I have a new piece in the current issue of Outlook. It is an essay on the landscape of memory along with six of my drawings. You can read the whole piece here.
Posts Categorized: Drawing
Children’s Tales in Granta
My report on the Andamans is out in Granta. It is probably the fourth essay on India, part-memoir, part-travel, that Luke Neima has helped me publish there, and my appreciation for Luke as an editor, thoughtful and exact, is profound and filled with gratitude. (He would have improved this preceding sentence. I’m writing in a cab… Read more »
Letter from Lake Como
I’m very lucky to have been awarded a Hawthornden Residency at Casa Ecco on Lake Como. As I report in my post, I arrived here and worked on the manuscript of the short book that will be published by Aleph under the title The Social Life of Indian Trains: A Journey. This is going to… Read more »
NYPL Researcher Spotlight Interview
My current trip to India is coming to an end. Have spent a lot of time in Bengal and it has been good. Tonight I’ll conduct a writing workshop at The Bookshop in Jor Bagh, and then get on a plane. In this post I want to share something different. In mid-July, while I was… Read more »
On Eating
I have an essay on the “On Eating” website: I am at my sister’s house in Patna. Whenever I come to Patna, during periods when my college is closed for either summer or winter holidays, I mostly eat at home. There must be fine restaurants in town but these aren’t the places I knew in… Read more »
A Lover’s Discourse
I was interviewed for Frontline magazine, for their new “Bookmarks” column. The interview has been published under the title “Reading is Good When It Disturbs You.” In the interview I had mentioned A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes and, after listening to Merve Emre’s podcast “The Critic and her Publics,” I have posted a Substack… Read more »
The Green Book
HarperCollins India announces the release on Dec 5, 2024 of The Green Book, the final volume in my trilogy of drawing books-plus-diaries. My eternal thanks to Udayan Mitra of HarperCollins India and to Hemali Sodhi of A Suitable Agency. An excerpt: Many of the drawings and paintings in this book are the result of the… Read more »
Fall Dates
Please go here for the complete post on Substack but here are my Fall dates: Sept 13, 2024, Tivoli…………Talk titled “Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene,” A Public Space Weekend Retreat Sept 21,2024, Seattle………..In conversation with Alka Kurian about My Beloved Life, JLF Seattle Sept 29, 2024, Brooklyn……….Noon panel on “Writing Our Histories,”… Read more »
Sinking Town
I am very lucky to have a piece of mine to be published by Granta today. It is a travel-report on my visit to Joshimath, a town in Uttarakhand. Read it here.
The Sense of an Ending
I have just made a SubStack post about my time at the Cullman Center coming to a close. I have included in the post, at the request of a website that promotes reading, a list of five books on fathers. And some writing advice. Please check it out and subscribe to my SubStack!