Published inContemplating Urban MattersHow the pandemic made me appreciate my neighbourhoodI live in CityPlace, a neighbourhood in the Fort York area in Toronto, Canada. With its steely highrises and uncozy streets, I wasn’t a…Jan 11, 2021Jan 11, 2021
Published inPatient CaterpillarAn Unexpected Identity Crisis and A Few Other ThingsI’ve been living outside India for almost a decade now. I left India for the first time in 2011 when I went to the Netherlands to study. I…May 15, 2020May 15, 2020
Published inContemplating Urban MattersHow Toronto Programs its Public Spaces in WinterWinter is here. This is my second one in Canada. I won’t complain much about it (touchwood!) but I got to say for the most part, its more…Jan 29, 2018Jan 29, 2018
Published inContemplating Urban MattersReblog: Building Social Capital Through Bottom-Up Urbanism in AthensThis one came to me as a volunteer assignment from Laneway Project, a nonprofit organisation in Toronto that works to convert laneways to…Aug 28, 2017Aug 28, 2017
Published inContemplating Urban MattersReblog: The (For)ever Green Brick WorksEver since I got to Toronto, the Evergreen Brick Works was in my husband’s ‘to-show-Jiya’ list. And when we finally made the trip up there…Aug 28, 2017Aug 28, 2017
Published inPatient CaterpillarIncy Wincy Rosa: A Short StoryI have to get this done by morning, she muttered to herself. She never liked starting the day without breakfast. Only if the kid across the…Aug 9, 2017Aug 9, 2017
Published inContemplating Urban MattersHow the Biennale Opened up the Warehouses of Colonial CochinMy earliest memories of Mattancherry or Fort Kochi would easily be the weekend trips my family made to get Kaayikka’s biriyani. We would…Apr 25, 20171Apr 25, 20171
Published inContemplating Urban MattersCase for Change: The Walk to the Waterfront in TorontoLake Ontario in Toronto has unknowingly become an important part of my everyday life. I can see it from our apartment albeit between the…Apr 1, 2017Apr 1, 2017
