Speaking as someone who is often in a tussle with her own thoughts, No Straight Thing Was Ever Made verbalised some of my most profound feelings of anxiety and the helplessness and frustration that come with it. Urvashi Bahuguna’s tightly packed collection of ten essays navigates with nuance living,
The sounds that make up the title of Prateek Vats’s Eeb Allay Ooo! resonate through its length. Their most direct expression is in the deep, full-bodied croaks and high-pitched whoops of its monkey-repelling squad, assigned in New Delhi’s Raisina Hill to scare the animals away from the country’
Along With the Sun: Stories from Tamil Nadu's Black Soil Region is an anthology of 20 stories originally published in the 1980s. The brainchild of Ki. Rajanarayanan or ‘Ki. Ra’ to the writers' collective that blooms under his shade, the anthology is composed of twenty such Tamil
Sonia Filinto’s documentary Bread and Belonging explores the connections between bread in Goa, known locally as pão, and the people who make it. It kneads together themes of identity, migration, nostalgia and resilience, presenting them through three parallel stories about bread. In the first, Alzira and her family, multigenerational
Rohena Gera’s Is Love Enough? Sir opens with Ratna (Tillotama Shome) in her village home packing her bags to leave for the city to which she has been unexpectedly called back. We see her making her way to Mumbai, navigating the long road back on scooters, buses and trains,
 I received a link to this beautiful poem a few days before I was due to visit Delhi, my hometown, to spend Diwali with my family. Reading the poem transported me to my childhood and I was overcome by an urge to run
Principles of Prediction is two-time Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner Anushka Jasraj’s debut short story collection that will leave you bemused and in awe. Jasraj unpacks complex human emotions through intimate peeks into her characters’ psyches, revealing deep-seated conflicts, fears, insecurities, and passions. In 13 beautifully spun stories that
The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories (read an excerpt) is prolific writer and veteran media professional Nisha Susan's debut short story collection. The stories here are sad-funny, serious-absurd, and never predictable; they delight as often as they take you by surprise. An assortment of
This is an excerpt from The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories by Nisha Susan. Click here to read our interview with the author. This was her only romantic fantasy. One in which the man she is in love with becomes incandescent with jealousy because of a
... which is now a lovely shade of faded memories from the lockdown. At the onset of my least favourite time of the year---seasonal wardrobe change---I decided to escape to Bombay, because I’d rather pack one tiny suitcase than pack up my entire winter wardrobe into many large suitcases. Oh,