Ignoring Kurt Vonnegut and Writing About Writing Anyway.
On a day that I felt like giving it my all, I started with this entry in my journal: I don’t have the discipline to finish a thought, let...
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- Feb 14, 2023
- 5 min
Cherry Trees.
Some days my mother would be waiting in the balcony for us in tight pants and a tight v-necked t-shirt. On those days we'd know she'd met...
- Jan 26, 2023
- 2 min
Vishnu, Inevitably.
Vishnu's mother looked up at him with her ocean-blue eyes. Eyes inherited from the lost tribes of Israel!, Professor Zacuto would say. He...
- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min
A Photograph, a Freight Train.
Written for FRAGMENTS OF A SPINNING ROCK: Photography by Kaushal Parikh. Wading, with eyes, with camera, through the sheer thickness of...
- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min
Arjun, In Denial.
All those summers spent sipping lemonade in Capri, St. Tropez and Monte Carlo. The winters skiing in Megeve and St Moritz. Hard-earned...
- Sep 18, 2021
- 2 min
(Yet Another) Partition Story
1947, Lahore, Pakistan. Biji, my grandmother was very pregnant with a child that would be my father, Bittu Sahgal. Bittu would be born –...
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