Narrative| Goa | Unmapped Magazine

A house painted blue. A balcony with an unobstructed divine view. Coconut and Chikoo (Manilkara zapota) trees in the courtyard right in front. Chikoos sneakily being gobbled up by monkeys who made a special appearance only on Sundays. Daily routines that involved working for a few hours in the mornings, leisure cooking, making gimlets, walking at the beach and sometimes into the sea, nuzzling into the rough yet soothing sand, curling up with Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin, clicking pictures of the bold colored Portuguese styled villas, making new friends at the beach, listening to Goan music at shacks that tenderly tussled with the sound of waves, getting freshly baked bread from the French Bakery (Baba Au Rhum) downstairs, working some more, cooking some more.

This is a glimpse into my life for two months in Goa (India) last year. READ ON: 

http://www.unmappedmag.com/issue-36/the-fashion-of-freedom/

Narrative | Protestant Cemetery, Rome | Unmapped Magazine

Protestant Cemetery, Rome

A second-hand, slightly battered book with a mustard color cover was my first introduction to a bunch of poets referred to as the Romantics. Blame it on the first year of graduation when English literature was raining down on me like fish from the sky, that I was fascinated by the Romantics’ vivacious and crazy lives much more than their work. A wobbly B&W movie screening where most of them, mainly Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John Keats, were mingling in an astoundingly reckless party made that morbid fascination stronger. Of course, over the years, I got better acquainted and enchanted with their works too.

13 years later, I found myself in Italy’s capital Rome where two of the great poets from the Romantics’ disruptive and brilliant group- Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats – lived for some time, died and then were buried in the Protestant Cemetery....
Read on: http://www.unmappedmag.com/issue-35/protestant-cemetery-rome/

Feature | A Designer's City: Conversations on Creative Bombay | Unmapped Magazine

Between the chaos of life and the tranquillity of the sea, Bombay has many facets indeed. The famous or infamous indomitable spirit of the city, the humans behind what is now an international case study - the dabbawallas, the impeccable yet rickety Mumbai local trains, the largest slums in Asia, Dharavi, the largest red light district in Asia, Kamathipura, the historical architecture of the town, the charmed life and bohemia of Bandra, the vast spaces of crowding suburbs, the snarling traffic, the ubiquitous black and yellows, the filth, the vibrant nightlife, the burgeoning street art, the heady concoction of different types of people, and so much more. Bombay is indeed one of the world’s truly unique cities, both for its offerings and its quirks.
READ MORE: http://www.unmappedmag.com/issue-31/designers-city-conversations-on-creative-bombay/