• Musings

    Them versus us

    The year was 2002. I was a naive small town girl on her first solo trip to the big bad world of metropolises. Mumbai. The sight of people stuffed like sardines into local trains— pushed in and…

  • Musings

    Melting identities

    I am supervising my nephew as he fills up the boxes on his Maharashtra State Board examination form. As we reach question 11, my jaw drops. It asks: Minority Religion:  0 – Non-minority, 1- Muslim, 2-Christian, 3-Buddhist,…