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The Sheltering programme, kept from that night in Brisbane.

We Are One

Three separate works, poured into one evening. A show about shelter that paused so a room of strangers could become one. Notes from Bangarra's Sheltering, and the quiet line running from Meanjin to Madurai.
Crispy masala dosa served on a banana leaf with tomato and coconut chutney

The World Ranked Our Dosa. We Have Feelings.

Masala dosa just made it to sixth on a global pancake list. Sixth. In a country where 99.99 out of hundred makes parents wail in despair. But that is not why I am unsettled. It is the list itself that is the problem.
A baggage handler in an orange shirt arranges suitcases on the carousel at Delhi's Terminal 3

The Airport That Never Loses Your Bag

A process can be copied. A checklist can be shared. But the thing that makes someone arrange a stranger's bag at 4am, thirty years in, with nobody watching and no applause coming, that cannot be transferred in a training manual. It has to be believed. One airport understood this. The results speak for themselves.

The Weight of Forever

I stood there and could not move. Hundreds of thousands of locks. Every size. Every colour. Each one carrying two names and one enormous hope. That this would last. That nothing would change.

Audit of Me: A December Reflection on Time, Attention, and Patterns

I tried to fit a year into seven kilos and failed in interesting ways. What followed was a quiet audit of time, attention, and the small patterns that shape our days.

Lightly, Child, Lightly

When you loosen your grip, even a cup of coffee feels wiser.

Traveler vs. Tourist: How to Truly Experience a Place

Trapped in Feedback: A Day in the Life of Ratings and Reviews

Travel For Growth

Every time I have stood in the queue of a land where I clearly am ‘foreign’ irrespective of the passport I hold, I learn something new. Especially so, when am not peering into my phone or consumed by the desire to see more.

Travel: More Than Just Seeing