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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.
    Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Bedroom in Arles, 1888Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Ode to sleep, and sleepless spirits

    Lack of sleep not only fuels fatigue, however, and bodily dissonance, it could also introduce a psychological kink

    28 Feb 2021 4:41 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump. (AFP)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Trump, and the art of leaving

    But was it also Trump’s bid to trash Washington and American democracy, if he could no longer preside over it

    24 Jan 2021 7:29 AM IST

    Young neurodivergents, like you, are the real X-Men (representational image)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | 2020, the year I learn I am neurodivergent

    Mutants with a mission to change the world for the better, you are superheroes, not villains

    27 Dec 2020 6:46 AM IST

    Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar City, was reeling under winter chill and witnessed the seasons first snowfall earlier this month. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Winter upon us, so’s the season of scapegoating

    Winter is nearly here, and will be a long litany of horrors, unless we act to prevent them.

    1 Nov 2020 4:48 PM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata ‘Kumroween’ & other COVID sacrificesOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata ‘Kumroween’ & other COVID...

    There can be no Kumroween this year. No festivities of any sort for us in Kolkata

    4 Oct 2020 6:23 PM IST

    Yet, for many of us the pandemic rules of engagement are no more baffling than those we had to contend with before, such as the etiquette around kissing, aka. KissiquetteOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The pandemic kissiquette

    Since kissing from two metres away is a physical impossibility, this rule isn’t hard to maintain except for...

    29 Aug 2020 8:01 PM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Is nationality fluid, are borders futile?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Is nationality fluid, are borders futile?

    What are borders but human constructs, appealing to our basest instincts — cruelty and greed?

    6 July 2020 7:05 PM IST

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    Shreya Sen-Handley | Ghosts of pandemics present and past

    Lockdown hasn’t brought any more ghosting into my life than I was already subjected to as a freelance writer

    6 Jun 2020 11:59 PM IST

    Representational image (AP)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley: Smells like a cleanse'! Is it the virus or the...

    The coronavirus has claimed 27,583 lives in Britain and killed 2.38 lakhs worldwide

    3 May 2020 4:40 PM IST

    A lockdown love letter to my beautiful planetOpinion
    A lockdown love letter to my beautiful planet

    This time when I self-isolate, it will be for a better tomorrow.

    29 March 2020 3:56 PM IST

    File photo shows students protesting against Delhi Police outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University. PTI photoOpinion
    Delhi loved and lost. Will it love again?

    A college in Kutch too was painting the town red. Not with satin hearts and red velvet cupcakes, but with blood

    1 March 2020 12:30 AM IST

    (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Po-Ha! to you, mansplainers

    You wouldn’t think this innocuous cereal could sound offensive till it is shouted in your face.

    2 Feb 2020 4:26 AM IST

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