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Here's something I wrote about my great discomfort with the state having absolute access to my data with zero accountability or guarant...

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...

Wrote a review of the novel 'Kalkatta' for Mint recently. Here's a bit that lays out some of my impressions: Each character ...

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...

नये साल की पहली सुबह में एक चौराहे के टिकोण पे बैठे हैं चार आदमी और पाँचवा खड़ा है, हाथों में अख़बार यूँ लिए जैसे वक़्त की चादर ओढ़ने जा रहा हो...

The Delhi state government led by Arvind Kejriwal has come up with a plan to reduce traffic congestion and ease the air pollution - it will...

A piece in which I'm chewing on the idea of 'jungle raj' or the law of the jungle, how and when it applies depends on what kind...

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

Extract from a recent letter to Uddhav Thackeray : A group of Indians had been invited to participate in a social media summit. Report...

BBCHindi.com पे छपा एक और लेख :  महाराष्ट्रा में डाँस बार लौटने की संभावना लौट आई है . सुप्रीम कोर्ट का आदेश है की बार ...

An extract from a short piece on what Karbala stands for (in my mind) and how the observance of Moharram remains relevant (that is, if we...

 हिंदुस्तानी महिला, काम और काम की मज़दूरी पे लिखा ये लेख ज़रूर पढ़िए। टिप्पणी करना ज़रूरी नहीं : http://www.bbc.com/hindi/india/2015/10/15100...

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 ...

 पहली बार हिंदी में कुछ लिखा। किसी और ने अनुवाद नहीं किया, ख़ुद लिखा, तो अपनी ही पीठ थपथपाने का जी चाहता है।  पहले हिम्मत नहीं पड़ती थी।  आख़ि...

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...

What does it mean to say that I am an Indian woman? I am a female citizen of a nation that came into being in the year 1947 AD and gave itse...

I'm very pleased to be included in the latest issue of Griffith Review . 'Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now  showcases outstanding...

Here are some reviews of the anthology I have edited: 'Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women's Writing' (Aleph, 2015) " Z...

I, coming from Mumbai, was marveling at something else. We could get into trains in a civil fashion! There were announcements asking passen...

On marital norms in India, and what the mainstream will not acknowledge : Is it a "good" custom? A bad one? I cannot say. Wh...