Vedika Ochani

Sri City: “They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has...

Sri City: I come from a people who pray five times a day and make tea. I admire the way they do both. How they drop to the ground...

Makeup, an object of vanity or voice? The year was around the 1960s. My grandmother, a twenty-something-year-old income tax officer in...