Anita Roy
writer | editor
I am a writer, editor, publisher, storyteller and performer.
Being a bit of a mongrel, a mudblood, a half-and-half, mixed race, betwixt-and-between sort of gal has shaped my outlook, my humour and my writing as much as my skin colour.
On this site you can find over 100 of my published articles – and links to the some of the books that I've either edited or contributed to. Hope you enjoy reading them; let me know what you think.Recently published
On the Shelf #59: Emma Kunz
20 May 2019One day last week, I found myself in central London with a few hours to spare before my bus back… [more]
- Asma Khan on the Darjeeling Express
20 April 2019Asma Khan and her team (photo credit: The Independent) The gaajar ka halwa came in a tiny orange dome, grooved… [more]
On the Shelf #58: Weasels, Eagles and Wonder
9 April 2019Solar eclipses are not that unusual: we get about 2 or 3 a year somewhere on earth. In August 2017,… [more]
- On the Shelf #58 – Going for a walk…
8 March 2019Walking is such a simple thing – hardly worth writing home about. Yet one step for Man was a great… [more]
- India Club – Down memory lane
7 March 2019Walk along the Strand and just past Waterloo Bridge, before you get to Somerset House, you might just see a… [more]
Featured articles
Poetry in Motion, Dance on the Page
25 January 2016Karthika Nair's reimagining of the Mahabharata in brought to the stage in Akram Khan's adaptation of Until the Lions… [more]
City of Scribes
8 December 2006Sometimes it seems that you can’t swing a cat in this city without bumping into someone who’s written a book… [more]
Love Letters
14 June 2000"Dear...". No, no that won't do. Too formal. "My dear..." Oh god, now I sound like his mother. "My dearest..."… [more]
Ticket-Passport-Money
13 December 1998Long before man had constructed the machinery of flight he had dreamt of it: Icarus and his waxy wings, Pegasus… [more]
