Essays by Dipika Mukherjee
A collection of essays exploring travel, ecology, literature, culture, identity, and the many places where personal experience meets the wider world.
Travel & Ecology
Why Albania is more than just its links with modern-day saint Mother Teresa, 30 July 2022
Tribute: Saluting the talent and bravery of slain Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui. The Edge, July 26, 2021
Tears and Song. Pandemic Dispatches. World Literature Today. NOMINATED FOR THE PUSHCART PRIZE, 2021
Culture & Identity
To Keep My Brother Alive, I Will Fly 7,500 Miles. Los Angeles Review of Books, May 6, 2021
After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again? Scroll India, April 17 2021
Terrorism Finds No Room Here. Newsweek. March 29, 2021,
People & Places
Age of Elegance. The Edge, Singapore. February 10, 2021,
Hope and Mangroves. Orion Magazine, USA. Winter 2020, 10-11, December 2, 2020,
Sudah makan? Malaysian stories and building a sense of community through food, The Edge, Malaysia. Nov 11, 2020
Cross-Cultural Reflections
A Journey to the Dalai Lama, Writer’s Postcard, The Edge, Malaysia. September 2019
Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan. Cultural Cross Sections. World Literature Today, USA. July 2019
Beacons of Inspiration: Cover Story, Option, The Edge, Malaysia. April 2019