Magical & Miraculous
What makes a moment miraculous? Is it mystery?
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The Compassion Chemical
I have been thinking about compassion. I find there’s no room for it in the stories we embrace to guide our lives. It is this that makes me feel I’m overflowing out of my body, spaces & life. What I have in me is labelled & pre-valued for tangible effects….
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Road To The Rainbow
Written for an Alphabet Sambar prompt: RAINBOW
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Smiling At Sad
Can we approach being sad with a smile? How different would it look then?
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A Door Called Discomfort
Some days are recuperation. Some days are comfort. And some days are sitting with discomfort because that’s the name on the door behind which we stuff pain. Maybe it’s because I am facing head-on, things that trigger me and trying to learn new responses in doing so. Maybe it’s another…
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The Bureacracy Of Time Travel
Unexpected echoes from a pandemic, old connections, and buried trauma collide—showing how time can trap us in moments we thought were gone.
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Learning From Echoes
You have to live through the echoes of the things you couldn’t hear. Trauma manifests in layered ways.
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BOOK REVIEW: Shrayana Bhattacharya – Reluctantly Seeking SRK Fans
I did not expect to find feminism in a book about Shah Rukh Khan. But reading Shrayana Bhattacharya’s book on the gender wage gap made me rethink.
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The Unloving Wanting
There are treasures in hidden corners as much as there are monsters called trauma. This un-loving wanting is our map.
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Pandemic Old
“How are you? How have you been? Who are you?” I don’t know how to answer these questions anymore, where once I had perfectly formulated, sure-as-steel answers. I’m still catching my breath and making sense of sounds. I’m experiencing the first summer in two years. In many ways, it is…
