ESSAYS/ CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NOVEMBER 2021: MOVING WALL AND SEA – https://lcb.de/diplomatique/moving-wall-and-sea/
JULY 2021: NOTES TO A YOUNG WRITER ON (RE)WRITING – https://www.cleavermagazine.com/notes-to-a-young-writer-on-rewriting-revision-editing-and-other-random-terms-a-craft-essay-by-gayathri-prabhu/
MAY 2021: THE ESTABLISHING SHOT (AN EXCERPT FROM ‘SHADOW CRAFT’) – https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-establishing-shot-an-excerpt-from/
MAY 2021: A POET IN THE CLINIC: REVIEW OF INVERSE MEDICINE BY UPREET DHALIWAL – https://www.readingroomco.com/2021/05/24/a-poet-in-the-clinic-review-of-inverse-medicine-by-upreet-dhaliwal
MAY 2021: NARRATIVES OF ENDURANCE AND THE ETHICS OF LISTENING – https://ijme.in/articles/narratives-of-endurance-and-the-ethics-of-listening
MARCH 2021: JAMES IVORY, SHAKESPEARE, AND THE AESTHETIC OF SLOWNESS – https://www.cinemaazi.com/feature/james-ivory-shakespeare-and-the-aesthetic-of-slowness
FEBRUARY 2021: HOW MY PHONE TURNED INTO A NOVELLA IN PROSE POETRY – https://scroll.in/article/986641/the-true-story-of-how-my-mobile-phone-turned-my-novel-into-a-love-story-in-prose-poetry
FEBRUARY 2021: HOW A MALIGNED VIRGINIA WOOLF POINTS TO THE PROBLEM OF GENERIC INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSICS – https://scroll.in/article/986092/how-a-maligned-virginia-woolf-points-to-the-problem-of-generic-introductions-to-the-classics
JANUARY 2021: NUTAN AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ISOLATION – http://www.shethepeople.tv/home-top-video/bandini-nutan-black-and-white-cinema-and-the-performance-of-isolation
DECEMBER 2020: REEL NUMBER 13 (“WHEN SAHIB BIBI AUR GHULAM WENT MISSING”) – https://lifestyle.livemint.com/how-to-lounge/movies-tv/when-sahib-bibi-aur-ghulam-went-missing-111607876978723.html
For the rest of the essay, see here – Reel Number 13 – prabhu & govind
SEPTEMBER 2020: THE WRITER AND HER WINDOWS (memoir): The Writer and her Windows
https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/the-writer-and-her-windows-58074
SEPTEMBER 2020: ON CULT CLASSICS AND READING ELIZABETH SMART’S On Grant Central Station I Sat Down and Wept https://scroll.in/article/972250/this-cult-classic-about-a-volcanic-love-affair-between-two-poets-turns-75-this-year
JULY 2020: THE HIGHWAY THAT ATE A HOUSE (memoir) https://www.readingroomco.com/2020/07/30/the-highway-that-ate-a-house
JULY 2020: THE BLUE GOD TURNS FIFTY: THE STORYTELLING TRADITION OF AMAR CHITRA KATHA https://scroll.in/article/967163/krishna-remembering-anant-pais-iconic-amar-chitra-katha-comic-book-published-50-years-ago
JUNE 2020: LAKSHMIBAI TILAK’S ‘SMRITICHITRE’ AND HER RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE https://scroll.in/article/965219/this-memoir-explores-life-under-the-mortal-threat-of-a-pandemic-over-100-years-ago
MAY 2020: ON READING A KANNADA NOVEL: VIVEK SHANBHAG’S ‘ONDU BADI KADALU’ https://scroll.in/article/962729/why-vivek-shanbhags-kannada-novel-ondu-badi-kadalu-must-be-translated-into-other-languages
FEBRUARY 2020: VINCENT’S BEDROOM: Or Why Visit An Art Gallery When You Have the Internet – Vincent’s Bedroom
https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/vincent-van-gogh-bedroom-31343
JANUARY 2020: WHY WRITE OF LOVE IN A TIME OF STRIFE SUCH AS THIS? https://scroll.in/article/949557/why-write-of-love-in-a-time-of-strife-such-as-this-asks-a-writer-and-answers-her-question
DECEMBER 2019: HOW DO YOU RETELL A CLASSIC THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN TOLD SEVERAL TIMES OVER? https://scroll.in/article/948096/how-do-you-retell-a-classic-that-has-already-been-retold-several-times-over-ask-gayathri-prabhu
OCTOBER 2019: LESSONS IN LOVE FROM AMRITA PRITAM https://scroll.in/article/940264/when-amrita-pritam-wove-her-autobiography-around-love-she-also-demonstrated-the-many-ways-to-love
AUGUST 2019: MISS FERNS AND I: DISCOVERING A LITERARY FOREMOTHER – MISS FERNS AND I https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/miss-ferns-discovering-a-literary-foremother-12621
JUNE 2019: ON THE LITERARY MEMOIR IN INDIAN LITERATURE https://scroll.in/article/928563/indian-literature-keeps-waiting-for-the-literary-memoir-as-a-form-distinct-from-the-autobiography
FEBRUARY 2019: WHEN A TEACHER WALKS – transcript of a composition for TEDx Manipal, 2019 (full text and video on youtube) – Transcript of When a Teacher Walks
DECEMBER 2018: LIVING WITH OSCILLOPSIA AND AN EXPERIENCE OF AYURVEDA – published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. December 29, 2018.
https://ijme.in/articles/my-body-is-a-lantern-oscillopsia-and-an-experience-of-ayurveda/?galley=html
AUGUST 2018: ON WRITING A MEMOIR AND WHY A PUBLIC TELLING MATTERS – “Why Remember Why Tell: Notes from a Reluctant Memoirist” – published in the Economic and Political Weekly, August 2018 – postscript-EPW
https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/35/postscript/why-remember-why-tell.html
AUGUST 2018: ON MEDICAL THEMES IN A LITERATURE CLASSROOM – “Medical themes in a literature classroom: an alternate perspective on Medical Humanities pedagogy in India’ – published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, August 2018
JULY 2018: A COLLABORATIVE WRITING PROJECT WITH MICHAEL VARGHESE IN THE SCROLL:
Michael is an artist and writer in his early twenties. Gayathri is a novelist and taught Michael for two years at university. This is a conversational writing project about the evening that Michael attempted to end his life, and revisits the transformative experience that followed.
gayathri prabhu 