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“My City”, For India Today‘s Simply Chennai 12 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
I saw the most beautiful bull a few days ago. Its hump was covered in a fabric of sea green sequins, its horns unpainted, and a dark, intense-eyed man held its tether. They were attempting to cross a ...
Video Interview On A Learning A Day’s Real Leaders Project 28 Jul 2013 | 10:32 pm
I was recently interviewed on creativity and inspiration for A Learning A Day’s Real Leaders Project. Check out the video here.
On Tribal Honeygathering In The Nilgiris In National Geographic Traveller 16 Jul 2013 | 05:16 pm
In mid-2012, I had the amazing experience of accompanying five Irula tribespeople on a honeygathering mission in the Nilgiris, where I watched them harvest combs off a cliff using 2000-year old tradit...
Are We Bisexual/Bicurious By Nature? 8 Jul 2013 | 04:16 pm
I said Yes in this lighthearted debate which appeared in Women’s Health India‘s June issue, and has been republished by Yahoo! India here.
Book Review: The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai 8 Jul 2013 | 04:15 pm
In this week’s The Sunday Guardian, here.
A Sequence of Poems In Kindle 19 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm
Kindle Magazine has an all-poetry issue out now, and I am so pleased that they have republished “The Ten Idylls” – an old sequence of mine inspired by translations of 2000-year old Tamil Sangam poetry...
Baker’s Dozen: The Elle-Tranquebar Book of Short Stories 19 Jun 2013 | 07:03 pm
The anthology Baker’s Dozen: The Elle-Tranquebar Book of Short Stories is out now from Tranquebar Press and available at all good bookstores, online and offline. It features six winners of the Elle Fi...
Book Review: Island Of A Thousand Mirrors” by Nayomi Munaweera 12 May 2013 | 06:06 pm
In the media today we sometimes encounter the phrase, “the Sri Lanka story”, as though a singular narrative exists. Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors is an elegant debut that attempts, a...
Talking Erotica In Campus Diaries 20 Apr 2013 | 07:44 am
Campus Diaries recently interviewed me about writing and reading erotica. CD: What does it mean for you to be erotic? As a personal definition and in your work? SM: There’s a line from an Ani Difranco...
A Story In The Moth 17 Mar 2013 | 11:41 am
I have a short story, “Sweet” in the Spring 2013 issue of The Moth, an Ireland-based print magazine. Here’s the first paragraph… They say that if you dream of the one you long for on a night when you ...
