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The Venus Flytrap: A Coven At The Crossroads
This is a column about things too sacrosanct to write about, but which deserve sharing. About spoken silences. About synecdoches: how smallness can contain splendour. About how your long covenant with...
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The Venus Flytrap: Beauty & Outer Beauty
One of the truest signs I know of a person being untrustworthy is if, after being introduced to someone who they are aware has caused you or another immense pain, they comment on their perceived...
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The Venus Flytrap: Funny, That’s Sexist
In a clip that went viral earlier this week, entertainment journalist Anupama Chopra presented this question to a panel of professional comedians: “Is the comedy space more sexist than other fields in...
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The Venus Flytrap: Other Lives, Once Ours
Sometimes the ghost of another once-nascent life – not another lifetime, but this very one, if choice or chance had steered it differently at some bygone fork in the road – rises to you and says,...
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The Venus Flytrap: A Tale Of Two Poets (aka A Little Aishwarya Rai Appreciation)
If Karan Johar was going for a parody effect with the character of the poet in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, he failed. Essayed by Aishwarya Rai, Saba of the shayaris was surprisingly familiar, real and honest...
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The Venus Flytrap: Once Bitter, Twice Sweet
Once when I was still intrepid in the ways in which I ventured in the world, I sat on the leaf-carpeted floor of a forest at sunfall and ate a piece of honeycomb. It had been cut fresh from a hive I...
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The Venus Flytrap: The Exhumation of Salvador Dali
It’s a suitably surreal story, the kind that would make a fascinating novel (and later, when the author can finally quit her day job after selling the film rights, a good movie too). Picture it: it is...
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The Venus Flytrap: Cassandra In The Kingdom Of Closed Eyes
A boy is knifed in a train and bleeds to death on his brother’s lap on a station platform and no one sees. A young woman is stabbed and bleeds to death on another station platform and no one sees, but...
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5 Decades Of Desire: The 30s
I am often assailed by longing for the woman I was at the cusp of 26, neither too young to know nor old enough to know too much. Not only was I free-spirited and passionate, but I was also met by what...
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The High Priestess Never Marries Wins A Laadli Award
I am so deeply honoured that The High Priestess Never Marries has won a 2015-2016 South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award For Gender Sensitivity in the category of Best Book (Fiction). The...
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