“It was my sweet refrain. I was just another coffee lover from Kolkata, a girl in love with the city. I was at once an individual and the vox populi.”
– Madhura Banerjee writes a love letter to black coffee and the city of Bangalore.
“From a parlor game meant for royalty, the 78-card Tarot deck has come a long way. It has participated in arcane rituals, carried forward the mystical teachings of secret societies across centuries, and become a powerful tool of self-healing, empowerment, divination, and storytelling.”
Writes Archita Mittra.
The election season is over – so of course, it’s time to get our bicycles out!
Bob and Bobby, doing what they do best, in this edition of Almost Resisting.
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali – Senjuti Patra, our very own bookworm, writes about her pick for the month!
“…it even has a warm milk function—a vision of the mother not even stirring from sleep opening the door and popping the warm bottle straight in the screaming infant’s mouth made me buy it.”
– Varsha Tiwary captures with brilliant nuance, the unbelievable urgency and insecurities of a typical morning at a typical household.
“You remember, with a shock, that you didn’t put kungumam on the jacket here. Did you bring any? Did the Gods even travel here with you? Can They cross the oceans? .”
– A beautiful soliloquy on clothes and the meaning they hold for us, by a Meera Rajagopalan at the top of her game.
“Summer stretched out behind them, a seemingly endless summer culminating in today; a somewhat melancholic gathering of friends, some old, some new…”
Natascha Graham writes of a love that is sweet and sad, and smells of summers gone by.
