Culture
Living in a Cave
I was 12 when I first bled. I remember getting up to use the bathroom and seeing blood in my underwear. I ran to my..
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Non-Fiction
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Creative Non-Fiction
Streetwise but missing out
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Culture
Nightlife in Venice
Venetian nightlife, I’m sorry to report, has become rather dull. Gambling, which used to take place in decadent brothels, is now confined to the Municipal..
Creative Non-Fiction
Death of an Ambassador
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Culture
Saltfish, Rum & Jamericans
My mother and I stood in line for a coconut. My feet sank into the hot Caribbean sand as we waited with the other tourists…
Creative Non-Fiction
Can two Bangalores co-exist?
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Creative Non-Fiction
Country Roads & Rickshaw Drivers
The buzzing in my ears seemed to come from a long way off. Feeling distinctly alarmed I stuck my forefingers deep into my ears, closed..
Creative Non-Fiction
Macbeth with added parrots
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Creative Non-Fiction
Siblings
My brother and I park in the parking lot of Aldi, a German grocery store, and walk to the entrance. Lying on the right next..
Creative Non-Fiction
That Night..
Do you have a favourite mom-dad story, too? The one they tell you so often, and so vividly, that you feel you were right there..
Creative Non-Fiction
Food for the soul and the stomach
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Culture
Having a Pension: The Last American Dream Becomes an Element of Myth
Whereas hope and empowerment characterize the realm of dreams, mythic landscapes can be quite different, rife with obstacles the hero cannot overcome, despite hard work..
Cinema
Wakanda forever, lah, beyond the West
TGV is the newer of Miri’s two movie theaters. Past the vendors selling durian and rambutan in the tamu, the stall keepers offering nasi lemak..
Creative Non-Fiction
No mere film star!
The arts and culture pages of the day before yesterday’s Hindu newspaper (April 24th 2015) brought back vivid memories of my first visit to India..
Creative Non-Fiction
Two facets
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been torn between the two irreconcilable halves of my person- Tanisha, my name on every official document,..
Creative Non-Fiction
If I really must go shopping
II dislike shopping. That is, I am intolerant of the endless mind-numbing browsing of groaning shelves and sagging racks of items that I can live..
Creative Non-Fiction
Morning Raga
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Book Reviews
The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch — Book Review
Sameen Borker reviews The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch, by Sanam Maher.
Creative Non-Fiction
Vendors of Dignity & Cows of Jayanagar
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Book Reviews
The Best Asian Short Stories 2017
Fehmida Zakeer reviews Kitaab’s first anthology of The Best Asian Short Stories.
Creative Non-Fiction
(Not Quite) Lost in the Lanes of Jayanagar
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Non-Fiction
THE POWER OF P’s: Philosophy, Puberty, and Pumice
I GREW UP IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA IN THE EARLY 1950’s, when television was in its infancy (only three channels). We had a twelve inch..
Music
Living with Jazz
I was painfully aware of my lack of a jazzer’s ear the year I spent playing tenor saxophone in my high school jazz band. I..
Cinema
Medea on Prozac
Dyna Kassir’s essay is a collection of speculative thoughts, diverse and scattered but many times blended and regrouped, inspired by the 2008 movie “Slumdog Millionaires” directed by Danny Boyle.