The first and only foster dog my family ever owned came into our lives in November 2013. He left just as abruptly in March the following year. I was sixteen at the time. That afternoon, I had finished a late-afternoon chat with friends in the school canteen, lamenting the necessity…

I remember watching my first Bollywood movie when I was eleven and my sister brought home a DVD of 3 Idiots. What followed was an extravaganza of rousing musical numbers and colourful characters that made me get up and dance along to the movie’s signature song, “Aal Izz Well.” Beyond…

Whenever any Singaporean asks me where I live, I usually say ‘Ghim Moh.’ ‘Ghim Moh’ is actually the name of a housing estate a few streets away from where I live. Yet over the ten years I’ve lived in my current neighbourhood, the Ghim Moh hawker center and market have…