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
Listening for Ghost-Voices
9 December 2018A novel borne out of an earthquake, a departed friend, and a translation from which lost voices rise. … [more]
Always Take the Weather With You
6 June 2016Walking ’round the room singing Stormy Weather At fifty-seven Mount Pleasant Street Well it’s the same room, but everything’s different… [more]
On the Shelf #31: Charles Foster
26 September 2016My bookshelf is taking on a rather wild and shaggy aspect these days, not unrelated to the fact that I’ll… [more]
On the Shelf #12 – The Little Prince
19 December 2014Seventy-two years after its publication, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince still enchants.… [more]
