BOOK: Tsering Namgyal Khortsa’s Tibet & Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis
Reading a sprawling colonial saga (Sea of Poppies) and an intimate Tibetan memoir brings me specific lenses to see the world by. A book is my map.
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City | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Roving I
Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City
Mumbai’s bridges, birds, and bygone doors— seeking meaning in plants, photographs, and god in everyday moments.
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Navigating A Flawed Mental Health Dialogue in India
Indian mental health is tangled with politics, faith & toxic advocacy. From yoga myths to therapy cliques, mental healthcare needs cultural context.
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Book Review: HONOUR – Elif Shafak: Trauma Love Of Brown Women
‘Honour’ by Elif Shafak examines Turkish patriarchy mingling with Western traditions & values. It addresses gendered violence, racism & economic exploitation.
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Thank God: Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid & Bombay Riots
Religion met politics in a thunderclap of violence & my city burnt. It was never the same again. I was never the same again. Thank God.
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Thank God 🛕🕌 – 1993 Bombay Riots
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Babri masjid demolition – 1992 Over three decades ago, an agnostic city called BOMBAY experienced the might of GOD. I was a child when religion met politics in a thunderclap of violence.
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ANNAPOORANI: What The Film & Right-Wing Got Wrong On Caste
ANNAPOORANI promised a caste discourse but served up a Brahimin fantasy. Right-wing backlash to the film only furthers saffron politics via Brahmin propaganda.
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Christmas In My 40s: Navigating Yuletide In A Desi Identity
Christmas is complex for me. It’s a journey through painful nostalgia, colonised history, the morality of forgivness & questioning where I really belong.
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BOOK REVIEW: Daughters Of Sparta, The Penelopiad, Circe
Feminist retellings of Greek mythos offers a different view of heroism. The Sparta-Troy war is rich with women navigating complex stories of their own.
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When Gods Become People
An ode to disappointing idols, to deified affections, to desecrated loyalties and lost gods.
