It's A Tehelka Festivus Miracle!!

Are you one of the many people who have been thinking "Hey! I wonder if Shalini Umachandran and Jai Undurti have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom or maybe they are already dead!"

Think no more!

We have just received Proof of Life pics of these illustrious people, posing with the latest Tehelka issue opened exactly at the Anarch page! Yay! Let's take a look at them, shall we?




This is Shalini Umachandran. She is smiling and happy. Whoever kidnapped her must be supernice people. She is so happy and smiling that she is not able to hold the magazine properly. Still, this is a Festivus Miracle so we do not judge her.



This is Jai Undurti. He is not smiling and happy. He is so not smiling and happy that he is able to hold the magazine very effectively. Maybe he is still upset about the time he was so-close-yet-so-far-away from the infamous Delhi Haagen Dazs.

Big big tanks for sending these in, we are all sotremendously happy that you are alive, though we're not really sure where you are. A Real Festivus Miracle!!

k

New Story in Tehelka's Fiction Issue

The Second Annual Tehelka Fiction Issue is up and in keeping with its theme of Injury, I am posting this frog* whose stomach seems to have come undone right at the buttons to reveal an assorted range of punctured eggs. Ouchie.

I am very pleased to have my story Anarch included in this issue. Extra very pleased that the word 'fuck' was not written as 'f**k' and that the unEnglish words were not italicized so they could stand proud and unatrophied like their soEnglish counterparts.

Big tanks to Nisha Susan and the rest of Team Tehelka.

k

*detail from The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. Photo: Lefevre