personal essay
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Author origins: ‘My grandmother and her way of mothering us by telling us stories made me a writer’
Priya Hajela
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An alchemy of grief: In cooking, I seek out flavours, forgotten memories and my father
Mandakini Menon
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From the memoir: Journalist Lalita Iyer writes of the joys of ‘aloneness’
Lalita Iyer
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In a new book of essays, women write about their mental health problems and how they persevered
Neha Kirpal Janani Iyer Aparna Piramal
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From the depths and despair of the 2004 tsunami, a Sri Lankan prepares to scale great heights
Dimantha Dilan Thenuwara
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‘What happened to the flowers?’: What absolute freedom looks like for publisher-poet Naveen Kishore
Naveen Kishore
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‘Without death, there is no art’: How Amitava Kumar’s new novel came to be
Amitava Kumar
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‘The day I officially became a storyteller’: Novelist Iffat Nawaz’s (very) personal essay on writing
Iffat Nawaz
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Personal essay: Death is everywhere in Bollywood, but why is grief so rare?
Bijal Vachharajani