About

I’m Priya.

I write about things that interest me, amuse me, remind me of something, make me curious, or simply refuse to leave my head alone.

Some of those things are important. Most aren’t. I like both kinds.

Books. Food. Travel. Childhood memories. Animals. People. Places. The occasional completely unnecessary observation.

I write about them because sometimes a small thing is worth stopping for.

Notice first. Interpret second. Preach never.

Along the way

Early days: Summers in our ancestral house in Manjalur, by the Mananchira pond. Boarding schools, Enid Blyton and Amar Chitra Kathas.
2007: Started my first blog, God’s Own Country!!!
2009: Three of us sat down on a rainy October afternoon and dreamt up Sankalp — exhibitions where women could show and sell what they make.
2015: A new blog, i am priya menon. Sankalp travels to Kochi, and later Kozhikode and Kottayam.
2016: A night in a forest cottage at Thenmala, with no phone and no electricity.
2019: Wrote by the river Periyar at a writing workshop, and came home with friends for life.
2021: Moscow, St. Petersburg and Murmansk — very far from Coonoor, which is where I thought I was going.
Now: The Bay Window is open again. Come sit here.