On the struggle to find some personal space in a middle-class household.
Emily Dickinson and the Unforgivable Crime of Women Liking Their Own Company Too Much
On society’s fixation with the anomaly called “the lone woman”.
Lunar Cycles
A poem on the fear of harassment that women and girls routinely encounter in cities and society's tendency to blame victims.
On Personal Politics and Growing Out of Intellectual Snobbery
We must go beyond our textbooks and back into our living spaces.
An Epidemic of Unconscious Art
They don't really understand art but they definitely understand marketing.
Movies, Lockdown and a Parallel Universe
On tricks of memory, stark realities and empty gestures.
The Lure of the Subculture of ‘Dark Academia’
It romanticises university life and builds an aesthetic around longing and suffering. But it's much more than what it has been perceived to be.
Mangoes: The Lost Glory of the King of Fruits
Of summertime mango memories and forgotten local varieties.
Haven or Hell
A poem on the realities of being trapped indoors.
The Different Fathers I Know
Father's Day when you have a bad dad.