Reviews
Can simplicity and innocence of love help us survive the real world?
A question I returned to after watching Laapataa Ladies
culture writing
Roots
What’s common between a bowl of zarda, a ginger cat and hot jalebis?
Scenes from a Republic Day weekend
culture writing
The radical need for friends to become informed safe spaces
Hey everyone, thank you for being a reader and subscriber to my newsletter this year. The idea for this newsletter has mostly been to untangle questions and dilemmas that emerge through the very act of being. In some ways, this newsletter has turned into a garden of sorts, which I
Essays
To mother (or not, now, how)
Conversations amongst women across all generations must encompass every possibility and definition of motherhood
Poetry
Feeling the first of the many seasons of a poetry journey
A look at the year that has come with exciting collaborations, new learnings and letting go of old systems
Reviews
Calling out shame in a 'log kya kahenge' society
Lessons from Ismat Chughtai, Devdas' Chandramukhi and Dahaad TV Series
history
Learning to knock on doors, literally and figuratively
And the difference between being an 'independent' and a 'freelancer' writer
Roots
The Adulthood Jig is Up!
Dancing for no reason as a gateway to inviting our child-like selves