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What do we owe each other?
Moral responsibility, truth and book recommendations
Mar 9
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March 2023
On writing, criticism and desire
Hello, I continue to be in search of truth and am always amazed when I eventually find it right in front of me, staring me in the face. I’ve seen so…
Mar 10, 2023
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February 2023
On fear vs truth
+ books, art and film recommendations
Feb 9, 2023
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September 2022
Advice to memoir writers
+ a handful of book recommendations
Sep 25, 2022
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August 2022
Notes from a heatwave
On the challenges of writing from life, mother-daughter relationships and defining what it means to be 'cultured'.
Aug 14, 2022
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April 2022
On criticism, embarrassment and making art
My new year resolution for 2022 was to work on feeling less self-conscious/embarrassed. Embarrassed of taking up space, of having a voice, of dreaming…
Apr 24, 2022
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January 2022
On fiction and nonfiction
Hello, My Saturday mornings are usually reserved for reading the week’s (sometimes month’s) bookmarked articles, the ones I didn’t get a chance to skim…
Jan 29, 2022
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November 2021
Mothers, Sons and Others
I came across the phrase ‘the humiliations of parenting and of being parented’ in a review of Gary Shteyngart’s new book Our Country Friend and I…
Nov 10, 2021
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August 2021
Women, envy and the usual recommendations
I’m fascinated by envy among friends. And how easily it flits in and out of our consciousness when allowed. It was a feeling I experienced a lot in my…
Aug 5, 2021
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June 2021
On the precarious self-image of a female writer
Hello, Since reading Real Estate by Deborah Levy, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a female writer today. At this year’s Hay Festival…
Jun 4, 2021
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May 2021
On Connection, being a writer and India's COVID surge
Every time I shut my eyes I see mass funeral pyres. If I don’t distract myself with reading, writing and prayer, I crumble. Arundhati Roy’s long read on…
May 1, 2021
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April 2021
How are you? I'm languishing
Hello, Like a lot of us, I too read Adam Grant’s NYT piece There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing and thought ‘it me’. The…
Apr 20, 2021
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