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Pages from a Diary

Personal essays and emotive histories

Essays

The First Supper

Sneha Roychoudhury -
In the first year of undergraduate school, unable to conjure the words for “homesick” and “lonely” in an unfamiliar city, I wrote ever so...
Pages from a Diary

‘Gutawa Khich’ by Gia Singh Arora

ALMA Staff -
"Filming ma while cooking in Falmouth, UK." A short film by Gia Singh Arora
Pages from a Diary

Of Silver Spoons and August Moons

David Ward -
"Jack Kennedy, Joe’s second son, had just reached his twenties, and my mother had two or three years on him, but he was soon deeply smitten by her Latin charms."
Pages from a Diary

On Dogs, The Odyssey & Life At Large

Gaurav Kamath -
“Ulysses shed a tear; I only dirtied a linen shirt.”
Pages from a Diary

Himalayan Foothills

Clancy Martin -
“We kept looking at our two-year-old like: we know we have to take care of you, but we don’t know what to do.”
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The Angel of Tsomang

Kaustav Sood -
“Returning was, in many ways, harder than setting out had been. My nerves were wrecked, I couldn’t feel my legs, and the silence had finally caught up to me.”
Pages from a Diary

Experiences of London’s Popular Music in the Nineteen-Sixties

David Ward -
A decade of musical vibrancy—from Hendrix’s first London gig to Jagger’s troublesome locks

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