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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.

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)

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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

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | To India, With Love

To paraphrase that popular maxim, you can take the girl out of India, but you can't take India out of the girl!

21 Aug 2022 12:17 AM IST

A still from the Welsh National Operas Migrations which depicts the experience of Indian doctors working in the NHS featuring Natasha Agarwal as Neera and Jamal Andreas as Jai. (Credit: Craig Fuller)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | The unsung benefit of pursuing the arts

The arts and sciences aren't combatants. When born of creative minds, they are complementary

17 July 2022 12:15 AM IST

I padded about happily on my naked-as-the-day-they-were-born feet, as if on a sunny beach, and felt an incredible sense of freedom that no censorious glance could stymie. (Representational Image/ By Arrangement)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | The happy looser's cheerful musings

Let sandals snap and house keys hide, false friends fall away and gossip abide

29 May 2022 12:29 AM IST

Incapable of such eloquence ourselves, we can certainly see how this month, with all the beauty and fresh infusions of natural life that it brings, rejuvenates us too, putting a spring in our steps and stirring hope. (By Arrangement)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | April showers bring bunnies and flowers

Knowing that all's not lost encourages us to pull up our socks, and set the world to rights

17 April 2022 12:03 AM IST

Some of us, you see, have been left with Long Covid, and almost all of us with Long Anxiety, which is not just another fallout of the pandemic, but a pandemic in its own right. (Photo by arrangement)

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | Mothers' dreams, and why they must be taken...

The climate crisis, the pandemic, this new war, are REAL, and so's the anxiety!

20 March 2022 12:29 AM IST