Sathya has an urgent errand to run and hopes that her trusty moped will see her through. Vani writes about Sathya’s afternoon.
A woman writing is a way of occupying and creating history, says Vani Viswanathan.
What does it mean to be a fan of a popular person who has changed over the years? Vani talks about her recent years as a Rahman fan who isn’t able to quite process the new things he does.
A group of cousins recollect the number of times their grandfather ‘let go’, wondering at his resilience and resolution to carry on despite setbacks. Vani’s story questions people’s ideas of when one is supposed to have ‘let go’.
Two women wait at a temple for different reasons. What happens when they see each other? Vani writes a short story.
Anandhi, a young girl from Chennai at the turn of the millennium, wants to be a sports writer. But that isn’t easy, for more reasons than one. Vani’s story is about a phase in the journey of a young girl who has begun to question gender norms.
Nighat teaches the story’s narrator how to make tea, and friendship blossoms, with tea at the centre of it all – until they meet again, seventeen years later. Vani tells the story.
Vani describes her journey tracking greenery in Delhi, something that had never caught her eye or crossed her mind before.
