Kanika Sharma

A thing is a thing. To humans, however, things make all the difference. They fill gaps in our lives in ways we never imagined. Consider this. A driver’s licence is a small piece of paper that says we can drive on a country’s roads. “But also — the...

A debut writer’s short story about a college-going girl catastrophically dating a 30-something man now needs no introduction on social media. The very idea of a piece of fiction going viral is unprecedented in the history of The New Yorker, admits the...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is impossible to talk about Jane Austen without quoting Jane Austen. Pakistani journalist Laaleen Sukhera, who runs the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP), decided to follow tradition. She saw Lizzy...

METOO #INCLUSIONRider #BeBoldForChange… The battlefront may have changed from marches to hashtags, but the fight for gender equality continues to be waged. Proof lies in Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s recent column for The Guardian, where she wrote,...

Sci-fied reality is very much here and now. The twenty-first century arrived almost twenty years ago, and it is no surprise that flying taxis, choppers in space, bot-human love stories or even the existence of a new species existence get written every...

Death is a lonely thing, even for those left behind. Three years ago, around midnight, digital marketing executive Annkur Pandey discovered just how lonely. His father died, suddenly, from a cancer that had been showing signs of remission. Pandey's...

In 2014, as la roya raged across Central America, 70% of coffee fields took a hit. Yields plunged, 500,000 people lost jobs and losses totalled approximately $1 billion (around Rs6,400 crore now). Today, demand far outstrips supply. The only exception...

How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and...

What do you associate with Ganeshotsav — modaks, pandal-hopping, the exuberant mayhem of visarjan day? What about idlis, meat and alcohol? Miniature silver telephones and carom boards? Or a Gauri idol who is joined by an idol of her friend? In a...