Snigdha DagarinLiterally LiteraryOn rereading as an endangered habitThere are so many books on the shelves and in our kindles that are waiting to be read. With such a wealth of options, do we still go back…Jun 29, 20201Jun 29, 20201
Snigdha DagarIn defence of wandering prose and meandering readings“ A garden is in no hurry. It says the present is important, and dismisses our insistence on the forthcoming. Unwilling — because it can’t…Jun 5, 2020Jun 5, 2020
Snigdha DagarinLiterally LiteraryBoundariesIt is true that my attention has regularly resided in the far-off place where ‘lost’ exists — a location in which pandemonium dictates and…Jan 23, 2020Jan 23, 2020
Snigdha DagarOn movingMy twenties have been sensitising me to things that I had never paid much attention to before. I have moved houses and cities so often…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Snigdha DagarinLiterally LiteraryStranger in the nightI am trying to sort through the casual sounding remarks he has made all evening, compliments littered nonchalantly like bread crumbs…Oct 3, 2019Oct 3, 2019
Snigdha DagarinLiterally LiteraryMen narrate thingsHe had found her on the library floor, in the old classics section — between Chekov and Dostoevsky, where she probably thought no one…Jul 28, 2019Jul 28, 2019
Snigdha DagarOn being a flâneuseThe last time I was wandering in a second hand book sale, I picked up one of those fancy how-to guides that have long been my guilty…Jul 17, 2019Jul 17, 2019