Articles by Srija U

Srija is a former Teaching Fellow in the literature department at Ashoka University. Her research interests focus on the intersection between desire, queerness and forms of literature. She will soon be pursuing a PhD in English from Columbia University.

The Gifts of the City Come with Strings Attached

July 1, 2022

I learnt the verbal construction of grammatically correct English sentences for the first time in Class IV when my friends secretly chuckled at my mispronounced words. Until then, I hadn’t realised that my excessive knowledge of Tamil had done nothing to win them over. The convent school in my small town seemed to like my English; what happened along the way?

Rajam Akka, Buzzcut

November 10, 2020

Beyond gender categories, there is the actual living of lives. Srija met Rajam Akka in a chance encounter at a construction site.