India

'Miss Coelho, English Teacher' was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.    

Sitting cross-legged with hands folded in prayer, her head bowed in deep reverence, I watch my grandmother chant inaudible verses…

A Portrait of South Asian Beauticians in Houston

'An Insane Story' was longlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

A Meeting of Accidental Activists

'The Divine Pregnancy in a Twelve-Year-Old Woman' won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia. Read more about the…

In the summer of 2014 a panel discussion titled “Partitioned Voices, Divided Tongues?” held in Delhi, invited the panellists to…

My earliest memory of my father was the red stains on his mouth from the famous Bolti Bandh Paan of…

Everyone has a letter and a number attached to them. The H-4 housewives wear canvas shoes and take brisk walks…

I will be twelve next month, but I don’t think we are ever going to celebrate my birthday again. Things…

A lone shaft of afternoon light filters into the cavernous church hall. Today, the light reveals a glint of joy…

In the first quarter of 2016, India recorded a 3.5 per cent growth in foreign tourist arrivals – over 250,000…

When we end up living, commuting, working and interacting largely with people from similar backgrounds as ourselves, and when our…

Let me begin with this apartment, where a grocery store and six people are all crammed into 400 square feet…

I live in Thalassery, a former British port town on Malabar Coast of Kerala. I am driving a twenty-minute journey…

I am reading a book about circus life. The author is a Japanese man who fell in love with a…