India, April 20 -- Dear Reader, "I forget poetry, but it doesn't forget me," says Raju Tai. Speaking with 34-year-old poet Raju Tai, I realise I forget poetry too. When was the last time you let a p... Read More
India, April 13 -- Dear Reader, Summer isn't what it used to be. Sitting at my desk, with a list of jobs on the whiteboard before me, I miss the summer holidays of my youth, days when everything slow... Read More
India, April 6 -- Dear Reader, At 2pm on a Tuesday, as MBA students slump post-lunch, guest speaker and Bollywood scriptwriter Atika Chohan does the unexpected-she questions her own presence. 'Why i... Read More
India, March 30 -- Dear Reader, We are almost at the end of lunch when Rohini opens her backpack to retrieve two copies of her book. It's a blue paperback titled "What's In Your Backpack," an explora... Read More
India, March 23 -- Dear Reader, When we land at San Francisco International Airport, I stop at the bookstore to check out the new books. To my surprise, Careless People is nowhere to be found. This n... Read More
India, March 16 -- Dear Reader, I discovered London Writers Salon (LWS) a few years ago. I'd been struggling with writing, with getting away from the distractions of the day - the meetings, teaching ... Read More
India, March 8 -- My dearest A, When I became pregnant with you, my third baby, people had a lot to say. "Why a third child? Ah oh, we get it now - your first two are girls, so you must want a son." ... Read More
India, March 1 -- Dear Reader, I sit by an aeroplane window, surrounded by stacks of handwritten transcripts, each written in its distinctive style - loopy, scrawled, precise. Eight hours stretch ahe... Read More
India, Feb. 22 -- Dear Reader, John Vaillant wrote a book called Fire Weather in 2023. Then LA went up in flames, and suddenly John Vaillant became a celebrity. "I was interviewed for 12 hours non-s... Read More
India, Feb. 15 -- Dear Reader, I am in the city of Goethe, where steel and glass buildings rise through wintry fog. On the outskirts, silver oaks and beech trees stand skeletally against a grey sky. ... Read More