If You Won’t Let Us Laugh, Someday We’ll Make You Cry
‘Veere Di Wedding’ caused an uproar. Why? Because Indian audiences find it intolerable for women to laugh, much less laugh together.
Friendship
BOOK REVIEW: Rust & Stardust-T Greenwood: Stars Under The Rust
Reading ‘Rust & Stardust’ (a true crime account that inspired the fiction book ‘Lolita’) helped me process old trauma.
A Date With Polyamory
I went to a party with people who practice polyamory.
Being The Story
I ran into someone who last saw me before I went through the biggest war of my life. I had to think about how to tell my story.
We Need Witnesses. We Are Witness.
I received a call from an old college friend. It went the way you’d expect such calls to go. A lot shrieking, plenty of laughs, some quiet introspection and a lot more “I am so happy to be talking to you.” I really am. This is more than nostalgia. We…
Spring-Cleaning For The Soul
I’m surrounded by question marks, in the shape of expensive gifts from you. I’ve discarded the funny, the cheesy, the lighthearted lines like you’ve done our laughs. But what about the Parisian box of songs? La vie en rose may as well be a life of thorns. I don’t like…
Thank You For The Ghosts
I met people I had ghosted. I was contacted by those who ghosted me. Maybe all ghosts bear gifts.
The Nature Of The Current
The nicest thing to happen was that I felt like myself in my own skin. The nature of the current is home.
Okay 2017, I Concede. Let’s Wait It Out.
I want to write something simply because the topmost post on this blog for too long now, has been a painful memory that victimised me. I am not actually dwelling in the past. The present has had me too caught up to even think about the future, let alone the…
No Games, Only Equals
It’s housekeeping time in the relationships corner of my life. That means letting go of people who don’t behave like my equals.