Autorickshaws & Poetry: Dignity In A Post COVID World
My post-COVID reflections in autorickshaws confront privilege, embrace Mumbai’s diversity, discover shared poetry transcend languages.
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
My post-COVID reflections in autorickshaws confront privilege, embrace Mumbai’s diversity, discover shared poetry transcend languages.
Post COVID, life is uncertain but it’s an open road. Everything is a lesson, every meeting is a gift.
Finding peace in the domestic, finding poetry in the mundane
I’ve been in so many conversations. I’ve come back overflowing with so much. Then someone says hello and they pass.
I went back to my alma mater, this time as faculty. It brought me even more lessons. Back to school is always learning.
Closures have never been easy for me. 2022 feels like a long checklist. I have to go somewhere next but where and why?
I found lessons of love in trees, support through loss in a common lizard.
From COVID grip to recovery, my journey unveils lessons in patience and gratitude. Navigating health challenges and finding kindness in unexpected places.
We do not have a consensus on what love, commitment, sex or identity mean. Maybe we don’t need to agree. What do we owe each other then?
Kim’s Convenience asks, “Do they treat you well?”. I wish someone had thought to ask me that. The question has affection and no saviour complex.