A World That No Longer Knows My Name
0 0 It’s not a world I recognise anymore. That feeling didn’t arrive with thunder or grand revelation—it crept in, quietly. I was wedged into a narrow seat somewhere near the middle of the plane, surrounded by people but not among them. On either side of me sat two young adults—present in body, absent in […]
A Seat in the Prangan – not quite inside, not quite outside
0 0 Not in the way many like me usually mean it—with doctrines, rituals, obligations, or inherited beliefs. It was never really about religion, faith and belief for me. Religion was never taught to me in a formal sense. I was born in a “Busy” Hindu family – it was not expected from busy parents […]
The Weight of a Simple Ask
1 0 I was sitting at a small, weathered tea tapri just outside my office—a place as humble as it was comforting, with the scent of boiling tea leaves mingling with the dust of the afternoon air. It was one of those ordinary moments where time seems to stretch gently, broken only by the occasional […]
Hypocrite? Me? NO
74 0 I think I am the world’s biggest hypocrite. I am happy in life. I am getting everything that I wanted and yet I turn back to those snippets of grief to stir up melancholy in my heart. I crave time and attention from my people and yet when I have them around, all […]
Loving him was blue
58 0 We called it quits yesterday and I climbed in my bed and slept like a baby. They said goodbyes are hard but I could hardly feel anything. I woke up after 10 hrs of sleep and instantly rushed towards my canvas hoping that my art will allow me to sort through my feelings. […]
Mirror Mirror on the wall
65 0 Today I was teaching science to my younger sister and I randomly recalled how my physics teacher once told me that mirrors are coated with aluminum. But I don’t think I agree. I walk by, and I don’t see a layering of polish and silver, rather I see a reflecting surface coated by […]