Year: 2022
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Stories, Stories From Aligarh
Stories From Aligarh Part II – Sadar Bazaar, Mathematics and Zeenat Brothers

I’ve loved Delhi, ever since I started studying history in middle school. Its culture, its history, the small noisy haunts with its plethora of fragrances and smells and the hidden ones no one knows about. But being the blunt rather acerbic person I am, I tend to call a spade a spade, and I have […]

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Stories
Leelanoor

In 2016 I had the pleasure of watching the most beautiful bharatnatyam performance choreographed and conceptualized by my guru Jyotsna Shourie. This story was inspired by her show which explored the rise and fall of the Devadasi tradition. This story is dedicated to her…      ***   There’s a river in the south where […]

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Book Reviews
Three Kisses One Midnight – A Review

What a sweet read this was! Honestly, at this point, anything Roshani Chokshi writes is like a drug to me. She could be writing her grocery list and I would pick it up. Three Kisses One Midnight penned by Roshani Chokshi, Sandhya Menon and Evelyn Skye is a lovely little read about three friends in […]

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Book Reviews
Together We Burn – A Review

Isabel Ibañez has become one of my instant-buy authors. One of the things I love about her books is how much of her own culture and history she manages to infuse them her stories. She does the same with Together We Burn, bringing to the forefront, in a fantasy book filled with dragons and romance, […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Ya Amar

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Saudade

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Quainaat

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Opia

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Magoa

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]

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Dictionary of Affections, Poetry
Lacuna

If there is one language common to the world, it is the language of affection. Attractions swells, sex sells, motherhood tears the body apart, nostalgia seeps into the soul, heartbreak reverberates in the thrum of our blood as humans continue to love and lose. I’ve been trying to encapsulate those affections that different languages across […]