Welcome To The Friendzone
The friendzone assumes that women owe men sex for nice behaviour. This mindset is part of rape culture, whose other manifestations are incels and acid attacks.
Poetry
Architect
This was one of the few classic poem style pieces that I actually wrote for stage. I wanted to explore the juxtaposition between the tangible and the emotional. And where better to do that than on stage, with my own body trying to emote things my mind created?
Excruciating Intimacies: Navigating Through Poetry
It isn’t intimacy unless it feels a little tender.
Finding Myself In My Body: Reclaiming Pain
A house that is a warzone. A courtroom for custody battles. Dumping ground for other people’s pain. My body.
Two Cities I’ve Loved – Bangalore & Mumbai
Feeling the tug between two places – one that feels like home and one that is dutifully home.
Sympathetic Losses & The Empathy Monster
I have poems by old lovers,
not about me
not the loves,
not the poetry.
When Gods Become People
An ode to disappointing idols, to deified affections, to desecrated loyalties,
Urban Domestica – Peace in Pieces
Finding peace in the domestic, finding poetry in the mundane
I Will Listen
I’ve been in so many conversations. I’ve come back overflowing with so much. Then someone says hello and they pass.
Silent Gods – A Political Poem
A political poem about India’s many gods