Priya Dileep
Contributor
India
Priya Dileep lives in Bangalore. Writing her 'author-bio' gives her stomach cramps.
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Susanna's Secrets
Auguste Rodin’s well-known bronze sculpture, The Secret depicts a mysterious object held between two hands [iii]. The hands around ‘the secret’ belong to two individuals....
Rats in Her Attic
I don’t remember the first time I met her. Surely, on either of my two previous visits to that dingy apartment, I must have seen...
Three Steps Away
You cannot recline on that bench. A gently arching backrest would have been nice but the bench is attached to a wall. Its legs, made...
Idle Pleasures of Zoning Out
Remember James Thurber’s Walter Mitty? That timorous, awkward geezer who slips into a fantasyland, courts danger, and performs a series of heroic feats, while actually...
In the Name of
In one of his many tributes in verse to a mother figure, probably his own, A. K. Ramanujan speaks of the strange attachment she had...
Without Rhyme of Reason
“Everything there looked foreign,” you said. That must have been in one of our early conversations though not the earliest. You were talking about your...
Under Your Flaming Shirt
You too might have done this. No, you, of all people, my friend, must have. I say that not just because I relish the security...
And Dil Came Tumbling After
“You go ahead,” he said. That at least is what he meant when he made that familiar gesture—a quick, upward-turned ruffling of the air before...
A Strange Gift
He came home from work the other day carrying, apart from his usual laptop bag, a gift box about the size of a pop-up toaster....