Known Turf

I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the first one. She was sho...

At 57 kilos, Sandeep Tomar is one of the slighter athletes in the akhada, but has earned respect by throwing Commonwealth Games gold medal...

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

Missing Person Report When you went missing, Nilofer, we didn't think we had anything to do with it. We thought of accident, ra...

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...

December 2012. India woke up to the shock of sexual assault that was so violent, it turned our collective stomach. For a while, our outrag...

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...

देश प्रेम पे ध्यान - १. पुर्ज़ा-पुर्ज़ा कोई बेचना चाहे, बेच सकता है - इंसान का समय, उसका ख़ून, उसकी आँखे, गुर्दा, गर्भ, यहाँ तक की उसका दिल...

पुर्ज़ा-पुर्ज़ा कोई बेचना चाहे, बेच सकता है - इंसान का समय, उसका ख़ून, उसकी आँखे, गुर्दा, गर्भ, यहाँ तक की उसका दिल. सब बिकता है, या छीना जा स...

First of all, Bharat Mata ki Jai. Offering to put a bullet into them, hanging, beating them to death - this is not how we deal with ...

कल अख़बार देख कर मेरी माँ ने कहा, अगर शनी मंदिर में औरतों को जाने की इजाज़त नहीं है, तो ना जाएँ। क्या फ़र्क़ पड़ता है? एक पल को मैंने भी सोचा,...

I made a documentary film last year. Here's a link to the trailer: Here's a piece about it in The Hindu : “This film is no...

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...