• New pub news!

    On the occasion of National Poetry Month 2026, poet Vidya Shankar and I bring to you, our book which has been almost two years in the making: Light and Line Drawings! This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who,…

  • … yeh hai Bombay meri jaan…

    So finally, I managed to wrangle out a trip to Bombay. Just Bombay, only Bombay. It was a call for a Mumbaikar. Walked several hours by the sea. Watched fisher folks bring in fresh catch in the morning. Papa and I peeked into the fisherwoman’s basket to see floundering seafish. Mmm. Living in the middle…

  • An adventure in my epitaph

    “To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventures.” At first glance, this dedication in a book by Agatha Christie perhaps defines the lives of most of us common folk. The hope and dream of an adventure that one has merely…

  • Musings on a Berlin afternoon

    Initial apprehensions shoved aside, there was this burning determination in me to find out what makes a person tick in a strange environment. Are we really as social as we think? After the simple streets of Fort Collins, CO where you could not meet someone’s eyes without exchanging a “hi” Berlin felt aggressively hostile to…