Hey everyone, It happened again when we returned to Delhi a few days ago. The flight landed, I handed my son his coat, got through immigration, grabbed our bags, messaged our parents, and sat in the taxi that would take us home. The place we’d been staying at in England did not have Wi-Fi, and […]

Hi everyone, Like most of us, I live and grew up in a culture where success as a result of hard work and sacrifice was celebrated and success that came easily was somehow tainted or privileged and therefore, something to feel guilty or embarrassed about.  So, as a result, I now recognize how much of […]

Hey everyone, You know how in the movie The Sixth Sense, the boy keeps running into dead people who want his help? I’m beginning to feel the same way about characters. For the last two weeks, I’ve got this real bitch of a woman tap-tap-tapping on my shoulder, demanding my attention. Finally, yesterday, I had to […]

Hey everyone, I have this insane idea that if I could just herd all the ideas in my head, throw them all in a field somewhere, pick one out of the lot and focus on it for the rest of my life, say, writing novels exclusively, then I’d be happy. I’d have a very writerly […]