Pinnedbolti_aurat‘Ghar’ aru Char Series: Snapshot stories from fieldwork days in Lower Assam, India (2019–21)Hello. This is a collection of brief anecdotes, observations from my fieldwork days since 2019. To give you a short background, I did my…Sep 29, 2021Sep 29, 2021
bolti_auratIn What language Does Rain Fall over Tormented Bodies?This is a story about language. Or rather languages.Sep 22, 2023Sep 22, 2023
bolti_auratI don’t know how to be angry.I have been told that I was a very angry child. My childhood stories are all about how I had hit up some aunt somewhere or slapped some…Jun 30, 2022Jun 30, 2022
bolti_auratA Non-Offensive Article on AssamAssam is beautiful. We have Kaziranga and Brahmaputra and tea-gardens. Everywhere you turn your eyes, you would see serenity and cuckoos…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
bolti_auratTo the ‘tall’ and ‘mighty’ in D-School, you disgust me!I have told this story so many times now, in front of so many people that in my head when I start to write this it does not sound original…Feb 15, 20211Feb 15, 20211
bolti_auratTen Love Poems.These ten love poems are my original work written over a span of 3 years roughly, mostly scattered as scribblings randomly all over. They…Jan 8, 2021Jan 8, 2021
bolti_auratA Bathroom of my Own.It has been a tremendous year, a year where the world was built and broken so starkly that the whirlwind has made us dizzy. For so many…Dec 22, 2020Dec 22, 2020
bolti_auratThey use BJP flags to tie up brooms tight here.As I write this, I cannot shake off the fact that 28 years ago, today is the day when Babri was demolished. I read somewhere that many…Dec 6, 2020Dec 6, 2020