Surviving the Seventeenth
Soon, it will be 9yrs since I made one of the few impulsive decisions of my life. It is a decision I’ve been punished for over & over.
Finding home & a sense of belonging within shifting identity politics of geography, region, language, politics, ideologies and culture.
Soon, it will be 9yrs since I made one of the few impulsive decisions of my life. It is a decision I’ve been punished for over & over.
In 2009, the BMC, Mumbai’s civic body invited citizens to come paint the walls of an arterial road abutting the railway track. Home.
I am not a Tamilian. I am not a Brahmin. You erase my identity and you insult my legacy when you call me a TamBram.
Who are you when there isn’t anyone around to recognise you? Do you know this person?
I was an angry girl of the Indian rock persuasion in a saree.
I’m reclaiming the ability to ask for help.
Knowledge is food for hungry minds.
You are not other people’s expectations.
If you were a place, where would you be?
‘A minute of silence’ by Marina Abramovic moved me to tears. I knew it had lessons for me that I wasn’t yet ready for.