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Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of the award-winning 'Memoirs of My Body', short story collection 'Strange', and new travelogue 'Handle With Care', and a columnist and playwright. Her Twitter and Insta handle is @shreyasenhan.

Finding Peace in Chaos: Embracing Personalized Self-Care. (Image: Freepik)

Opinion

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

We'd still need doctors though, and shrinks, and most of all, arts practitioners.

8 Oct 2023 12:03 AM IST

Kolkata continues to adore food; evident in the mushrooming of cafes and bistros at every corner, and a desirable development for a change. (Image by arrangement)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | Banquets and brickbats for crumbling Kolkata

That feeling of homecoming hasn't diminished any over the years.

24 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

Indian Spiderman. (Photo by arrangement)

Opinion

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

In cinema outside the subcontinent, however, South Asian representation is negligible at best.

20 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

The author, in the company of her ginger-haired husband at the Birmingham concert of her favourite singer, wearing the T-shirt for it. (Photo by arrangement)

Opinion

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

Will everything in my future be a version of something that's already happened?

16 July 2023 12:30 AM IST

Talking of cultural differences in sleeping, Indian families can snooze very differently to their Western counterparts. (Photo by arrangement)

Opinion

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

The size of our beds has grown over the ages, and that's as much about evolution as it is about socioeconomics.

18 Jun 2023 12:31 AM IST

Our response to voices is reverberatingly complicated. There is, for example, this deeply unfair perception that lighter voices belong to intellectual lightweights. Photo by arrangement.

Opinion

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

English spoken in any accent other than their own can have the British flummoxed, or worse scrambling to correct your...

21 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

To some, including author James Baldwin, home doesnt require external trapping.

Opinion

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

Think about what you'd rescue in a residential fire and you'll know what home is

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'

Far from the glamorous mode of transportation it once was, not even catering for basic human needs, air travel is now...

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

After all, can anything be more arresting than the night sky?

5 Feb 2023 12:56 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

In the year's dying days, let's celebrate the life we've shaped. Commemorate the things we got right, and discount our...

25 Dec 2022 9:32 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...

The fallout is an odd mix of terror at losing control, excited anticipation at what comes next, and even relief

27 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Who wore the nattier mourning hat Kate or Meghan? (Photo By Arrangement)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | What Chucky did next, and other regal musings

Pointing inquisitors to this column every time a royal question is popped, I'd be at liberty to return to my pleasantly...

2 Oct 2022 12:15 AM IST