Don’t Tell Me I’m Hot
This journey isn’t about being hot; it’s about finding true comfort in my skin, rejecting the myth of pretty privilege, and feeling at home again.
Home & Identity
Finding home & a sense of belonging within shifting identity politics of geography, region, language, politics, ideologies and culture.
Finding My Khandaan: My Life Through the Bollywood Khans
The Khandaan podcast inspires a journey through my Bollywood memories, uncovering how they shaped our cultural identities and gender politics in relationships.
When You Have A Choice In Your Story: Choices ‘Slow Burn’
Slow Burn on the Choices app highlights the importance of sensitive representation in interactive stories, showing how diversity shapes narrative choice.
Language No Bar, Rashtriya Bhasha Har Baar
A woman & I separated by glass makes me think about the dance of language & identity. I trace colonialism & nationalism with my tongue. How shall I reach her?
The Body Journey: Tailoring Life to Fit Me
My body journey is about overcoming shame, examining privilege, overcoming mental illness and embracing androgyny, all to live authentically in my forever home.
Review: HONOUR – Elif Shafak: Trauma Love Of Brown Women
‘Honour’ by Elif Shafak examines Turkish patriarchy mingling with Western traditions & values. It addresses gendered violence, racism & economic exploitation.
Mad Men: THE JET SET Was About Unwanted Children
Mad Men S2E11 episode THE JET SET offers a deeper look into the show’s underlying theme by exploring the choice between hedonism and domesticity.
Mad Men: THE SUITCASE Is Full Of Peggy’s Baggage
Peggy Olsen contends with her choices of relationships, desire & work in the fan favorite MAD MEN episode ‘The Suitcase’ through three men Mark, Duck & Don.
Christmas In My 40s: Navigating Yuletide In A Desi Identity
Christmas is complex for me. It’s a journey through painful nostalgia, colonised history, the morality of forgivness & questioning where I really belong.
BOOK REVIEW: Daughters Of Sparta, The Penelopiad, Circe
Feminist retellings of Greek mythos offers a different view of heroism. The Sparta-Troy war is rich with women navigating complex stories of their own.