Writing that follows people through cities — protest sites, transit, urban memory, and the gendered geography of streets and public space.
Cities, Space & Everyday Life
It is not unusual to reflect on things when a milestone is just around the corner.......
Read MoreCan a cup of coffee reveal the social anxieties of an entire society? What do coffee......
Read MoreIn the vibrant, tumultuous Kolkata of the 1970s, four girls in their late-teens–Bulan, Renu, Suman, and......
Read More(First published in Galpabiswa, march 2024) Just like physical objects, which succumb to wear and tear......
Read MoreIt was the first time I was stepping out of the house after the hysterectomy. My......
Read MoreBending over clouds We are dunked, face first Into the broken arteries of Kolkata: Dissected torso......
Read MoreWhere is a slogan born? When does a sack of rice begin to speak? The moon......
Read MoreAt Mandir Marg police station, I saw, as I stepped off a private bus spilling with......
Read MoreIt starts like this: a girl, a train, a man. The man asks the girl will......
Read MoreSo many of them barefoot and merry striding through the unholy muck on the ghats at......
Read Moreon october 21st at around 1730,a bulldozer excavates dirt. anda migrating flock of herons-maybe-flock around it.......
Read MoreWhen we remain the last speakersof the dialect of damp decades,who will listen to the cry......
Read More✕ ‹ › Jacques Derrida, in his 1995 work, Mal d’Archive, spoke about the feverish desire......
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