On Sovereignty & Time

On Sovereignty & Time

These past couple of years, when most of us have experienced a reality shaped almost entirely by a global pandemic that has taken millions of human and non-human lives, we’ve been directly confronted with our relationship with Time. For some of us, Time has stretched...
Fever Dreams, Pandemic Visions

Fever Dreams, Pandemic Visions

Instead of waiting, longing, hoping, praying for this pandemic to pass — which it will, as all things do, though we don’t know when, or how, or what our world will look like when it does — sit with the whole grievous, gorgeous, terrifying truth of...
Panther Medicine: A True Fable

Panther Medicine: A True Fable

My best friend’s cousin, M, kept a pet panther in her apartment in South Bombay’s very posh Marine Drive neighbourhood. The panther was a baby when M’s brother brought it to Bombay — an orphan he’d found shivering in the bushes near a tea plantation in Assam. M...
The Art of Homecoming

The Art of Homecoming

Art is made by choosing a set of constraints, using them to create a boundary, and then building a world inside it. With words or paint, metal or wood, musical instrument or food — whatever your art, it is a collaboration between you, the medium you work with,...