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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.

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)

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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)

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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)

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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

Strictly speaking then, what afflicts men in midlife isnt menopause. Instead, they are men-who-pause. Pause in their middle years to upturn their lives. For better or worse. (Image by Arrangement)

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Shreya Sen-Handley | The good, bad and ugly of midlife blips

With never enough money to research women's troubles', this island of no-return is relatively unexplored yet

30 Jan 2022 2:06 AM IST

So, what does 2022, the Year of the Tiger, promise?

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Steve, Chom-chom, other name games people play

At birth we're given hopeful names by our generally well-intentioned parents, with which we develop a love-hate...

26 Dec 2021 3:08 AM IST

About three per cent of the UK, five per cent of the US, and 12 per cent of Finland, to name just a few, suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder in the winter! (AFP Representational Image)

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Season's affect and the comfort of darkness

In this first month of winter, in the colder reaches of the world, the nights draw near, and the days are hauntingly...

14 Nov 2021 2:42 PM IST

The difference in heights between the two stars, Sushmita and Riya Sen, is intriguing, to say the least.

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Heightism the long and the short of it

Some refer to us as vertically challenged' when trying to be polite

10 Oct 2021 9:10 AM IST

The anger of men remains more acceptable than that of women, especially women of colour. (Twitter)

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Square up in Kabul, look forward in rage

Behind every successful pacific political movement, there's controlled, empowering anger

5 Sept 2021 2:41 AM IST

Erik Renssen, Woman writing a letter, 2018, renssenartgalley.com

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Unfriend social media, it is time to get real'

It reduces interaction to likes and emojis, quantity, not quality, with little distinction made between genuine buds and...

1 Aug 2021 7:33 AM IST

The author in her garden, showing off her purple streaks.

Opinion

Shreya Sen-Handley | The wonder years start at 50

But if growing up is getting to fifty then it isn't miles away, and with my two left feet, dancing's not on my bucket...

27 Jun 2021 12:10 AM IST

On solo commutes, we should cycle everywhere we can, switching to green public transport where cycling might be hazardous, with the occasional use of an electric car when transporting the whole clan. (By arrangement)

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Back to the future', with a ticket to ride

This pandemic has opened my eyes to what's essential in my life; that which provides long-term joy over short-lived...

30 May 2021 7:44 AM IST

Weve all been here before; reassured by our leaders that theyll take firm steps to protect women, we watch history repeating as they blithely fail. (Photo: PTI)

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Connecting the Dots

After rampaging diseases, our single biggest problem is male violence

28 March 2021 4:21 AM IST