Raw Mango Words

New Delhi, India. 2019

I didn’t know what to do, so I asked Nithila. She said it was too much for a voice…

Awareness in the Eyebrow Centre

She used to eat Upma. My first yoga teacher. And she used to eat it in class. With this really passive, resigned expression as though it had no salt in it but what the hell, that was the state of her life anyway. I think her name was Janini but the truth is that all I…

Friendshipping philosophy

10 Things I Hate About Me is a book by Randa Abdel-fattah in which a teenage girl named Jamilah gets an email from…

Return of the Novum

The straps tensed. Shehnaz Tanaka dropped into a crouch. Her shoulder blades…

Who are we reading?

Week Four: The Hindu

Who are we reading?

Week One: The Times Of India

As a kid when I opened the door every morning to collect the newspaper, I’d stare at the TOI on my neighbour’s doormat and lust after their wonderfully satisfying Page Three, before drearily picking up The Hindu from…

Who Are We Reading?

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Jayalalithaa: Welfare vs Power

My distant uncle has a collection of 1003 Ganeshas in his house. Statues, pictures, little ones made of clay, larger ones made of glass, some carved in wood, others staring out of calendars. He also holds, if I remember correctly, the Limca record for having the most number…