Recessive Gene
Let me tell you about my recessive gene. It involves idlis, questionable pronunciations and the Great South Indian Software Dream.
Mumbai
Notes From The Surviving City – 2
My first day back in the world after two days in a shell of immediate survival. Everyone in the office had a story to tell. One of the girls left office on Tuesday and we had no news from her till late this morning. She still hasn’t managed to get…
Notes From The Surviving City
I’m home today after living through the first natural calamity in my life – the Mumbai floods of July 2005. My city drowned and floated.
Shattered By A Look: The Mirror Watcher/ Predator
A candid account of feeling violated in public spaces by a look, challenging societal norms, and the struggle for solidarity.
Monday Morning Musings In Mumbai
Bells ringing. Traffic honking. Burdens falling. Surprises galore.
Faces, faces, faces everywhere.
It’s Monday morning in Mumbai.
A Song Of colour
Main aur mera camera
Aksar yeh baatein karte hain…
Mere dono sheher are tributes to colour
Books | City | Pop Culture
A Visit To The Bookstore
A trip to the Oxford bookstore yields some cynical trends about readers and the publishing industry and ends in a befuddling find.
Urban Loneliness
A sense of rootlessness assails meHere I am, two and a half decades old…and feeling every minute of itLiving charades every dayJuggling roles and discarding masks for newer onesDoing everything right, hoping there’ll be an answer at the end. Running, running, constantly runningTo keep up with this carnival I’m a…
Observer – Mumbai Beat
Mumbai. It’s both beautiful and tragic.