Archita Raghu

CHENNAI: At the pharmacy counter at VSR Hospital, Premavathy carefully examines hurried, nearly-illegible scribbles of prescriptions. Each capsule, medicine or

CHENNAI: Every monsoon, water carves a path, and rivulets return gushingly to their basins. While topography may have changed and areas are rendered unrecognisa

CHENNAI: A blank screen in a cinema theatre transforms every day, portraying tales of heart-wrenching star-crossed lovers, a goosebump-inducing haunted house, o

HYDERABAD: As the scorching sun hinted at the start of summer, the season of sweat, endless demands for elaneer (tender coconut), patches of prickly heat follow

CHENNAI: Bodies, caste, sexuality, desire, and violence — these topics filled the poems penned by Malathi, Kutty Revathi, Salam, and Sukirthirani, in the early

CHENNAI: "Oru jeevan thaan, Un paadal thaan, Ooyaamal isaikkindrathu, Iru kannilum un gnyaabagam,’ (one soul is singing your song. Both eyes remember you) croon

CHENNAI: From purchasing pads hastily wrapped in black plastic covers, being told to cover up with a dupatta to peeking over one’s shoulders in dark lanes, repr

CHENNAI: Trauma, attachment styles, repression — these buzzwords teem in online discourse, inexplicably altering our ideas of how we view ourselves and the worl

CHENNAI: As a picky eater, my worst nightmare was seated at the looming dinner table, with an unfinished plate of now-cold rice and poriyal. I resorted to dashi

CHENNAI: Forty-three-year-old S Kumaresan, who belongs to the fishing community in Ennore, lost one of his three sons five years ago to bone cancer. “My eldest