The world is, at least at an instinctive level, less scary as a grown-up.
The stories in this list cover a host of subjects, from the mundane to the political
The fantastic banality of life in Japanese literature.
The sound of laughter is indistinguishable across languages.
“In one lifetime, Gayatri Devi lived many, often contrasting, lives.”
“Jack Kennedy, Joe’s second son, had just reached his twenties, and my mother had two or three years on him, but he was soon deeply smitten by her Latin charms.”
“In fact, most of Bengaluru’s water bodies died far before the city even began turning into the crowded metropolis it is today.”
A photo essay by Yuvan Kumar.
Musetta’s Waltz was playing on my phone. I turned down the narrow crowded street, and edging past other tourists, entered a cafe. I asked for and quickly drank the 90-cent espresso on which I had lately come to depend. It was, I am told, a souvenir from Italy, a country where along with bitter coffee, […]
“Ulysses shed a tear; I only dirtied a linen shirt.”