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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 | 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

    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

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