‘It took some time for us to get used to each other while filming. He had a markedly elliptical style of giving you direction and I got better and better at decoding his cues. For him, it was all about feeling. Not once did we ever discuss intellectual motivation or cerebral impulses.’ Remembering Buddhadeb Dasgupta.

‘…Anahita and Shamini, co-founders of QueerAbad, say in the first issue of the zine ‘Tilt’, Queerabad gives “access to a queer world and way of life with all its tedha-ness”. A glimpse of the LGBT+ life in Ahmedabad.

‘The seasons change and with them, the narrator’s disposition. ‘In spring I suffer. The season doesn’t invigorate me, I find it depleting’, but in August, ‘I’m not a fan of this month, but I don’t hate it either’.’ A critique of Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Whereabouts’.

‘…Through the next six hours, everything Nirmala tried turned into a farce. When she tried to strike various poses on one leg, she shook uncontrollably and had to abandon the pose to avoid falling. She made mistakes in every tukda she attempted but battled on valiantly.’