MADE IN INDIA

My name looks different depending on who writes it. On my school notebook, it appears in English. My grandfather writes it in his language. My neighbour writes it in another script entirely.

My grandmother speaks English perfectly well. She simply refuses to use it for certain things. “What’s the English word for this?” I once asked while she was serving dinner. She looked at

A Story from an Indian School Library There was one book in our school library that always sat beside the window. Its cover was blue, its corners were bent, and its title