Hallo dear. With great pomp and circumstance, I would like to announce the release of my next book called 'Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man'. This lovely cover was done by the extremely talented Radha Sundar . Now what can I say about this new book. First of all, the title is predictably obnoxious and I'm so sorry. For those who are familiar with the Tamil Nadu State Board textbooks from the 90s, you may recall that in the Civics section, one o

Hallo fam! I just wanted to impinge on your precious time to inform you of the following * The new installment of my column Stories From the Radio at Strange Horizons is up! It's about Buck Rogers! Like it has been for the past 27 years! * The new installment of my Rolling Stone column is also up! I write about all my feelings on discovering some English songs sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Soviet Jazz! * Again, I wanted to mention Storycakes, which posts original, audio fiction

Hai. I am writing here today, after very long time, to share the following information. * My column with First Post has sadly ended. I'm not sure if anyone read it, but if you did, you can't anymore, sry. * I am writing original, audio stories for children at a Youtube channel called Storycakes. They are not that weird, although there is one story about a mushroom that catches a cold. And bees on skis. And someone buys a giant shoe for some reason. Anyway, it would also be g

My dearest, most deliscious and refreshing fam, it would be cool if you could read these though I totally understand if you don't want to. My Allegedly Problematic column in First Post which talks about problematic movies I enjoy because I am stupid My Stories from the Radio column at Strange Horizons where I listen to Buck Rogers while my country gets shafted by Covid My new fiction piece at The White Review called 'Items That Have Gone Missing Inside the Lucy Temerlin Insti

Hai dears, please listen to this podcast if you are so inclined thank you

Hullo fam! Requesting you to kindly see the following internet writings at the earliest 'Allegedly Problematic' at First Post, where I revisit the movie Chinna Thambi and am grossed out by how gross it was you guys wtf 'Stories From the Radio' at Strange Horizons and I have just two words for you- Rocket. Police. I'm not even kidding fam.

Hai! Have you ever wanted to read a column about the alleged problematicness of the Tamil movie Paatukku Naan Adimai AND a kind-of-but-not-really review of a Buck Rogers radio play from 1939? Really? That's really weird! But it's also your lucky day! Allegedly Problematic- Paatukku Naan Adimai at First Post Stories From the Radio- Buck Rogers at Strange Horizons

hai fam! this week's Allegedly Problematic column at First Post is about that toothy treat from 1992, Singaravelan! singaravela! why da for you like that?

Hallo. I say that in the confidence that no one reads this anymore barring Illustrious Acquaintance who will read this just to be rude.

My second collection of short fiction called Things We Found During the Autopsy is now available from Blaft. This the front cover, designed by Prabha Mallya.   And this is the back cover. And this is the trailer for my book, which I like very much because it contains, among other things, someone performing superdance, a man being enthusiastic while holding a trumpet, and Eye Brand cola. Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel If you feel like buying this boo

This blog post is late because, to quote the school leave letter of my youth, I was suffering from fever. This blog post title is from the the song If You Come Today which I watched recently because I like to watch it from time to time because I like to watch it. The comments section for this song offers varied forms of entertainment because people generally say the same thing, namely this stupid Indian song is so stupid because he sounds like all those stupid Indians who tal

Even though I blogged extensively about Ronn Moss last weekend, it behooves me to blog again this weekend because frankly, I feel like whining. What does this mean? It means that this blog is having its period, so shit’s about to get all emo and uterusy up in here. The good news is that I won’t be blogging next weekend.  So did yougaiz see this yougaiz? Tote bags, t-shirts, coffee mugs and fridge magnets that say Namaste, Bitches and have that folded Indian hands thing that I

This blog post title is taken from the song ‘I’m Your Man’ by Ronn Moss who is that guy who played Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. This line is about taking melancholic people home in order to stuff various baked goods into their eyes. Like ohai, you haz a sad? Come to my house, I put LazeezDoubleChickenDoubleEggRoll in your face. This selfsame song has another line that goes ‘if you want some fishes in your ocean, some magic in your potion, I’m your man.’ And

I’m not sure if anyone stops by here anymore but if you do, ohai! I have come back after a longish hiatus which involved moving out of the smalltempletown. I am slightly sadface about this because the smalltempletown was the best third world writer cred ever. When people would tell me that they had an MFA, which back in the day I assumed was some kind of urinary infection, I would say ohai I come from smalltempletown in South India and even though they never really said anyth

This blog post title is a good example of how I learn something new and amazing about Indian culture every day. I thought a tawa was used for the cooking purposes. Little did I know that this contraption is actually for holding all that Indian culture together. Did you know this? I did not know this. I think so this is what makes Indian women so great so hats off to you gals and congrats on your hot iron girdles, thank you for your efforts in supporting Indian culture.  I now

Haifraans. I unfortunately have come back in the return. With myself, I bring this wholly incoherent and incomprehensible blog post consisting of things I have seen/heard/read/thought about in the last couple of months. The post is too long also and I am so sorry. Okso these are some interesting lines that I thought were interesting. I am very much not aware and least bothered also I feel this is a great thing to say in general. It is also very helpful in so many situations i

Hay yougaiz! Remember once upon a time like about a week ago everyone kept talking about something called AnnaHazareIssue? Remember that? Since we’re not talking about that anymore, does it mean we won? Please answer me yes or no. Anywaiz, this blog post title is stolen from The Illustrated Weekly of India Annual 1973- The New Landscape of India. It is from the essay on Gujarat and these illustrious words can be found nestled beneath a black and white picture of a very large

You know how there’s these groups on Facebook that say JOIN ONLY IF YOU REALLY LOVE INDIA AND ARE TRUE SON OF BHARAT MATA and the allcaps scare you and stuff so you hesitate to join and then all these peeps are like ‘wtf, why didn’t you join the group you fucking terrorist.’ So then you poke around the group a little and you find comments like ‘kashmir belongs to india all muslims should remember this is HINDUstan’ and ‘clearly this aruna roy female is lesbian for opposing ja

Dear whoever landed on this blog in the hopes of finding ‘west mambalam free raped girls phone number’, not to sound all judgy and stuff but WTF??!!1111 Also you are gross. To continue in the wtf vein, a certain Maureen Chao who is allegedly Vice Consul of illustrious US Consulate allegedly spoke about her Foreigner in Indian Train experience which is not that interesting but allegedly the experience made her so dirty and dark that she had to tell us that ‘I became dirty and

This blog post title is something I would like to talk about a little later. First, did I mention I have an echapbook out called ‘Eating Sugar, Telling Lies’ which you can buy and enjai like anything? Did I also mention that my collection with the tediously long title is now available as an ebook so you don’t have to wander all over the countryside trying to find it? Didn’t mention? Ok so I have mentioned it now. Now can we talk about the slew of shirtless dudes that have app