I Wear: A Bengal Summer
It’s cotton season! I love summer because it’s the perfect time for my cotton sarees.
Pop Culture
Books, Film, Fashion, Food, Music, Performance & all things popular culture
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Date Redux
I went on just one date in February. It felt familiar but not identical. I had had a date a lot like this one, over 12 years ago.
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I Wear: My Tribe Identity
The saree expresses the feminine and the individualistic with strength and without aggression. It’s my tribe.
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Books | Poetry | Pop Culture
Whirling Dervish
I hope the whirling never ends. Then I remember, nothing is endless.
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Strong Woman
It is the face of a woman that the world likes to call a Strong Woman. It is a tired look. A jaded look. A bored look. A dismissive look.
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Living With The Struggle
So he got bored and decided to create two of himself? And that turned out to be another struggle?
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Interesting Things
“She tried to be the kind of person that interesting things happened to.”
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Just Playing Games
Games are just stories we feel we can script. Simulations of a life we can win. Algorithms we run, hoping for a different outcome.
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Masters Of Sex: How Do We Do This Without The Men?
In the story of Masters and Johnson (Masters Of Sex), Bill Masters does not come off looking good in any way.
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A Song Of Silence
What does loneliness sound like? A scream that no one seems to hear. Gasps that don’t make it past the throat. Sentences written in invisible ink. The redacted words on a page. It’s feeling unwanted, unnecessary, irrelevant even. Then you remember. You still exist. The print under the graffiti, the face…
