Buzzfeed’s Imaan Sheikh & Rape Culture
Imaan Sheikh was the name on Twitter’s buzz because of a screenshot of her tweets from three years earlier.
Pop Culture
Books, Film, Fashion, Food, Music, Performance & all things popular culture
The Music Of An Ex
Your voice still terrifies me. If anger were energy, you’re a nuclear reactor. But I only saw the gravity, I only heard the pain, I only felt your fear. And inside your head, for you, I became everything I could see. No wonder you hate me. Now, every now and…
Baby Invisible: On Sex, Emotional boundaries & Identity
A poem about emotional boundaries and sex
How To Make A Paper Plane
This was my first ever performance of something I’d written.
I Was A Manic Pixie Dream Girl
*This post was featured on WordPress Freshly Pressed picks on March 27, 2015. Remember when I wrote that I felt like a character in someone else’s coming-of-age story? I was only scratching the surface with that. I’ve been long intrigued by a stock character in popular fiction – the Manic…
Corn Chips
A rumination over corn chips while on a plane.
Completely Pointless Ramblings on Love
Today I’m going to talk about love. It’s an overused term, I know. But I haven’t written about it in a long time. Not really. I have been suspicious of love, waged war with it, tried to control it, compartmentalise it and even ignore it. Today, I sit down with…
Sunshine Moment
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is about a dysfunctional American family. But I think it’s really about kicking ass. Let me tell you my own Little Miss Sunshine story.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Connections
Like every other aspect of Mumbai life, dating here is stressful. My result driven city has made a corporate exercise out of the experience of finding connections!
Because Dating Doesn’t Have To Be Drama & Disasters
The last time I spoke about dating, I was cribbing about Indian men, digital platforms and the world in general. But like the times I rarely speak about, I’m regaining my peace-equilibrium with the world I live in, that fails to please me, on occasion. And as with pizza, beer…