A page out of her own novel
Which it did. No flyaways, no wisps, no pedestrian disarray. In fact, he could have wound up messing it up by touching it at all.
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Oh, how low the bar is for cis-het men to appear to be romantically impressive.
The actor Riz Ahmed, walking the Academy Awards red carpet with his partner, the novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, asked press photographers to pause for a few seconds as he reached over to play with Mirza’s hair. I guess he was trying to look like he was adjusting it. Except it didn’t need adjusting. Mirza’s coiffure, a side-swept and very smooth fringe and even smoother straight hair left down her back, had probably already been worked on by professionals who had ensured it would stay in place.
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CHENNAI: How do you listen to a mermaid’s song? I, having been raised on the ways of a particular wizarding world, believed you had to submerge yourself in water be part of the sea that births the music. But, there’s plenty of magic to be found if you were to dip your oar into the water and hold its other side to your ear at the Mattakalappu lagoon, finds Nilavoli, Sharanya Manivannan’s protagonist.
While scientists peg the mysterious sounds to underwater currents touching a special type of shell, or the creatures that reside in them or ‘singing’ fish, Nilavoli’s Amma suggests, “Then there are dreamers like you and me who want to believe there can be mermaids in the lagoon. Fish-tailed, with a human heart.” It’s with this declaration that Sharanya’s latest creation Mermaids in the Moonlight takes off.