Writing About Writing
To you, If you and I have made plans at any point in time you’ve probably heard the refrain “I have some writing to finish” or “I have a deadline” multiple times. You’re also probably t...
9 Years Ago
On a Street Art Trail in Colombo
A man (Gihan, he tells me his name later) catches sight of me surveying a stencil of a smiling child sandwiched between a photocopy shop and a dilapidated building on Dawson Street, and signals fro…...
10 Years Ago
Memory, History
(Written a few months ago, posting now. Fervently hoping this has lost its relevance.) * New Delhi, June 2013. To you, I’m not sure when it happened but Running in the Family has become one of my ...
11 Years Ago
Notes from Delhi: Red Lights
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11 Years Ago
Notes from Delhi: Places and Spaces
July 2013, Delhi To you, It’s finally happened. I’ve put down roots. They’re hesitant, frail tendrils with a propensity to wither at the slightest provocation but they’ve been planted. After n...
11 Years Ago
Jaipur Lit Fest - Vignettes
Heavily pencilled-schedule in hand and books in backpack, I walk past the lines of people waiting to greet his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and navigate past the formidable bodyguards (a new additi…...
11 Years Ago