In search of a relatable world? In search of a lost world? Or in the search of the world around you?

Finding the plot of our stories Essays and Memoir

Reading Anita Desai's Rosarita in your late 20s

What would you find if you went to all the places your mother did? Would it be old friends, forsaken lovers or her?

All that we know: Beyond Our Homes and Culture

Feb 28, 20214 min read

Beyond our Content Worlds: Paulo Coelho constructs our homes and dreams in The Alchemist

“He had not perceived them because he had become accustomed to them.” The reality that we accept gives us only that many said and laid...

Feb 1, 20216 min read

Rerouting our Roots with Google Maps and Nationality: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte enters our multiple realities

There are “too many roots” to be gathered in one’s lifetime; through words, gestures, and most importantly, through the cinematic world...

Nov 18, 20205 min read

Guiding through my own culture - Iyer's eccentric guide to Japan.

In Japan, girls dress alike to fit in. This is one of the many cultural observations that Iyer makes which makes me wonder in turn — when...

Dec 13, 20205 min read

World in a Room of Our Own : Woolf’s Glass Window to Pronouns

Rerouting our Roots with Google Maps and Nationality: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte enters our multiple realities

Feb 1, 2021

My Culture are Your Myths: In and Out of History in Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man

Dec 27, 2020

A City is Differences and Objects : M. Mukundan reports our Delhi’s Soliloquy

Nov 29, 2020