
A Grammar of Knowing
quest (n): a jury of inquest; investigation; an act or instance of seeking; pursuit, search

quest (n): a jury of inquest; investigation; an act or instance of seeking; pursuit, search

“I love you…” No… not like that… Love should be confessed in the motherhood of

Who tells your story decides how your story is told. A tale mutates each time

The lights in the auditorium go off. The stage is set. We enter, hands and

The gestural marks of abstraction helped me to articulate the waves of feeling that exceeded

While sitting amidst the Trans-Himalayas in Ladakh, I came across this call for writings about

Dear L, Well before you were born, a part of me feared for you even

My mother never yells. She doesn’t throw things, slam doors, or deliver speeches about hurt.

‘Sick Woman Theory’ borrows from the essay by Johanna Hedva of the same title. Hedva

On cold winter nights in Delhi, a Russian Idiot, an English Idiot, a Tamil Idiot

When I think of all the times I have shared misunderstandings with a friend or

content note for sexual violence. Before going on the date, before going to his place,

content note for sexual violence . My grandmother sits on the verandah, her legs spread


“Aapke paas paanch-das minute ka time hai kya? Mujhe Sassoon Dock ke baare mein jaankaari

I recently witnessed the birth of my niece. Her first look made me believe that

My sister’s favourite Lepcha song is not any of the current, modern songs ruling the

There is a story—part musicology, part myth—that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Chaconne, the monumental

Pramila Shetty, a.k.a. Pamu, my mother, started cooking at an early age as a daily

Whether for the love of the story, or because of a colonial hangover we have

“All Activists on the Freedom Flotilla have been Abducted by Israel” There is a crow

I never learned to grieve for my father. That language was perpetually distant to me.

छोरी चली परदेस, मायका सुना हो गया, आंगन की कोयल भी चुप, गीत अधूरा हो

Thread by thread, the intricate art of embroidery in Baloch society unfolds a profound language

Sometimes, I wonder if my grandmother still speaks to me. In 2022, the woman I

The language used to talk about menstruation is rarely neutral. Across cultures, fiction, law, and

“Walls are publishers of the poor!” – this famous line by Eduardo Galeano, an Uruguayan

Lovers of book clubs will know that the act of reading together makes for a

Inviting stories in creative nonfiction that explore the subject of translation, in and beyond language.

Let’s travel to the India of the 1950s, a country redefining itself in the wake

The protest against the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949 continues at the Domuhan grounds,

The protagonist Saleem Sinai’s fate in Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children (Jonathan Cape,

I write a letter, not to a person, place, thing. But a letter to a

I do not remember the first time I said ‘teslam eedek’ to my mother. It
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