Deepika KhatriDrive my carLast week, I was driving back from the airport with Coke Studio’s Nimrohiya for company. Even at the 40 km/h crawl that the sea of metallic…Aug 16, 2022Aug 16, 2022
Deepika KhatriOf bird song and love storiesThe spring is come, I hear the birds that sing from bush to bush. I hear them sing. The linnet and the little wren, the blackbird and the…Apr 13, 2022Apr 13, 2022
Deepika KhatriWhat’s in a name?“Aapki shaadi legal nahin hai. Yeh farzi hai (Your marriage is illegal),” said the lawyer in the black coat and white shirt, dismissively…Mar 16, 2022Mar 16, 2022
Deepika KhatriListening to the earthPuhpowee, ‘the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight’, writes Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book, Braiding…Aug 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021
Deepika KhatriIt Isn’t Just Food. It’s Community.In May this year, our 11-year old neighbour trotted down to hand A two jars of homemade mango chutney — an offering to bring cheer to his…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
Deepika KhatriTo walk in this worldIn the early days of the lockdown, I found myself stepping out of the house every few days on one or the other pretext. ‘We need bananas’…Jun 17, 20201Jun 17, 20201
Deepika KhatriIn Loving MemoryMemory is an invitation to the source of our life, to a fuller participation in the now, to a future about to happen, but ultimately to a…Nov 3, 2019Nov 3, 2019
Deepika KhatriHouse, or vegetable patch?Soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease…Aug 14, 2019Aug 14, 2019
Deepika KhatriThe EyrieA late blooming, solitary red rhododendron flower reaches up to the skyJul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019
Deepika KhatriIn the embrace of silenceGolden brown and shimmering under the sun that touches its body after the rain, a slug makes its way across the path. Six inches long…Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
