What does it mean to do work you love? Like all love, it is equal parts difficulty, exhilaration and self-discovery.

I spent all of last week in Madurai, shooting for a documentary film. It has been 13 years since I last made one, having spent this time on other things—a digital platform, writing, television, though in my head all of those were just some version or other of the documentary arts.  It’s a strange profession. It defies categorisation—being at once art, politics, pamphlet, meditation, poetic, prosaic, challenging, open-ended in possible forms it can assume, as many forms as there are people and realities really.