India, June 14 -- Dear Reader, In the morning we carry our sketchbooks to Sabali, the coffee shop perched above the river Manalsu. The rains have stopped, the day is clear. All around us are hillside... Read More
India, May 31 -- Dear Reader, Do you find some prize-winning novels hard to read? Like One Hundred Years of Solitude? I was eighteen years old and staying in my uncle's house, taking Delhi Transport... Read More
India, May 24 -- Dear Reader, Like many writers, I have become obsessed with AI. Give me a piece of recent writing and my brain begins to whir, trying to spot the ghost in the wires. I scan text for... Read More
India, May 17 -- Dear Reader, It's early morning in the forest and I feel a tap on my arm. All around and above me are ancient deodar cedar trees, their sap-green, needle-covered branches rising a h... Read More
India, May 10 -- We are lying on a mattress in the garden, the long grass tickling our bare toes, the mountain sun warming our backs. Ahead of us, up on a deodar tree, a glossy blue-black Himalayan cr... Read More
India, May 3 -- Dear Reader, Writer and foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar opened up about grief and illness with the wit and honesty and the deeply personal journey behind her latest book Travels i... Read More
India, April 26 -- Dear Reader, Yesterday, a stranger walks into our house. A tall man with a sunburned face and heavy-set eyes, he takes off his chappals at the doorway and proceeds to walk in, casu... Read More
India, April 19 -- Dear Reader, In Manali, the light streams in early, lighting up our bedroom at 5:30 am. It's deliciously cozy under the quilt, but I think about my to-do list. Time to head downsta... Read More
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