A Catalogue of Things I Tried to Hold
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by anushka bharadwaj
anushka bharadwajAnushka is a writer and postgraduate researcher from a small town in Bihar. Her work explores the intersections of memory, culture, and women’s lives. She is currently working on a collection of children’s stories. As she grows older, her impulse to document her parents and her town—with all their tenderness and contradictions—has begun to feel like an obsession. While her personal and political views often clash with those of her parents, her writing remains deeply shaped by her mother’s life and language, an endless source of wisdom and humour. This piece emerges from her desire to remember her parents in their entirety, and to learn a gentler way of holding their contradictions alongside her own.