Tragedy is a straight line, Gajabuji never is
This essay won the Barbra Naidu Memorial Prize for the Personal Essay 2018. The theme was Friending/Unfriending. The judge, writer/translator Srinath Perur, had this to say about the...
A Dark Web hacked with the Chakravyuha
On a humid July evening, The Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan was filled with excited chatter and rickety chairs. It was time for Bengaluru’s theatre scene to get an offbeat twist...
Of what use is your revolution if you have never been in Love?
Saala jo pyaar nahi karega woh kranti kya karega? Independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani had an interesting proposition to make to his audience – “Fall in love. ...
Cheeti Cheeti Bang Bang
Who said only humans are selfish in a friendship? There is a plant named Haasige Mara which when translated to Kannada literally means ‘bed-tree ‘and it has been named aptly...
Where are they now? When was the last time you had a Post Man bringing you letters?
A day in the life of a Post Man. Mr. Gopalakrishnan N, aka Gopi, arrives at the post office by 8 am. His first task is to segregate the mail...