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Category: Personal
Requiem For a Lost Home: The Statesman House in Kolkata
As the iconic Statesman House in Kolkata gets turned into a mall, a veteran journalist remembers his journey through those walls.
Dowry in Kerala: ‘Congratulations on the Wedding! Which Car Are You Getting?’
The higher the groom's financial and social standing, the better the car he is expected to receive.
Accent
The author, who comes from a small village in Saurashtra, writes about the reaction to her Kathiawadi accent when she shifted to Ahmedabad for work.
A Return to Goa
I combat the heat that buffets me as soon as the train enters the Konkan coast and floats past me as a phantom would.
Transience of a Life
A little life thrived in the bounds of freedom, Free from bareness of soul, Its falsifications and deceptions, And sullenness of relations. Having flown down like a bird from …
No Way Home
A poem on how Ss many of us end up so far from home – both in a geographical and metaphorical sense.
The Moral Quandary of Home
It is funny how home changes and alters, how it forgets us when we leave but remembers us the moment we step back in.
I’ve Turned Twenty Today
A poem on the poet coming to terms with her age as she leaps from her teenage years to 'adulthood'.
Mumbai Chills
Exploring the enigma that is winters in Mumbai.