The Times of India

A growing collection of my writing for TOI Voices. I keep coming back to how the stories we tell and the words we use shape what we notice, what we believe, and even who we find ourselves rooting for.

The influence of language on thought follows the grammatically gendered bones of Hindi and who that leaves out of a society's imagination. The boys who praised the monster starts with a classroom argument about a film and ends somewhere harder. A yellow-and-vermilion lining is about Ravita, a widow who drives an auto-rickshaw in Delhi, and what data could not tell me about her life.