India

Singh sat on the bench on Platform Three at Amritsar Junction. Nine years of waiting had carved his outline into…

This suite of essays, brought together by the Commonwealth Foundation, gathers four voices from four islands—each drawn, in their own…

We all love to drink chai, but not the same kind and not the same amount. For instance, Auntie can’t…

Two people dominated our lives, and I hadn’t met either of them: my father, who deserted my mother barely a…

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I bring her to meet you   when I'm sure no one else is coming.  Still, I scan the scrawls in…

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I    I was created in lieu of a debt / in lieu of a life spent in the fields…

I am to be a mother this weekend. The assignment came through when I was dusting the house earlier. It’s…

When I stepped out of our home to move to the new school in the city and choked on the…

Paro and Manju, bosom friends, had a common love interest: Shahrukh Khan. The epiphany of their love happened as they…

Gautam, of course, was prepared for the pandemic before it even hit. He had become increasingly taken with alternative medicine…

A young woman asked a lady in her early fifties, reading the Bhagwad Gita on a bench, how she was.…

ma rubs asafoetida and ginger oil on Dida’s mushroom belly   her voice a needle on the record of an…

The usual beeps and toots emanated from the Boyle’s apparatus, the machine delivering anaesthesia which was at the head of…