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Reading Braille with White Print magazine’s Upasana Makati
Read more: Reading Braille with White Print magazine’s Upasana MakatiMore than 9 million people in India are blind and millions more are visually impaired. Yet, a simple question – What do the blind read? – yields only a handful of answers. When weeks of research led Upasana Makati to just a few newsletters printed by the National Association for the Blind, she decided to…
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Poetry Corner
Read more: Poetry CornerOutside my window it’s never the same—some mornings jasmine slaps the house, some mornings sorrow. There is a word I overheard today, meaning lostnot on a career path or across a floating bridge Boketto—to stare out windows without purpose.Don’t laugh; it’s been too long since we leaned…
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Prelude to a riot
Read more: Prelude to a riotIndia today is a nation of frayed seams. Prelude to a Riot tells the story of one such unraveling in a small Southern town with the help of two families – one Hindu and one Muslim. Written as soliloquies, across three generations, it provides an insight into the thoughts of different actors, and how the…
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Sweet Nibbles
Read more: Sweet NibblesWhen the pandemic nudged so many of us back into the kitchen, it also made us turn to old comfort recipes. Ones that had been forgotten, or replaced with easier alternatives, including packaged food. The early days of the pandemic made me feel like a child again, back in my village near Ratnagiri, where the…
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Sepia winters
Read more: Sepia wintersA walk round the house is all it takes to fall down the rabbit hole. This time it was a patchwork quilt – spun of old bits, uncovered by the sister in the hometown; most likely a vestige of our childhood years. This led me to others, spun from grandmom’s sarees – small floral patters…
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A Thousand Mornings 