Archive - Outspoken-ish

Outspoken-ish Bids Farewell

August does this to us. Makes us feel like things are beginning, or ending, or beginning to end. You get the drift and might know of the feeling as…

Aug 6, 2023 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

September 2022

Outspoken-ish is 1

coming to you in an all new avatar

Sep 2, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

July 2022

Being Writer. Writer Being.

In which P examines, explores, and most importantly interrogates a few favourite romantic ideas around being a writer.

Jul 20, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

June 2022

Bingeing the Real India

A think-aloud piece by T on a few onscreen stories that show us “the real India.” Or do they? And also, who is ‘us’?

Jun 28, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

June at Outspoken-ish

Photograph by Balaji Srinivasan via Unsplash Who’s got the dibs on “real India”? Those who tell stories of rural India? (As if that’s a monolith). Those…

Jun 19, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

May 2022

All Hail Queen Oracene

Or the Case for the Invisible Woman

May 21, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

May at Outspoken-ish

Summer is here. In Northern California, we are inching closer to the 100 F/37 C mark. Heatwaves have, of course, pushed India over the mark already…

May 17, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

April 2022

Living between Languages

In which T talks about reading and writing like a translator

Apr 27, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

April at Outspoken-ish

Lost in Translation, Aakhir Kyon?

Apr 19, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

March 2022

Spring in the Hills

Bees Saal Pehle, or is it Baad?

Mar 18, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

March at Outspoken-ish

Spring on our minds

Mar 14, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

February 2022

Trauma as Drama

In which T explores who suffers in our stories and why?

Feb 27, 2022 •

Torsa Ghosal and Pooja Pande

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