Before you continue reading this essay, try something mildly inconvenient: if you’re reading this on your phone, switch to your laptop. There’s a decent chance you won’t. You’ll probably glance at the length of this piece, instinctively return to Instagram, and continue watching someone reorganize their fridge in under thirty seconds while a sped-up voice […]
Palak Godara
PALAK GODARA is a fashion journalist and writer with a deep affection for magazines—especially glossy ones. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City, she spent her student years writing opinion essays for Public Seminar, reviewing books in collaboration with Catapult Books, covering fashion trends for Photobook Magazine, and contributing to Parsons’ weekly digests. When she wasn’t relishing a Pret Pesto Caprese Baguette or walking 20,000 steps around the city, she was usually writing, rewriting, editing, or proofreading.
Today, Palak writes for British Vogue, Vogue India, and Vogue Australia, where she covers weddings and the worlds that orbit them—from beauty and fashion to culture, travel, and design.
Her Instagram is _palakgodara.
I Switched to a Flip Phone for a Month—and Didn’t Hate It
Indian English
by Palak Godara
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 […]
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 […]
