The Babu, the Akhond and me
… are finally in the same place. Kitabkhana began in early 2003, back when people called the Internet the “information superhighway”. (The past is so much more glamorous than […]
Category Archives: Journal
The Gospel of Twitter, In Seven Tweets
1) In The Beginning Was The Tweet, And The Tweet Was With God, And The Tweet Was God. 2) Thou Shalt Worship Only The God Of Twitter, Putting Aside […]
Delhi’s parks, and lost trees
This is such a Delhi story. MCD workers came in this morning to trim branches from the trees in the C-Block park, Jangpura. They were also supposed to cut down […]
Our bodies, ourselves
For ten years, I wrote on gender issues (in the Kolkata Telegraph and then the International Herald Tribune), without feeling the need to share my story. It was bad […]
The Hundred Names…
Pictures at an Exhibition
(Wrote this for my journal, and then Newslaundry asked if they could have it. Published in Newslaundry, 7th February, 2013) This is what it came down to, the Voice of […]
Speaking Volumes: Freedom For The Thought We Hate
(A shorter version of this was published in the Business Standard, 4th February, 2013. This is only a brief and partial look at some judgements on free speech and artistic […]
Kolkata: booksbooksbooks
Lost and found
(Disclaimer: I am not a poet and don’t write poems. This was an accident from 2006; Peter Griffin reminded me yesterday of its existence. It does not scan, and it […]
Warning: contains sex, violence and Honey Singh
(If you’re offended by explicit language and lyrics, please don’t read further. Thanks.) If there’s one principle Honey Singh illustrates, it’s the impossibility of having a nuanced argument on Twitter, […]
