Eat Pray Love (2006) is a self-help memoir written by a depressed, white, American woman who finds healing in India. It spent 187 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and satisfied the fantasies of many would-be travellers.Read more…
Sita’s story: the Ramayana’s iconographic influence on Hindu womanhood
The much beloved Sita, Rama’s faithful consort throughout his escapades in exile, and the central ‘victim’ within Hindu epic Ramayana, has been interpreted, invoked and appropriated since she was first inscribed by the sage Valmiki 10,000 years ago. During theRead more…
On death and grief
I have noticed while straddling two cultures – my family’s and my birthplace’s – that the universality of death and grief ends there. How we approach it, the means by which we acknowledge it and the language surrounding it areRead more…