Sonya DuttachoudhuryIt’s 8 pm on a monsoon-y evening in Mumbai.On a fifth floor building in Juhu, a living room is filling up steadily. Book clubbers. Friends of bookclubbers. Many with snacks, like P…Apr 23, 2023Apr 23, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryConverse in verse, my mother would say, at the end of a long day, when my siblings and I drowned…Mostly, this shut us up.Apr 16, 2023Apr 16, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryIt was a promise that was fated to be broken.But conditions on the home front were extreme.Apr 13, 2023Apr 13, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryAn 18 year old who lives in Shivaji Park in Mumbai comes face to face with Crime and Punishment.Our young man reads the mesmerising story of another young man — the student Raskolnikov, driven to murder an old landlady who asks him for…Apr 10, 2023Apr 10, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryTwo weeks after the term begins, a new girl arrives.It is rumoured she has given up IIT to go to Guindy Engineering, and then given up Stanford to come here, to IIM Calcutta.Apr 5, 20231Apr 5, 20231
Sonya DuttachoudhuryPriya is pregnant.Once her baby boy is born, she will not be able to make it to the bookclub.Apr 4, 2023Apr 4, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryMy friendship with Sonal began with a murder.I knew her distantly. As an editor at the Sunday Review, she sought stories from freelancers like me. Later, she moved to Midday, and then…Apr 3, 2023Apr 3, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryIt’s been two months since the book club began.Has it lasted? In a busy city like Mumbai?Apr 2, 2023Apr 2, 2023
Sonya DuttachoudhuryIt’s everything I want, three little girls, under the age of 10.Days chockful of childish chatter, baby baths with bubbles and plastic ducks, and bedtime cuddles with bowls full of mush. Plus they’re…Apr 1, 20231Apr 1, 20231