In India, my father asks me to slow down the car at the sight of a speed breaker and not a speed bump. I love the pasta Kareena Aunty makes, not the one Aunty Kareena makes. In India, when you pester someone, they’ll ask you to “not eat their head.” Your boss doesn’t pressure you […]
Palak Godara
PALAK GODARA is a fashion journalism student at Parsons school of Design, New York City. She loves the concept of magazines and confesses her bias towards glossy ones. When she is not relishing a Pret Pesto Caprese Baguette or walking 20,000 steps around the city, she is interning at Photobook Magazine as a writing intern. Palak, in the past, has written opinion essays for Public Seminar, book reviews in collaboration with Catapult Books, fashion trend pieces for Photobook Magazine and Parsons’ weekly digests. As a 21 year old writer living at the Mecca of publishing, she continues to learn, observe, grow, experience life and then eventually write about it, rewrite, edit and proofread. Check out her work here at https://palakgodara2.journoportfolio.com/. Find her on Instagram @_palakgodara.
Indian English
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl: Interview with Cheryl Mukherji
by Palak Godara
The white walls of Cheryl Mukherji’s studio apartment demand you to completely ignore them and direct all your attention to her art. To her art that is painted on them, concealing them; leaning against them, hiding them; or lying next to them, complimenting them. A visual artist and writer currently working as a photo editor […]


