In the End, It Wasn’t the Runs, But the Revolution he brought mattered. It was almost mid-afternoon. The kind of afternoon when the country is emerging from a war-like moment, when every eye is fixed on the screen, waiting for the armed forces to speak on the targets hit and damages inflicted. The kind of … Read more
The Spoon on the Dinner Table: A Man Unlearning Patriarchy The Spoon on the Dinner Table is an introspective essay about unlearning patriarchy in the most intimate of spaces—home. Through the quiet friction of a dinner-time moment and the influence of books like Lady Doctors, The Day I Became a Runner, and Wifedom, the narrator … Read more
A Meditation on Choice Before Choice Dissolves Prelude: Platform of Shadows This was many moons ago. The evening train from Guwahati was late. Again. And I, an untidy pilgrim of words, shuffling from one foot to the other, had time enough to count the creases on my battered paperback and the muted LEDs breathing within … Read more
Stillness Among the Shelves: 9 Reasons Why We Still Need Bookshops in the Digital Age At first light, the city yawns open like an old novel. Rusted milk vans rattle past shuttered shops. Pigeons take the air in soft explosions of grey. A bookstore, still sleeping under its corrugated awning, dreams of pages and fingerprints … Read more