The Venus Flytrap: Deactivation Drama

I feel inordinately smug when I tell people that I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. The expressions of shock that greet this statement are a testament to the social networking website’s sheer hold over contemporary living. Foraying into Internet hermitude is not just impressive, it’s downright inspiring, it seems: every time I’ve mentioned it I’ve been [...]

Reading This Saturday

Asma and Manasi have been holding poetry meets at a private residence in Chennai for a few months now, and I’m happy to tell you that I’ll be coming out of my cave  for the first time in six months for a reading this Saturday, October 3rd. I’ll be reading from new work, as well [...]

The City As Canvas

I have a long essay on the aesthetics of the city of Chennai in the current issue of Caravan magazine. Caravan is a journal of politics and culture and is available nationwide at good bookshops, and can also be read digitally here.

The Venus Flytrap: Dancing With Eyes Closed

Every day I read my cards. Every day, I draw them, decipher them, and am drawn back to them. And every day, I look up my horoscopes. For my sun sign, my rising sign, and the signs of those I care for. I read a whole bouquet – and I’m not the sort to pick [...]

Some Paintings, a Q+A, an Elephant

My childhood friend and incredibly gifted artist Michael Mata did these amazing digital paintings of me for my birthday.
And Abhimanyu Kumar Singh, who is my favourite interviewer and the kind of reader a writer lives for, did this lighthearted Q+A over lunch last week. We also played Cadaver Exquisito, which he’s reprinted in his blog [...]

Stalk Me Not

Well, Not More Than I Might Want You To (she typed, passive aggressively).
On my 100th tweet, I realised that I hadn’t mentioned it on my blog. Here.

Review: Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong (trans. Howard Goldblatt)

Published as part of The Myths series, which retells timeless classics from around the world in the words of some of the best contemporary writers, Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong recreates a two-millennia old legend from China about a woman who travels hundreds of miles in search of her husband, who has [...]

My Friend Sancho And Amit Varma In Chennai

I’ll be in conversation with Amit Varma about his debut novel, My Friend Sancho, on Monday evening. My Friend Sancho was longlisted for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. Amit Varma is a winner of the Bastiat Prize, was named one of Business Week’s 50 Most Powerful People In India, and publishes India Uncut.
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A Soundtrack For The Rainless

For everybody else stuck in shitty cities, but especially for those stuck in shitty cities with no rain. Here, respite you can replay.

Lately I’ve Been Feeling Like

my mind is the torn Rs.50 note an auto driver palmed off on you that you can’t fool any other auto driver into taking. I desperately need to lose it again.

The Venus Flytrap: Healing, Subtle As A Scar

Without going into details, I was attacked last week and left with gashes on my chest which required medical attention and an injection. They were inflicted on me at the beginning of a nightmarish evening, and I couldn’t bring myself to look at the damage for myself until the next day. What happened then surprised [...]

In TOI Today

In today’s Times of India Chennai edition anniversary supplement — here.
This was a surprise (and my name is misspelt!!); am told it’s a condensed version of an interview that ran a few weeks ago, which I haven’t seen yet.

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