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
a devilishly beautiful, chaotic pause
#216: when work takes a backseat
Certified Copy: Reading in translation
#Scurf215: On reading Olga Ravn, Vigdis Hjorth and Tove Ditlevsen only in translation, and Geetanjali Shree in both avatars
on yiyun li's meditations
#scurf214: her essays have a way of pausing time
To see a city: Berlin is never Berlin
#scurf213: A reading list on Die Hauptstadt
poets pretend, climates change, humans don't behave
#scurf211: a dirge, a plea, a little something to be
Conversation with Susanna Crossman
#Scurf210: Essayist, writer and novelist, Susanna Crossman talks to me on how her Aeon essay became a book, all within a space of two years
my favorite book of 2024
#Scurf209: 'The Anthropologists' by Ayşegül Savaş is as enchanting as it is humbling. I wish for more novels like this.
