Anandi Mishra

Critic, Delhi, India

Anandi Mishra is a critic based in Delhi. She has written for publications including The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, Public Books, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She is a former reporter for The Times of India and The Hindu.

Written by Anandi Mishra

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PLACE

The divided self: does where I live make me who I am?

At home in Delhi, I am a more social, interactive person. A quiet balcony in Frankfurt gave me space to be by myself

by Anandi Mishra

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STORIES AND LITERATURE

On the pleasures of hand-writing letters you’ll never send

Hand-writing letters you’ll never send takes the heat off feelings and lets you look back on drafts of a previous self

by Anandi Mishra

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ALTERED STATES

Here’s to my lovely, incandescent relationship with alcohol

Liquid gold, social pass, window on to the past, filter of life experience: my love affair with alcohol has no downside

by Anandi Mishra