New Ways of Seeing

Readers of this blog, I finally have a forthcoming sole-authored monograph after almost a decade of starting this blog. It is titled, The T...

Image: Author's own, taken in Bushwick (Brooklyn) in May 2016 It is a hot day in Sydney and I am swimming in literature and gentr...

Unless you were living under a proverbial rock called commercial television in Australia these past few months, you are probably aware of t...

On Australia Day (which also happens to be India's Republic Day), I interviewed my friend, the maverick writer and radio presenter Suni...

On the 29th of October 2014, no country was led into Tagore's 'Heaven of Freedom' , but I did become a naturalised citizen of A...

An exhibit at the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) As I edge closer to (finally) attending my Australian citizenship c...

*This is the first in a series of monthly posts until I complete my new documentary project on ordinary, everyday practices of cosmopolitan...

I have been using food-related anecdotes to begin and flavour many a personal/political story. Yet I know that this loaded metaphor is oft...