India, April 12 -- Dear Reader, A woman full of thought comes home she places her rucksack on the dining table her bunch of keys, her laptop, her notebook she puts them down on the table. she pu... Read More
India, April 5 -- Dear Reader, "I wanted to speak at length about / the happiness of my body and the / delight of my mind, for it was / April, a night, a / full moon and - " says Mary Oliver. And th... Read More
India, March 29 -- Dear Reader, Three hours after we take off from London, the plane begins to lurch. At first, I don't notice; I am half asleep. Then the seat belt sign flashes on. I look around at... Read More
India, March 22 -- Dear Reader, At Chicago's Art Institute, sunlight pours in. It illuminates 9th century stone statues of Durga and Vishnu, Grecian urns, and along the wall, a magnificent mural enti... Read More
India, March 16 -- When Time magazine named Safeena Husain one of 16 Women of the Year 2026, she was standing outside at a Mumbai philanthropy conference, looking up at a sky so clear she could see th... Read More
India, March 1 -- Dear Reader, The road ahead of us curves steeply upwards. As the car turns, I see that an entire section of the road is broken, as if a landslide has cut away the hillside. Cement s... Read More
India, Feb. 22 -- I am in Bombay, downstairs in the garden, journaling at the wooden table. All around me, the birds cheep, chatter and squawk. Bright green parakeets take off in flight; a brown-grey ... Read More
India, Feb. 15 -- The Other Reader hasn't read a novel in nineteen years. Once he read Rushdie and Sarat Chandra under hostel tube lights, Tolkien on overnight trains, Tagore on summer afternoons in ... Read More
India, Feb. 1 -- Dear Reader, I have decided to trade my digital dopamine loops for literary plot twists. The rule is simple: every time I feel the itch to scroll through social media, I open a short... Read More
India, Jan. 25 -- Dear Reader, We almost missed our own wedding. Being young and not paranoid enough, we'd booked late. The Gitanjali Express, which was to carry us from our jobs in Bombay to our we... Read More