Known Turf

Peoples’ political and cultural choices are directly impacted by history, or whatever little scrap of history is allowed into our narrative...

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...

"cubs are slow, fathers fast and lion mothers know that truth is the thing that prevails... " I have a new-ish poem in Kindle m...

For a minute, nothing. Then a pool of light gathered at the window across, smearing itself untidily against the grimy glass. I didn’t ...

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...

I had, on an impulse, begun to tweet a wish-list in the new year. Most of these were civic or political wishes. Am compiling them here in o...

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:...

I cannot fully express the nature of my regret at not having done this post before. I had meant to, as soon as I walked out of the hall aft...

For a while now, I have been thinking about the need for 'drama' in stories, especially scripts. It is taken for granted that for a...

Reviewed ' Alternate Realities: Love in the lives of Muslim Women ' for Time Out . Sharing the text below, with some personal addit...

A poem published in Cordite.  " Sometimes I wonder if... " Sometimes I Wonder if our whole world is a third world a st...

 ' Swiss Lace Blouse ' was the 'poem of the week' at The Missing Slate recently. One fine morning I will open my eyes. E...

I don't know if I've mentioned this booklet, published by Vikas Samvad two years ago. It is really just a reporter's diary, bu...

Here's another poem . It comes from having watched the Hindi film Ek Thi Dayan , and its sadly confused take on the subject. The idea...

Dear Jet Airways There are some things you just don't do. Such as telling a passenger who has shown up with a confirmed ticket, t...

The landscape is grim—a mix of rock and mud that yields at the slightest provocation. But the wind does extraordinary things to it, cutti...

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...

I have a new short story out. It is the story of a man who has almost nothing to live for, except the fact that a woman called Noora still ...

A few days ago, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi reportedly tweeted: “Advaniji has failed to gauge the public mood”...