In Defence of Uncle

Uncle is a bad word these days. I don’t quite remember when it started, but one moment I was a child, forcing out an eloquent Namaste Uncle for my father’s friend; the next, I was listening to Faye Dsouza’s ‘Uncle, are you with us?’ As fast as that, uncle had …

Grief, Gatto Bai, The Year 2020

Grief is strange in the times of Corona. Last night, my husband’s uncle passed away. This has been the third death in my family in as many months. How do I grieve? From a distance, of course. A long distance, in my case. Most of the family, and all of …

Nature for you, Ma’am!

I was in the living room when I heard something that sounded like the vroom-vroom of a car revving. It went on …

7 Tips on How to Get Raped

It’s that time of the year when men-imals are awake again! Let’s face it ladies – physical abuse is unavoidable around here. …

No Place for the Young

Four years ago when I got married, I didn’t imagine it would change my life so drastically. There would be this slightly …

Diwali Musings

Recently my brother got engaged, and post the engagement, we all traveled to his fiancee’s quaint little home town in Jharkhand to …

Of Understanding a Joke

Today morning, on Whatsapp, I received one of those husband-wife jokes. Husband: I need one of those Diwali fire bombs. Wife: Why? …

Sirens Spell Danger

Sirens Spell Danger is my debut in the published world. It is an anthology of three crime thrillers in which the second …