“Too much simplicity conceals the hollows where what is unspoken lurks in the darkness.” An essay on family dynamics and food.
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A dot shines on the page
at the zero degree of all directions.
Here ends your returning.
You are home. Continue Reading Litro #156: India: Mapping Memories
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I imagined how my father must feel to return to the land of his birth after fifty-two years. More than the physical aspect of traveling long and far it was ...
I can tell she’s newly arrived from India. She has that smell which wraps itself around women and men and children newly arrived from India; of pickles and incense and ...
We soon got to the sex and lies. At first he told me he and his wife were in an ‘open relationship.’ Then he said he was torn between his ...
Jamie’s stories died that night, because all stories are based on two things. There should be at least one listener who appreciates them. And there should be hope on which ...
Love is possible despite imperfections. That is what comes through loud and clear when I think of them now. They were two strangers thrown together in an arranged marriage. ...
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Bhama looked out of the window and saw he was still there, squatting under the mango tree opposite her house. He was decently dressed, though his mundu was dusty and ...
In this, the first of her columns for Litro challenging Indian attitudes to the sacred cow, Supriya Ambwani questions the Hindu ban on eating beef, investigates what’s behind the traditional ...
I think I had a crush on J. D. Salinger’s Seymour Glass, and before that, a non-romantic but intense crush on Sherlock Holmes. A mystery was going to bring him ...
It strikes me that the film, Cotton for my Shroud, has an ominous title with various connotations. The word “shroud” refers to a cloth used to wrap a body for ...
