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A Brief History of Arguments in Favour of Free Public Transit for Women
A Brief History of Arguments in Favour of Free Public Transit for Women
(Originally published on The Third Eye portal)
Shalom Gauri
Mar 3, 2022
Fuel for the Fire
Fuel for the Fire
Inside the Community Kitchen of Shaheen Bagh
Shalom Gauri
Jan 27, 2020
Raw Mango Words
Raw Mango Words
New Delhi, India 2019
Shalom Gauri
Oct 23, 2019
Friendshipping philosophy
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 a mysterious someone…
Shalom Gauri
Jun 27, 2018
Return of the Novum
Return of the Novum
The straps tensed. Shehnaz Tanaka dropped into a crouch. Her shoulder blades raised above her spine, lifting her thin jacket off her back…
Shalom Gauri
Apr 5, 2020
An Open Letter To Jim Lee*
An Open Letter To Jim Lee*
(Originally published on TheLadiesFinger)
Shalom Gauri
Jun 17, 2016
From Jayalalithaa To Amma
From Jayalalithaa To Amma
Just a while ago, I watched Mani Ratnam’s movie Iruvar in which MohanLal and Aishwarya Rai play MGR and Jayalalithaa. Before you read the…
Shalom Gauri
Dec 18, 2016
What Rashtrabhasha?
What Rashtrabhasha?
Once upon a time, in an India still fresh from independence, there lived a freedom fighter by the name of E.V. Ramaswamy or simply…
Shalom Gauri
Dec 18, 2016
Jayalalithaa: Welfare vs Power
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…
Shalom Gauri
Jan 6, 2017
Meanwhile in digital news
Meanwhile in digital news
“Bro, I don’t even read news.” “Ay da, even if I did, The Times of India is cheaper than your journal thing.” “What’s so great about your…
Shalom Gauri
Nov 6, 2017
Week Four: The Hindu
Week Four: The Hindu
One of the hardest things about researching a story, is deciding how far back to go. When I sat down to begin this series, my plan was to…
Shalom Gauri
Aug 15, 2017
Week Three: Hindustan Times
Week Three: Hindustan Times
If Ramnath Goenka was the big name behind The Indian Express, the one behind the Hindustan Times is Shobhana Bhartia. The first ever woman…
Shalom Gauri
Aug 6, 2017
Week Two: Indian Express
Week Two: Indian Express
If you found the TOI’s profit driven approach to journalism disheartening, here’s a newspaper with a truly dramatic, “We stand by the…
Shalom Gauri
Jul 28, 2017
Week One: The Times Of India
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…
Shalom Gauri
Jul 20, 2017
Trekking In Kashmir
Trekking In Kashmir
If this were an introduction to a typical I.C.S.E Hindi essay on Kashmir, it would have had to begin “Kashmir bharat ka swarg mana jata…
Shalom Gauri
Oct 9, 2013
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