Archive - pathetic fallacy

culture take #2: brimful of asha

on Asha Bhosle, what playback singing does for women on-screen, and off of it

May 2 • Meher

March 2026

culture take #1: soundtrack for a fascist imagination

What Dhurandhar’s sampling of old songs does to sonic memory

Mar 22 • Meher

a major publishing update

+ notes from AWP and wet, Lynchian Baltimore

Mar 17 • Meher

culture commentary in a time of war

from the belly of the empire, about the things that move us

Mar 2 • Meher

February 2026

ZERO CIVIC SENSE

on public life, transporting in India, and what we owe one another

Feb 20 • Meher

January 2026

who’s afraid of silence?

Telugu culture, volume, and the ubiquitousness of everything

Jan 4 • Meher

November 2025

Jesus died at 33…

…and somehow I’m still here.

Nov 29, 2025 • Meher

November 2024

"She could be a hundred different things in this world as time goes on."

Nov 28, 2024 • Meher

October 2024

kisses in grief

new lines in the sand of this writerly life, a meditation on prickled beauty

Oct 6, 2024 • Meher

April 2024

on practicing restraint

Apr 4, 2024 • Meher

November 2023

31 and counting

compulsive talking

Nov 29, 2023 • Meher

July 2023

a flat-footed anecdote

or a recount of an amateur tennis game

Jul 12, 2023 • Meher