How to tell a story?

A personal story. A story of me … of you … of them … of us.

How to tell our story?

Linear narratives don’t quite capture the craziness, complexities, ambiguities, constant tensions, humanness. Not just our personal baggage and failings, but how to speak when those meet the social: colonialism, apartheid, racism, religious ethnic patriarchy, poverty, sex.

How to speak and not be a ‘type’, ‘representative’, ‘indicative’, ‘archetypal’?

How to tell a story of an Indian when you are not a Gupta, a Mahatma, a middle-class intellectual?