Known Turf

Imagine then, my perplexity when I found myself trudging from hotel to hotel, baggage in tow, and my friend refusing to check in anywhere. T...

Once upon a time, I was judgmental about selfies. From film stars to your third cousin, everyone was pouting, clicking, and uploading selfie...

Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales (Aleph 2023) is just out. This is a new edition of Known Turf (2010), with a fresh Introduction...

Eight years ago, I had my first essay accepted in the Griffith Review. ' Embodying Venus ' was a meditation on women's bodies an...

If a government is driven by the need to secure majority mandates, what incentives does it have to secure minority rights? In fact, if all i...

I had intended to do this around the new year but better late than never. I have been thinking about unpaid labours of love, art and so on. ...

"We are reminded that the author’s voice, shining through the telling, illuminating the prose, is what keeps the novel vital and alive....

I've written recently about my struggles with Facebook, its 'security' viz logins, and it restricting me from commenting on post...

Something odd has been happening with Facebook/Meta for me. Since I've not given FB permission to take all 'cookies', and since ...

  A nkhon  dekhi , a Hindi phrase referring to an event that one has personally witnessed, was adopted as the title for a 2013 film where Ba...