Selina Sheth Posts

First published in the series My Literary Wanderings by Saaranga Books in June 2022.

According to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “The first half of life is the text; the second supplies its commentary.”

With gratitude to Steven Pressfield’s The War Of Art, Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Vikram Chandra’s Granthika series lecture A Thriving Writing Life, The Yoga Institute, Santa Cruz, Mumbai.

Gustave Flaubert famously said : “Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

First published by The New York Times in August 2021.

My father Nanak and I were bad at goodbyes.

First published in the Monsoon Quarterly edition of The Woman Inc. in October 2021.

“Rain has the power to hypnotize,” writes Haruki Murakami in his dream-like novel South Of The Border, West Of The Sun.

First published by Nether Quarterly in December 2020 and then by Literally Stories in January 2022.

Blue is the colour of anxiety, the smell of despair, the sound of confusion, the taste of fear, the touch of doubt.

First published by Kitaab International (South Asia) in October 2020 and then by Spillwords Press in May 2022.

‘L’ámor che move il sole e l’ áltre stelle.’

First published by The Bangalore Review in September 2020.

What you seek is seeking you, Sara reads, a languid smile on her 26-year-old lips as she flips through a faded blue notebook and pauses, as always, to absorb Rumi’s eternal quote on the electro-physics of love.

First published by Out Of Print in September 2020 : read also here and here.

You are told many things, but never the truth.

You’ve stumbled upon one of those free online workshops that announce themselves, every now and then, via dubious newsletters that go straight to spam.

First published by Juggernaut Books in the summer of 2017.

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