Island
I am struggling to reconcile my identity as an island girl with my citizenship in a fast-paced, cut-throat metropolis.
Cityscapes, city sights, urban communities, metropolis life, city dweller identity, focussed on Mumbai with an occasional mention of Delhi, Bangalore and other cities I’ve been in.
I am struggling to reconcile my identity as an island girl with my citizenship in a fast-paced, cut-throat metropolis.
FOMO (or Fear of Missing Out) is not a good identifier of taste, let alone an actual description of personality.
“She tried to be the kind of person that interesting things happened to.”
Friendship is a DIY kind of relationship that you can tailor to your needs, your personality and the other’s.
Light. It’s an idea I’ve yet to wrap my head around, a word I’m still to learn to spell right, a reality that I still don’t entirely fathom.
We’ve spoken. You’ve looked at me and I, at you. You probably thought of me later.
In 2009, the BMC, Mumbai’s civic body invited citizens to come paint the walls of an arterial road abutting the railway track. Home.
Mumbai defines me and in my being, I add to the millions that define this city.
If you were a place, where would you be?
We buy into the myth of the cold cruelty of cities. Yet, we only find our loves & friendships in strangers.