I was going to pay money to feel terrified for 11 seconds but I knew, from the moment I booked my tickets to New Zealand, that I was going to do it.

BY Diksha Basu 16 September 2014

Lots of people, my grandmother included, fast on a regular basis; one day would be simple. Or so I thought...

BY Diksha Basu 6 August 2014

Mourn not yet the death of bookshops and literature—a Norwegian writer, now living in Sweden, is a surprising, relieving phenomenon that is sweeping the world.

BY Diksha Basu 25 June 2014

Does 'authenticity' lie in the object of an experience or in the subject having the experience? Who is qualified to give an 'authentic' description of a place?

BY Diksha Basu 26 March 2014

Maybe Bandra changed or maybe I changed or, more likely, we both changed and are now being forced to reconfigure our relationship.

BY Diksha Basu 12 February 2014

There were two things that really stood out for me. The first, all over Punjab, was the lack of women in public. The second was the music. Music is everywhere. Punjab definitely moves to a beat.

BY Diksha Basu 11 December 2013

One that is somehow not accessible to someone who happens to visit only places such as Jaipur, Agra, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Kerala...?

BY Diksha Basu 19 November 2013

Last week when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize, it was more than just a writer I admire winning the prize.

BY Diksha Basu 13 October 2013