Meera Ganapathi
@octopuswatch_1
Founder @TheSoup_India Words in @cwwriters @scroll_in @bethejuggernaut @firstpost Author: How to Forget @puffinIndia Picture books: http://storyweaver.org.in
The old house is alive in the rain, weeping and sprouting shrooms, worms have scents and accents, the walls are dressed in dusty moth, if you listen long enough there’s a song in the drips and ‘kritch’ means a tiny snail has died underfoot. A silent house speaks in 100 voices.
Detail of a traveller’s palm tree. Uniquely symmetrical and so many shades of colours (even pink) within its green.
TIL babies have slapping phases. Learnt this the hard way. 🫠
Meera Ganapathi joins the 9th Bengaluru Poetry Festival with stories that dance between whimsy and depth. 📅 2–3 Aug 2025 📍 Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha 🔗 bengalurupoetryfestival.org/index @octopuswatch_1
Reading Rom Whitaker’s book and filled with envy/sadness for places that were once clean enough to swim in, green and teeming with wild life. There should be a term for this sadness- a longing for places you’ve lived in but never known when they were pristine and beautiful.
Go over to @octopuswatch_1’s Insta page to read in full this thoughtful, kind essay on kindness
My sweet friend gifted me beautiful paper and graphite pencils and I’m looking around the house for things to draw. WIP.
#WeekendReads | This is a book of short steps and long walks along familiar routes that have often led the writer to unexpected places. Meera Ganapathi (@octopuswatch_1) writes. (@harpercollinsin) buff.ly/zV5cLlw
Hello Bangalore! See you at Champaca today at 6 pm. 🩵
upon further reading @octopuswatch_1’s How to Forget, i found the mention of my hometown and she captures my entire childhood, but especially the early teen years, perfectly with this one little vignette✨ (almost felt spookily biographical! 😅)
Meera Ganapathi's (@octopuswatch_1) words are like a hot shower after a long, tiring day, something you just can't get enough of. You want them to linger on your skin and last a little bit longer. 'How To Forget' knows you're rushing through life without noticing...
reading @octopuswatch_1 on this very slow very deliberate evening 🤍
#Bengaluru readers, we invite you to join us for the launch of #MeeraGanapathi’s (@octopuswatch_1) latest book, #HowToForget, on 29th June, 6:00 PM onwards, at @ChampacaBooks, Vasanth Nagar. The author will be in conversation with #JoshuaMuyiwa (@WhyGaze) on chronicling memory,…
Giving the drama a rest because I wasn’t that invested to begin with.
#BookReview: In "How to Forget", Meera Ganapathi does not simply write—she 'wanders'. Each piece in this collection meanders like a thoughtful stroll at twilight, where memory floats like dust motes in golden light. storizen.com/book-reviews/h… @HarperCollinsIN @PeriSwapna
Yoga day can’t be complete without bringing up this old but timeless Photograph of HD Deve Gowda doing Yoga on International Yoga Day
In spare and lucid lines of poetry and prose, #HowToForget by #MeeraGanapathi (@octopuswatch_1) takes the reader on a walk through childhood, love, loss and longing. Read an exclusive excerpt, featured on @storizenmag: storizen.com/book-excerpts/… #READWithHarperCollins
Delighted to see #MeeraGanapathi’s (@octopuswatch_1) latest book, #HowToForget, featured in @the_hindu’s #Browser column! With gentle, insightful observations, this quietly powerful book offers a soothing respite from the chaos of our cities and the clamour of our thoughts.…