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.
Religion
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.
Thank God 🛕🕌 – 1993 Bombay Riots
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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.
Read the story ‘Thank God‘ here.
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.
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.
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.
Reflection – A Prayer
I hope you find lessons in your reflection and I hope these lessons come to you easy.
A Bleeding Goddess
Don’t objectify me. Don’t deify me. I am not a sex object. I am not a worship object. I am no goddess. I am a person. I am a voice.
Aren’t You Glad I’m Not Carrie?
I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.
#IdeaStory: Mermaid
You learnt to float, she yells,ducking under him smoothly.When she surfaces,he’s walking on the water.Away.