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Culture

A Different Birthday

A birthday visit to Kochi becomes a meditation on art, performance, travel, and grief.

Culture

Shades of White

The author’s courageous attempt to create a near-perfect amalgamation of colors, heritage and cultures is met with unforeseen hurdles. Helpless, the author calls herself a white woman with a dark story.

Memoirs

The Dreams of a Mappila Girl

In the preface to her memoir, the author B. M. Zuhara writes, “I grew up at a time when Muslim girls did not even have..

Memoirs

ZAYDE

My grandfather had died. I was four years old. I rested my elbows on my mother’s knees and gazed up at the strange men…

Memoirs

In a Dark Wood

1 There were four bunks in the room and two seemed already claimed.  Some boxes sat on them, partly opened, and some clothes hung on..