A personal essay on the experience of misophonia and living with it.

A captivating essay about coming of age, beauty standards and eyebrows

A tender account of a half-lived love affair.

A meditation on finding home through trees.

A personal meditation on performance, narrative and authenticity.

A heartfelt meditation on etymology, names, identity and belonging.

A riveting, heartfelt journey into the aftermath of a personal crisis.

An incisive ode to the wonders of street food and the systems around it.

A small introduction to the life and times of arguably Latin America’s greatest and best-known novelist.

Vikram Nijhawan

A riveting personal essay about memory, a father’s journey to Wimbledon in the 1970s and tennis as a lifelong companion.

Anjali N

A heartfelt personal essay that explores silence, expression, being diagnosed with autism and finding acceptance and love.

An account of the life of a classic Russian writer who went deep into the recesses of the mind, from exile to mock execution to literary stardom.

Does individual environmental action have any place in a system where it already feels like it’s too late?

Sindhu Ratnarajan

The inextricable link between grief and humour comes to the fore in this account of organising a funeral during the Sri Lankan crisis.

Srikar Raghavan

The life and times of a maverick Scrabble guru come alive in this personal essay about a colourful trip down memory lane.

Joseph Palmer

A Bob Dylan skeptic walks into a show, and leaves as a convert in this pithy, lyrical essay about coming to appreciate the greats