The Frangipani Journals - Chryselle DSilva Dias

It’s been 6 years and 2 months since I’ve been here

and I didn’t miss it at all. When all the Substacks came thundering in, I thought of this little blog and how much it meant to me to be writing regularly, without an assignment, all the way f…...

2 Years Ago

Everyday Love Letters

I’m an enthusiastic letter writer, so it comes as little surprise that when inspiration strikes, I make the most of it and send out missives like there’s no tomorrow. We’re just b…...

8 Years Ago

Consent before Colour - leave us alone this Holi

Growing up in cosmopolitan Bombay meant throwing yourself wholeheartedly into every festival that came your way. So as Holi approached, we stockpiled coloured powder wrapped up in newspaper from th…...

9 Years Ago

#52essays2017

One of my many goals for my writing career in 2016 was to send out 5 completed essays. Not pitches, but completed stories that may have paid in real money. Or not. While I received commissions for …...

9 Years Ago

8 Ways to Draw an Elephant (Tara Books)

Two of my resolutions this year were to draw more and to review more children’s books on this blog. I was so pleased then, to be able to experiment with the absolutely lovely ‘8 Ways to…...

9 Years Ago

Once upon a chole bhature

I wrote this little essay for Roads and Kingdoms. When I pitched the idea, it was going to be all about the food and the flavour and crackle of the sizzling pattice on the tava. Midway through writ�...

10 Years Ago

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