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
India, Jan. 11 -- Dear Reader, A Sunday morning in January, with the feel of winter in the salty sea air. We sit in a rooftop coffee shop on the Arabian Sea. Above us, planes fly by. And pigeons too.... Read More
India, Jan. 4 -- Dear Reader, How do you manage your greatest resource - the gift of attention? How do you decide what books to read and which ones to give a pass to? In this first week of the new y... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- The Juhu Book Club in Azerbaijan Dear Reader, The Juhu Book Club turns twenty-one this year. Much like the protagonist of any good story, the book club shape- shifts. Readers come... Read More
India, Dec. 21 -- Dear Reader, It is the second evening of a writing masterclass, and Alexandra Pringle and I are sitting by a pool at Jnane Tamsna, talking under an African sky strewn with stars. So... Read More
India, Dec. 14 -- Dear Reader, Today I want to brag about reading 150 books a year. In the age of book lists, where everyone from Bill Gates to Barack Obama is publishing their reading, it seems lik... Read More