Tag: personal essay
To Collect Women
This personal essay titled, ‘To Collect Women‘ was rejected by numerous magazines and websites because it …
मैं क्यों नहीं चाहता कि मेरी बेटी का कोई सबसे अच्छा दोस्त हो?
#Translation #Hindi You can read the original piece in English by Sangeetha Bhaskaran titled “Why I …
Love Without Labels: A Queer Rant
Amatonormativity: the assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a …
Bharti. Stay. Stay. Stay.
TW: Suicide and Self Harm I wonder if people think about themselves in the third person. …
Notes on Grief, Loss and Remembering My Grandmother
On 27th May 2022, around half past seven in the morning, I got a call from …
An Open Letter to People Who Tell Me to “Try Harder and Not Make Excuses”
Recently, I joined a gym to try and work on my fitness. My boyfriend, a seasoned …
A Mosaic of Identities
I’m writing it as is. but I wonder if anything can be as is. The cursor …
Abouts and Doubts: A 4-Part Series on the Complexities of Adulting
Prologue: It’s getting late I was slipping on my sandals for work, like I do every …
Why I Don’t Want My Daughter to Have a Best Friend
You can also read this piece in Hindi now, brought to you by our wonderful Hindi …
Of Legless Boys, Arsonists and Oud
Every day on my way to work I see one of the several amputees who languish …
