Rarely do women who get a chance to migrate to the US decide to come back, let alone indulge in their creative passions. But Thrissur-native Shruthi Namboodiri is one of those rare few for whom the creative possibilities in her home, Kerala, were more luring...
“In some parts of India, staying alive is perhaps more traumatic than being dead.” — Hunger’s Daughters, pg. 132 Ostensibly, Hunger’s Daughters is about India’s girl child. Her life, her sorrows, her abandonment and abuse. Her labour. On a re-read, Hunger’s Daughters is an indictment...
Apparently, actor Sathyaraj likes to cheat on his diet when his daughter Divya is not around. “I’m a bossy daughter and dad’s very scared of me, so he’ll listen to me. But the minute I leave the house, he’ll be happy to grab a burger,”...
A week into 2019, a landmark judgement in Ireland announced that psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships would be considered a crime in that country. While I know I will not live to see the day when India acknowledges emotional abuse, let alone consider...
1. How would you define yourself? I think I would define myself as fearless, something I inherited from my mother. My mother is very confident and fearless in whatever she does and I proudly take after her. 2. The first thing you do when you...
ONE look at her Instagram posts and it’s easy to figure what matters most to Rashmika Mandanna: her parents; videotaping younger sister Shiman’s antics; playing with her numerous dogs, a cat and a menagerie of birds; spending time in Coorg; and goofing around with her...
When Dr. Narthaki Nataraj talks about her lost love, loneliness and the one lasting friendship that has carried her through life, it’s in lyrical Tamil verse. Her words fall like honey drops, with the intensity of her emotions colouring her crystalline enunciations. Her narrative has...
The other day, I got on Grindr. Yes, Grindr, not Tinder. No, I’m not a gay man. Yes, I know Grindr is for gay men. But, I really wanted to know what happens in a romantic space reserved for men and just as expected, I...
Much has been said and written of Nandini Krishnan’s book Invisible Men. From calling her out on transphobic attitudes to wrongful representation to unethical reporting, her book seems to have done it all. So where can I begin this review? This book begins with a foreword...
Being born and raised in the heart of North India in the era of no internet meant many things — most of all, it meant that your exposure to the world was limited. That doesn’t necessarily mean that one is ignorant of the cultures and...
