The Open Dosa - Consuming the Ordinary Differently

Documenting Spaces with RP Amudhan

Vignesh Kumaraguru28th July 202028th July 2020

RP Amudhan at the conference, Writing Worlds, Worlds Writing. Image: JJK, @mad_solo_traveller In March 2020, documentary filmmaker, RP Amudhan conducted a workshop called 'Frames of Reference', as part of the...

Falling in ‘Ishq-wala’ Love

Purvi Puranik24th July 202027th July 2020

Student of the Year released in the month of October, also the month of mid term holidays. I started pestering my mother to take me to a multiplex in Belgaum,...

“It all comes back”: On Reading Joan Didion

Amelia David7th July 20207th July 2020

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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Macha, Maga, Maams: My kind of Quarantine

Eshwari R8th June 20208th June 2020

I live in a locality where Macha, Maga, Maams are used instead of dude, pal, bro. And because I am always at home now, Amma’s “Yelle idhya, Yavagle barthiya?” seems to have disappeared.

A Medley with Rupee 1

Hema M.A.7th June 20207th June 2020

This essay won the Barbra Naidu Memorial Prize for Personal Essay 2020 in the open category. The theme was Making Do. The judge, noted writer and journalist, Samanth Subramanian has...

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“Maybe because I wanted to”

Vineet Correa6th June 20206th June 2020

Nothing was familiar outside the house. The sun glared, and scolded me for not seeing him in so long. My eyes ached and squinted. Before they could adjust to the...

The Day We Made Water Fly

Aditi Kumar29th May 202029th May 2020

Ajji used to make everything a game. The most fun one I can remember is changing the piece of plastic stuck over the stitches on her stomach, so that they...

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Slaps hard? Not yet

Nikhita Thomas3rd May 20203rd May 2020

Surely, Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad has very little to do with the thappad itself? The film brings to us Amu or Amrita (Taapsee Pannu) who dreams of a house with blue...