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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 | Been there, done that, got The T-shirtOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Been there, done that, got The T-shirt

    The tide of natural disasters, pandemics, and social anarchy of the last few years has been a shock to us all. But...

    15 July 2023 10:47 PM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Whos been sleeping in my bed?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Who's been sleeping in my bed?

    Remember the bewilderment of the Three Bears coming home to the mess Goldilocks had made in their woodland cottage?...

    18 Jun 2023 12:28 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Speaking in tongues: The gift of accentsOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Speaking in tongues: The gift of accents

    In Channel 5’s excellent adaptation of PD James’ Murder Room, a witness is knocked over by a suspect’s...

    21 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?

    Little House on The Prairie’s Laura Ingalls Wilder had pronounced ‘home’ to be “the nicest word...

    23 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Jetsetting is no longer fashionable. Why not fly less to save the planet? (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Jetsetting glitzy no more, try the -'flycott-'

    “Come Flu With Me” Frank Sinatra would’ve sung had he been living in our Covid present, replacing the...

    19 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

    A winter night sky from the writers window. (Photo by arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Don’t lose sight of starry, starry nights

    “She walks in beauty like the night,” rhapsodised Byron about one of the innumerable women he’d...

    5 Feb 2023 12:57 AM IST

    What say we take a leaf out of the blissfully ignorant book of the most average Joe of all, Joey Tribbiani? (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | At the end of this year, hit refresh

    “So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over…” Beautiful, pertinent song though...

    25 Dec 2022 12:04 AM IST

    Any parent with a teen or two under their rooves will have dealt with this accelerated development this transformation of their tender tots into fully-formed individuals in the blink of a bleary, parental eye. (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Smells like teen spirit? Don’t sweat it, step...

    With my daughter’s recent birthday, I now find myself with two mercurial teenagers in the house, both in the early...

    27 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Who wore the nattier mourning hat Kate or Meghan? (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | What Chucky did next, and other regal musings

    The only questions asked of the British last month, whether royalist or not (I’m definitely NOT), are about the...

    2 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

    To paraphrase that popular maxim, you can take the girl out of India, but you cant take India out of the girl!Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | To India, With Love

    Acquiring citizenship of the country that’s been my home for so long was certainly the sensible option

    21 Aug 2022 12:16 AM IST

    A still from the Welsh National Operas Migrations which depicts the experience of Indian doctors working in the NHS featuring Natasha Agarwal as Neera and Jamal Andreas as Jai. (Credit: Craig Fuller)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The unsung benefit of pursuing the arts

    British Deputy PM Dominic Raab recently criticised Opposition MP Angela Rayner for attending an opera performance,...

    16 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    I padded about happily on my naked-as-the-day-they-were-born feet, as if on a sunny beach, and felt an incredible sense of freedom that no censorious glance could stymie. (Representational Image/ By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The happy ‘looser’s cheerful musings

    Let sandals snap and house keys hide, false friends fall away and gossip abide

    28 May 2022 10:30 PM IST

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