Articles by Nadika Nadja

Nadika is a writer and researcher with interests in history and archaeology, cities, gender, internet and that one point all these converge at. She tweets @nadjanadika

I have never been to Mahabs, as they call it. I’ve been to a city that is sometimes known as Mamallapuram, and oftentimes Mahabalipuram. These three places sort of correspond, rough shape and outline-wise, and occupy the same geographical coordinates.