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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.
    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

    Incapable of such eloquence ourselves, we can certainly see how this month, with all the beauty and fresh infusions of natural life that it brings, rejuvenates us too, putting a spring in our steps and stirring hope. (By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | April showers bring bunnies and flowers

    Knowing that all’s not lost encourages us to pull up our socks, and set the world to rights

    17 April 2022 12:03 AM IST

    Some of us, you see, have been left with Long Covid, and almost all of us with Long Anxiety, which is not just another fallout of the pandemic, but a pandemic in its own right. (Photo by arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Mothers’ dreams, and why they must be taken...

    The climate crisis, the pandemic, this new war, are REAL, and so’s the anxiety!

    20 March 2022 12:30 AM IST

    Strictly speaking then, what afflicts men in midlife isnt menopause. Instead, they are men-who-pause. Pause in their middle years to upturn their lives. For better or worse. (Image by Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The good, bad and ugly of midlife blips

    With never enough money to research ‘women’s troubles’, this island of no-return is relatively unexplored yet

    30 Jan 2022 2:06 AM IST

    So, what does 2022, the Year of the Tiger, promise?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Steve, Chom-chom, other name games people play

    At birth we’re given hopeful names by our generally well-intentioned parents, with which we develop a love-hate...

    26 Dec 2021 3:08 AM IST

    About three per cent of the UK, five per cent of the US, and 12 per cent of Finland, to name just a few, suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder in the winter! (AFP Representational Image)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Season's affect and the comfort of darkness

    In this first month of winter, in the colder reaches of the world, the nights draw near, and the days are hauntingly...

    14 Nov 2021 2:42 PM IST

    The difference in heights between the two stars, Sushmita and Riya Sen, is intriguing, to say the least.Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Heightism the long and the short of it

    Some refer to us as vertically challenged' when trying to be polite

    10 Oct 2021 9:09 AM IST

    The anger of men remains more acceptable than that of women, especially women of colour. (Twitter)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Square up in Kabul, look forward in rage

    Behind every successful pacific political movement, there’s controlled, empowering anger

    5 Sept 2021 2:40 AM IST

    Erik Renssen, Woman writing a letter, 2018, renssenartgalley.comOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Unfriend social media, it is time to get...

    It reduces interaction to likes and emojis, quantity, not quality, with little distinction made between genuine buds and...

    31 July 2021 8:27 PM IST

    The author in her garden, showing off her purple streaks.Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The wonder years start at 50

    But if growing up is getting to fifty then it isn’t miles away, and with my two left feet, dancing’s not on my...

    27 Jun 2021 12:02 AM IST

    On solo commutes, we should cycle everywhere we can, switching to green public transport where cycling might be hazardous, with the occasional use of an electric car when transporting the whole clan. (By arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Back to the future', with a ticket to ride

    This pandemic has opened my eyes to what's essential in my life; that which provides long-term joy over short-lived...

    30 May 2021 7:41 AM IST

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