I Wrote 100 Posts On Medium – This Is What I Learnt

I Wrote 100 Posts On Medium – This Is What I Learnt

A year and half or so ago, I came to Medium as a reader. Although not trained to be a writer, I had resumed writing with a passion that had been missing for almost two decades. My first foray into writing had been as a young mother. I tried to make sense of my life as...
This Is What Happens When You Do Something Every Day

This Is What Happens When You Do Something Every Day

An unusual frame, 4 feet X 2 feet,  hangs on one of the walls of my bedroom. It is not a painting, nor a photograph. It is unusual for two reasons, Firstly, because it is made of an embossed sheet of aluminum that depicts a man in a chariot drawn by five horses. And...
Dinner with Zadie Smith

Dinner with Zadie Smith

When asked ‘what superpower would you like to have’ – many say they would like to know the future. Perhaps these are the people who read their horoscopes in the newspaper everyday or sometimes visit fortune-tellers for a peek behind the opaque curtain of an...
Book Review: Hourglass – Time, Memory, Marriage

Book Review: Hourglass – Time, Memory, Marriage

Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage  By  Dani Shapiro At the time of writing this memoir, Dani Shapiro had already written three prior memoirs. At the time of reading this memoir by Shapiro, I had read her latest one, Inheritance – A memoir of genealogy, paternity...