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About the AuthorShreya Sen-Handley
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.
    Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Bedroom in Arles, 1888Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Ode to sleep, and sleepless spirits

    Lack of sleep not only fuels fatigue, however, and bodily dissonance, it could also introduce a psychological kink

    28 Feb 2021 4:42 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump walks over to speak with the press after arriving on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown. (AP)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Trump, and the art of leaving

    But was it also Trump's bid to trash Washington and American democracy, if he could no longer preside over it

    24 Jan 2021 7:29 AM IST

    Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar City, was reeling under winter chill and witnessed the seasons first snowfall earlier this month. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Winter upon us, so's the season of scapegoating

    Winter is nearly here, and will be a long litany of horrors, unless we act to prevent them.

    1 Nov 2020 4:51 PM IST

    Picture credits: Stephen HandleyOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata Kumroween' & other COVID sacrifices

    There can be no Kumroween this year. No festivities of any sort for us in Kolkata

    4 Oct 2020 6:23 PM IST

    A couple kiss as they visit an outdoor light immersive experience exhibition during the 2020 Beijing International Light Festival at a park in Beijing. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | The pandemic kissiquette

    Since kissing from two metres away is a physical impossibility, this rule isn't hard to maintain except for politicians...

    28 Aug 2020 8:00 PM IST

    Of course China and India are not the only perpetrators, or even the worst. Historically the European nations have displayed an enormous appetite for appropriation. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley | Is nationality fluid, are borders futile?

    What are borders but human constructs, appealing to our basest instincts cruelty and greed?

    6 July 2020 7:05 PM IST

    Representational imageOpinion
    Ghosts of pandemics present and past

    Lockdown hasn't brought any more ghosting into my life than I was already subjected to as a freelance writer

    6 Jun 2020 7:16 PM IST

    Representational image (AP)Opinion
    Shreya Sen-Handley: Smells like a cleanse'! Is it the virus or the...

    The coronavirus has claimed 27,583 lives in Britain and killed 2.38 lakhs worldwide

    3 May 2020 4:44 PM IST

    I will get my hands in the soil and nose in flour, my fingers inky with new writing and missives to the elderly and my eyes set firmly on the beautiful four who are my world.Opinion
    A lockdown love letter to my beautiful planet

    This time when I self-isolate, it will be for a better tomorrow.

    29 March 2020 4:06 PM IST

    File photo shows students protesting against Delhi Police outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University. (PTI photo)Opinion
    Delhi loved and lost. Will it love again?

    A college in Kutch too was painting the town red. Not with satin hearts and red velvet cupcakes, but with blood.

    1 March 2020 4:18 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump plans to make a \major statement\ at the White House at 9 am EST (1300 GMT) on Sunday, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said late on Saturday. (Photo: File)Opinion
    New poster boys of an old vocabulary

    You wouldn't think this innocuous cereal could sound offensive till it is shouted in your face.

    2 Feb 2020 6:32 AM IST

    Leander PaesSports
    Rio 2016: Moments of glory

    The Olympics have not been a happy hunting ground for India’s athletes — they have won only 26 medals in 116...

    31 July 2016 6:59 AM IST

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