Shreya’s column for newspapers in the romantic month of February is about the deepest friendships

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Pic: With her “all-time bestest friend”

“So what’s my criteria for bonafide buddies (ask yourself the same Q and you might find your life satisfactorily simplified)? I had an interesting exchange with writer Hanif Kureishi on social media more than a decade ago, when I was new to Facebook and he wasn’t (or was just inherently wiser). He insisted it was impossible to make genuine friends on social media and I scoffed at this, naively believing back then to have found whole hordes of them. After over a decade of middling and unfortunate experiences on platforms I can no longer be bothered to frequent, I recognise that the Buddha of Suburbia was spot on…”

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Shreya’s year-end wrap-up column for newspapers in 2024 is a satirical look at alternative awards for the powerful

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“Awards more fitting, I promise you, than the outrageous annual payments they gift themselves (do I smell a Muskrat or is that $56bn in ill-gotten gains?), or the made-much-of awards that are handed out like party favours amongst the One Per Cent. These poor little rich prats might have cornered the world’s resources, but have they got what they truly deserve? NO, but I’m not that bitch Karma, sadly, so I can’t deliver just desserts.

Yet, ask yourself, what do you give someone who has EVERYTHING? Here are six prizes so perfect for avaricious fat cats and ruthless despots that they’ve never even considered them…”

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https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/shreya-sen-handley-alternative-awards-for-the-year-end-warp-up-1848692?fbclid=IwY2xjawHWevRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHa0c0AW4mTo7fZwkL65CVZre0LAFJKm9F24VOdyEIVAqgeUUhj-zBJet8A_aem_BugfeokIo_wL9URfHqo-iQ

Shreya’s column for newspapers in November is about saving the planet in her own distinctive voice

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Image of Kanchenjunga, world’s third highest peak, by Stephen Handley in 2024

Shreya writes a monthly column for several widely circulated international newspapers, in this penultimate one for 2024, written just after Trump’s re-election and her own trip to the Himalayas, she puts forward a plan to protect our mental health, save the planet and survive Trump. To read it in full, please click here

Shreya’s column for newspapers in September is about the politics of apologies and the logistics of REVENGE!

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One reader from the US had this to say about it: “”I really enjoyed her piece. She captured a dynamic that is very much related to the United States non-apology, non-reparations for slavery and for Native decimation. And her conclusion was beautifully bloodless. Wrestling with the past and not getting dragged down yourself in a victim-spiral is not easy. She seems to have her head on straight and now she can continue to get her peaceful revenge!”

Another one from India stated, “Extraordinary article! Monte Cristo has been my inspiration for as long as I can remember: I actually consider it the bible for the wronged, the finest revenge manual ever written. I am entirely with you, there’s nothing quite like revenge, the getting even in a soul-satisfying way. All this ‘sorry’ nonsense, and forgiveness bla is for wimps.”

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Image: E.T. or the author??

Shreya’s column for newspapers in August is about stumbling into The King’s loo and wondering what all our bathrooms reveal about us

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“The bus trip from Nottingham to London had taken many long hours more than I’d expected and I desperately needed the bathroom as soon as we got to the British royal residence. Vaguely waved towards a corridor, I dived in through the first door I suspected led to a toilet, to find myself in a time warp…”

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Image: From The British Media, the author can be seen in the front row, with The Queen at the centre

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/shreya-sen-handley-the-kings-plumbing-and-other-toilet-tales-1818786