Welcome to New York

Taylor Swift’s anthem to New York blares in my ears as the train enters the North River tunnels.
8 years since I traveled to the city for fun. Memories cascade across my feed …
Grief is the metabolization of change

I read Inciting Joy at the end of last year because I wanted to read a book about joy. In its pages and hours of audio, I found much joy (in flower beds and trips to Sabrina’s) but also many lessons about joy that come from darker moments (death and grief).
Why do I blog?

Why do you blog? It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged on this website. This prompt from my WordPress app seems as good a reason to restart as any other. When I first started blogging back in 2012, I was documenting my journey in India. I moved on to writing about Indian books, Indian […]
Book review: Defiant Dreams

Editor’s note Although I have never met them, I know several of the contributors to this volume, mostly through the online Facebook group For Writers, By Authors. I was a beta reader of Radhika Maira Tabrez’s short story in this volume, Built From the Ashes. Anirban Nanda has beta read for me. When Rhiti Bose […]
