meet. She was 80 that h 2.2K views · 86 likes · 17 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
You cannot intimidate citizens like @bismil_prasad ji. Yesterday, illegal detention by two policemen who interrupt his morning walk. Today, he offers a return gift to the most powerful: Dinkar, Faiz and a reminder that the country belongs to the people. 🔥🔥🔥 4.5K views · 150 likes · 37 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@nilanjanaroy Thank you 🙏 23 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Wendell Berry, poet, farmer, who knew what it was to truly live a life. (1934-2026) “Wonder” is a word that applies. To live and work attentively in a diverse landscape such as this one—made up of native woodlands, pastures, croplands, ponds, and streams—is to live from one h 3K views · 56 likes · 18 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Reading this generous review of Black River in @Monde_diplo with a twinge of guilt — am overdue on the companion novel! Thanks to @EditionsdelAube and my wonderful translator Benoîte Dauvergne for this. And time to get back to the page. https://t.co/5V2QqROjRi 2K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Till later, Twitter friends. The writing beckons, always an open invitation to change your horizons. 🌿🌺 https://t.co/bZVxig03Ey 2.6K views · 48 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views2 583this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.19%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.48%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post2 5835 9830.43×
Reach (views ÷ followers)1.19%1.49%0.80×
Engagement rate2.48%0.93%2.68×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.6K30 Aug
2K1 Sep
3K
23
4.5K3 Sep
2.2K
9.9K4 Sep
9.1K
5.3K
7915 Sep
442

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.94%30 Aug
0.64%1 Sep
2.49%
4.35%
4.20%3 Sep
4.86%
3.33%4 Sep
0.65%
3.13%
0.51%5 Sep
1.81%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes66.9%751 in total
Reposts20.1%226 in total
Replies1.4%16 in total
Quotes0.8%9 in total
Bookmarks10.8%121 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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Frequently asked questions about @nilanjanaroy

How many followers does @nilanjanaroy have?

216 834 followers.

How many posts has @nilanjanaroy published?

8 864 posts.

How do posts by @nilanjanaroy perform?

Collected posts: 11. Views: 39 857. Likes: 751.