manzibarrWhat Women Want: In ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar’* (Or Anywhere) It Doesn’t Matter.*Spoilers unintentional but likely.Mar 12, 20232Mar 12, 20232
manzibarrOn being 46There are many wonderful and deeply insightful pieces about decadal birthdays especially about turning 40 or 50. But no one writes about…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
manzibarrMI6 (or, If my sixth grader were to write a Mother’s Day essay)My mother has eyes at the back of her head. She says she was not born with it. If she had been born with it, maybe she would have seen the…Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
manzibarr5 reasons why 2019 was a good reading year.I closed last year having read an embarrassing tally of 12 books. Several read at a crawl, or like a bored teenager. It felt like I’d lost…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
manzibarrWhen Four Friends MeetWas the name of a documentary film on male friendship that Delhi NGOs in the 1990s and 2000s loved to screen in slum communities to start…Jul 8, 2019Jul 8, 2019
manzibarrThe Pleated TunicFor days, weeks, months now I have been thinking about Payal Khandwala’s pleated tunic. It’s fabulous. There is no other word for it. I…Jan 3, 2019Jan 3, 2019
manzibarrGuess how many fox I give (Zero).I had to see what the fuss was about after all those hate tweets and snarky reviews I’ve been seeing about Zero. It was perhaps the low…Dec 30, 2018Dec 30, 2018
manzibarrArt is a place inside of youI went to a Biennale for the first time this year.Dec 15, 2018Dec 15, 2018
manzibarrFrench FriesHave you ever had this sudden, urgent, mad craving for french fries? Like I did, on rainy days when petrichor can drive you to delirium. So…Feb 17, 2017Feb 17, 2017