Delhi's Smog Exceptionalism
Telling Delhi's haze story
An ode to Rome's tiny hatchbacks
Exploring Rome's micro-mobility charm filled with tiny hatchbacks, a literal moving history.
Strangers need strange moments together
Disconnecting from the digital noise to rekindle my bond with physical world and nonfiction media.
Placemaking as meaning making
"Exploring the magic of mundane city walks and urban interventions in 21st century Göteborg, inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting'."
Living in the world's second most sustainable destination
Göteborg, Sweden's second largest city is famous for it's sustainability practices
When a bike has main character energy
In Ira Sachs' 2023 'Passages', the two-wheeler is an extension of Franz Rogowski's character. It makes for some of the most memorable cycling moments in cinema
Ten climate books for the literary minded
Titles for those of who love our planet as much as we love crystalline, literary prose
The best Hindi philosophical hangout movie? 'Ankhon Dekhi'
The 2014 Rajat Kapoor directorial venture urges you to prod, peer, ponder
winter doesn't exist
the absence of winters, shift in climate cycles - a solastalgia for ways we once knew
end of summer
#scurf227: torn between the extraordinary and the infraordinary
on middlebrow art
#Scurf226: as a small town someone, this was gateway into the world of literature, poetry, music and cinema and i will never grow out of it
Eyes on the street: A reading list on walking in cities
Suburban walks in a new city, making meaning, connection, and time
Mother Lode: Portraits of Modern Motherhood
#Scurf224: Four books to make you gasp at the horrors of motherhood
Through a tram window seat
#scurf223: Public transport is the most literary form of travel
The endotic in Gulzar
#scurf222: Living should engage all senses, says Gulzar as does Georges Perec
An Austenesque memory, summer & a poem
#Scurf221: Summer, Jane Austen 250th birth anniversary and then some
To love is to linger
#Scurf220: On peri-urban walks, loneliness and the importance of yearning
New York city and its (dis)contents
#Scurf219: On Sohini Kay's debut graphic memoir 'This Beautiful, Ridiculous City'
Who doesn't love a love story!
#scurf218: On Rohena Gera's 'Sir' (2018) and Tillotama Shome
A Satyajit Ray lockdown
#scurf217: This essay appears in the anthology 'Garden Among Fires' (Dodo Ink, July 2020); edited by Marina Benjamin
