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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.
    Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma. (Image by Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Confessions of an armchair cricketer

    India may have lost the World Cup, but their exuberant progress to the final won my heart again. After nearly fifteen...

    26 Nov 2023 12:18 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Merits of self-care during a bad yearOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Merits of self-care during a bad year'

    Queen Elizabeth II had declared 1992 her ‘annus horribilis’ making us titter at the time, not only because...

    8 Oct 2023 12:04 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Banquets and brickbats for crumbling KolkataOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Banquets and brickbats for crumbling Kolkata

    The three-hour drive from Puducherry to Chennai on my way back to Kolkata from the Auroville Literature Festival, where...

    24 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | South Asian marvels, but can they last?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | South Asian marvels, but can they last?

    Golgappa Week on Google reminded me that we had some crunchy phuchka shells left in our kitchen cupboard, so, we whipped...

    20 Aug 2023 12:26 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Been there, done that, got The T-shirtOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Been there, done that, got The T-shirt

    The tide of natural disasters, pandemics, and social anarchy of the last few years has been a shock to us all. But...

    15 July 2023 10:47 PM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Whos been sleeping in my bed?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Who's been sleeping in my bed?

    Remember the bewilderment of the Three Bears coming home to the mess Goldilocks had made in their woodland cottage?...

    18 Jun 2023 12:28 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | Speaking in tongues: The gift of accentsOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Speaking in tongues: The gift of accents

    In Channel 5’s excellent adaptation of PD James’ Murder Room, a witness is knocked over by a suspect’s...

    21 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?

    Little House on The Prairie’s Laura Ingalls Wilder had pronounced ‘home’ to be “the nicest word...

    23 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Jetsetting is no longer fashionable. Why not fly less to save the planet? (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Jetsetting glitzy no more, try the -'flycott-'

    “Come Flu With Me” Frank Sinatra would’ve sung had he been living in our Covid present, replacing the...

    19 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

    A winter night sky from the writers window. (Photo by arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Don’t lose sight of starry, starry nights

    “She walks in beauty like the night,” rhapsodised Byron about one of the innumerable women he’d...

    5 Feb 2023 12:57 AM IST

    What say we take a leaf out of the blissfully ignorant book of the most average Joe of all, Joey Tribbiani? (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | At the end of this year, hit refresh

    “So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over…” Beautiful, pertinent song though...

    25 Dec 2022 12:04 AM IST

    Any parent with a teen or two under their rooves will have dealt with this accelerated development this transformation of their tender tots into fully-formed individuals in the blink of a bleary, parental eye. (Photo By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Smells like teen spirit? Don’t sweat it, step...

    With my daughter’s recent birthday, I now find myself with two mercurial teenagers in the house, both in the early...

    27 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

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