One of my recent projects is all set to be published in less than a month! It is called 'The Selkie Girl' and is one of a set of three Scottish fairytale books.Until I was offered this fascinating project to work on, I had never heard of Selkies. Selkies are beautiful, mythical creatures from Scottish folklore; seals who shed their skins to turn...
On this very day in 1947, India became a free country. We wrote our own constitution and decided that we were able and willing to govern ourselves. We chose to be free. And yet, as I look around today, a question, unbidden, surfaces in my mind; are we? Almost all of us are enslaved, if not in action, in thought. We are controlled by...
It has been a month since I left the city I have been in love with for a few years now. But memories of it have not left me... These memories tug at me, and dance around, laughing and singing, like the children I have met there. They walk with me, talking in quiet, inspiring voices, like the gentle people I have known there....
My February post is in solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters in India and all around the world.In December 2013, the Supreme Court of India recriminalised homosexuality and turned the clocks back three years (here's what I think of that). My respect for the highest court of the land has evaporated quickly at this blatant denial of basic human rights.There can be...
For every month this new year, I've decided to do a drawing about something that I feel strongly about. For the first post in January (which also is my birth month), I thought I’d start with something that is and will always be an intrinsic part of me - the intellectual, artistic and literary object called 'a book'.Books have been my closest companions...
