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Wrestling is a sport I've gotten interested in and have been following for over a year now. I wrote two longer essays around wrestlers,...

I've often wondered how we've managed to avoid thinking about power supply. I mean, electricity. As consumers, we like to buy ever...

It is curious, this idea of who is a law-abiding person and who isn't. There is a crush of voices around me talking about how 'we...

Are you one of those people who has too many fancy clothes, and yet, never enough? Do you struggle to keep track of which outfit you wore a...

I wrote this short comic about how to deal with the loss of friends made in a virtual age, when social media delivers so much of our friend...

One of the more interesting things I did in 2015 was adapting a graphic short story for Radio with Pictures . They do a combination of anim...

Take this man, crushed cane in the city's slick machinery. Published in the Mint (Oct 24, 2015): Read the whole comic here :  htt...

So, this is the second question to ask - why care what a writer says or does? We care because writers give to a people their voice, their ...

Another graphic piece on what it means that state transport buses don't come right up to the departure gates at airports and even railw...

Haven't you wished you could escape the road traffic jams and commute in the sky instead? Do you anticipate being stuck in a 'sky j...

I've often thought about what everyday life might be like if plants could talk to us? This comic with some beautiful art by Vartika is ...

Have you never wondered what exactly goes into your food, and where it comes from, and what it does to you? What if your food actually gave...

I have a new graphic short story in this great new anthology of feminist speculative fiction  Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean .  It is targete...

This is the latest comic I wrote for the Mint . I have been thinking for a while now about the inadequacy of our secondary and sen...

As citizens and voters, we are often stumped by the glaring lack of options. There doesn't seem to be anyone 'good' around. Al...

Further musings on toilets and our shared existence as citizens, families, lovers etc. I do firmly believe that the day we all start leavi...

This is the latest script I did for The Small Picture in Mint . It comes from me missing music in public spaces, and then, chancing upon a...

This piece was written for The Small Picture on December 6, in memory of my grandfather, who left so much work unfinished, so much unsaid:...

Have often thought about sanity, the people we consider sane, and the forces that push some of us beyond - into that other place in the hea...

There is a stockpile of shared grief within each of us. It threatens to render the taste of life ash on our tongues. Each riot, every famin...