She still does not smile
There is no warmth about her, in her sharp elbows, the way her hair stays out of her face, how she does not smile.
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Black Magicking Ragi Muddes
It all began when we were served Ragi mudde for lunch at my aunt’s place during Dasara. Even though my family was not a fan of mudde, some of us ate it without questioning. We were told we could have rice after eating the mudde. But my grandfather who was hesitant to eat the mudde, picked the smallest piece possible, dipped it into the curry repeatedly as if he was demanding the curry to mask the mudde.
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Hindi, Tinkle & Butler English
I don’t hate any language, it’s always been fun to learn and speak different languages. I also believe that languages
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Do Nisha Susan and I know the same people?
In her stories, Nisha explores the faceless residents of the online world. These characters are like our parents. Occasionally, it strikes us that they’re not so great people but they continue remaining good people or even tolerable people simply because we are forced to know them beyond their prejudices.
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On learning what it takes to live, to write
I still wonder how my parents made ends meet, without disappointing us. Few months ago, my mother revealed that she would try not to pay the ticket price in the bus, so that she could save it for the next day. Yet she took me to Pizza Hut, and sat there while I ate away.
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Documenting Spaces with RP Amudhan
RP Amudhan at the conference, Writing Worlds, Worlds Writing. Image: JJK, @mad_solo_traveller In March 2020, documentary filmmaker, RP Amudhan conducted
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Falling in ‘Ishq-wala’ Love
Student of the Year released in the month of October, also the month of mid term holidays. I started pestering
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“It all comes back”: On Reading Joan Didion
Self-respect is not a gift or an object that can be bought or given to us by anybody else, but a routine that must be practised in order for it to become something that we end up giving and gifting ourselves.
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