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Shreya Sen-Handley
About the AuthorShreya Sen-Handley
Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of the award-winning Memoirs of My Body, short story collection Strange and travelogue Handle With Care. Her Twitter and Insta handle is @shreyasenhan.
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Waiting for ‘sorry’? Why not get even?Columnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Waiting for ‘sorry’? Why not get even?

    When seventies superstar Ryan O’ Neal died last year, I rewatched some of his old films and even found one I hadn’t...

    29 Sept 2024 12:13 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | The King’s plumbing and other toilet talesColumnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The King’s plumbing and other toilet tales

    The bus trip from Nottingham to London had taken many long hours more than I’d expected and I desperately needed the...

    25 Aug 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | I still have bad dreams of exam rats and brickbatsColumnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | I still have bad dreams of exam rats and...

    I’m in an exam hall despairingly staring at blank pages, because I can’t seem to recall any of the answers to the...

    28 July 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Things can only get wetter, so let’s change?Columnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Things can only get wetter, so let’s change?

    Change, they say, is the only constant. And that’s so true of the world today; we lurch from one shock to another, as...

    9 Jun 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Betrayed? Well, you’re not alone in your painColumnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Betrayed? Well, you’re not alone in your pain

    “Et tu, Brute?” It’s hard not to think about the worst of human nature when it constantly surrounds us. On the world...

    26 May 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | It takes a village to save the planet!Columnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | It takes a village to save the planet!

    “What’s on your mind?” Facebook nudged me into the realisation that family has often been on my mind, and why, despite...

    21 April 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Keep calm and carry on cryingColumnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Keep calm and carry on crying

    Crying gets a bad rap, doesn’t it?

    3 March 2024 12:55 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Pass the popcorn, it’s awards night!Columnists
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Pass the popcorn, it’s awards night!

    Awards season with its ringside seats to the world of films, fashion, and fenanigans (shenanigans of the famous), is...

    27 Jan 2024 11:45 PM IST

    Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma. (Image by Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Confessions of an armchair cricketer

    India may have lost the World Cup, but their exuberant progress to the final won my heart again. After nearly fifteen...

    26 Nov 2023 12:18 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Merits of self-care during a bad yearOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Merits of self-care during a bad year'

    Queen Elizabeth II had declared 1992 her ‘annus horribilis’ making us titter at the time, not only because...

    8 Oct 2023 12:04 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Banquets and brickbats for crumbling KolkataOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Banquets and brickbats for crumbling Kolkata

    The three-hour drive from Puducherry to Chennai on my way back to Kolkata from the Auroville Literature Festival, where...

    24 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | South Asian marvels, but can they last?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | South Asian marvels, but can they last?

    Golgappa Week on Google reminded me that we had some crunchy phuchka shells left in our kitchen cupboard, so, we whipped...

    20 Aug 2023 12:26 AM IST

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