A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
He narrowed his blindgreen eyes and asked in a slygreen whisper… Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf), published 20 years after her first beloved debut, The God[…]
If you Google Delhi stories, you get spooky tales — lists upon lists of haunted spaces in the city that are meant for the “daredevil dildaar sorts,” and definitely not[…]
Pithas in Barahipur Earlier this year, I visited Bangladesh. They somehow manage to squeeze half the population of the entire US into a country the size of New York state.[…]
I grew up in a desert country, Oman, where I would pretend that the flowers I saw in gardens were primroses I read about in Enid Blyton novels; when leaves[…]
It is spring in Delhi. I see a tree top feathered with pink flowers from my window; the other day, a rain-storm neatly plucked the flowers from the tree and[…]
Drop everything and listen to Usha Uthup’s cover of Skyfall: The legendary Indian singer Usha Uthup was one of the speakers featured at the Ink2013 conference at Kerala last month[…]
It always happens like this. A snow storm. A rain storm. An inept travel agent. I can never seem to get overseas in a timely, relatively painless manner. Lexy and[…]
No rupees for an auto-rickshaw ride. No debit card to withdraw cash. No conceivable way to walk to my guesthouse. No iPhone with which to Google a solution. No family[…]
