ESSAYS WRITTEN BY ME

(16 DECEMBER 2024, BORDERLESS JOURNAL) Mohul returns with the sequel to his previous work of creative short-fiction, The Last Hyderabadi. Read on to know more about the passage of an era and how autumn affects the first city of the Deccan.

(15 JULY 2024, BORDERLESS JOURNAL) Wasn’t it George Bernard Shaw who said that politics was the last resort of the scoundrel? Read Mohul's first-ever attempt at short fiction - teeming with his love for Hyderabad and Dakhni - even as it climbs the ranks on the top ten lists across the country!

(14 MARCH 2024, BORDERLESS JOURNAL) Sri Lanka can be savoured best via its street food stalls; the aroma of the spices that emanates from the flurry of dishes left drying in the hot sun is supposed to hold the flavour of the country in its entirety. Read Mohul's travelogue written while criss-crossing the country.

(26 JANUARY 2024, IN THE KNOW TRAVELLER) A discursive account of Malaysia and what makes it tick, making it one of the oft-remembered and most-visited archipelagoes in Southeast Asia.

(14 DECEMBER 2023, BORDERLESS JOURNAL) An introduction to the vast meadows of the Wayanad district of Kerala, India.

(14 AUGUST 2023, BORDERLESS JOURNAL) An essay remembering a time spent in the company of swaying palms and whistling groves.

(14 MAY 2023, INDIAN PERIODICAL) The club has brought Hyderabad back on the footballing map after decades in exile, and a lovely system remains in place where we will continue to churn performances out on a regular basis.

(7 MAY 2023, INDIAN PERIODICAL) A penalty shootout is never the appropriate course of action to determine victors at the end of a hard-fought season

(22 FEBRUARY 2023, LIVEWIRE) I combat the heat that buffets me as soon as the train enters the Konkan coast and floats past me as a phantom would.  An essay on my backpacking across the western coast of India.

(21 NOVEMBER 2022, LIVEWIRE) An essay on the magnificence and munificence that Pondicherry has to offer, recollected from a solo holiday in the former French East Indies.

(10 SEPTEMBER 2022, THE TIMES OF INDIA) Rock music has held its own over the ages; can it continue doing so in the future as well?

 (10 AUGUST 2022, THE TIMES OF INDIA) On how the arrival of the new Premier League season has brought very little cheer for the Red Devils.

(28 JULY 2022, LIVEWIRE) An essay of gratitude for the musician who is a genius at making despair seem like a feeling that is savoured best with a garnish of soul-searching. 

(18 APRIL 2022, LIVEWIRE) From reading Seth in school to giving his works a place of pride on my bookshelf, to this very day the writer gets me like no one else does. 

(09 APRIL 2022, THE TIMES OF INDIA) An essay on the circumstances that led to two-time winners Italy not qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

(20 FEBRUARY 2022, THE TIMES OF INDIA) What good has organised religion done for the world?

(28 JANUARY 2022, LIVEWIRE) God has been humanised, the idea of a fallible formless entity inundated and the search for the truth lost somewhere in between. 

(19 JANUARY 2022, LIVEWIRE) My spirit was being assailed relentlessly, and I could not exist in such a counterfeit world.

(21 DECEMBER 2021, LIVEWIRE) Life has not moved an inch for Calcutta from when the hard-headed empire-builder Warren Hastings took residence in 1772. And yet, a lot has changed.