An essay on my late grandmother’s intangibility.
Tag: death
Of Reality and Death
A poem on how the pandemic has exposed the gaps when it comes to privilege – even between a husband and a wife living in the same home.
A Troubled Heart
Trigger warning: This story contains mention of suicide ideation and self-harm tendencies.
How Spirit Photography Captured Love, Loss and Longing
Today viewers may be preoccupied by the methods used by spirit photographers, but spirit photographs had a notable impact on the bereaved who commissioned the portraits.
In Which I Hate My Bones
'Bones, why we loved you the most, and — the only memory of you that remains beyond the smell.'
Questions
'When someone dies and you don't know why's and how's, do you let the departed leave in peace, or just wish for another answer – however wrong.'
‘A Treasured Friend Gone Too Soon’: A Tribute To Slain J&K Officer Arshad Meer
On September 12, 25-year-old Arshad Ashraf Meer, a sub-inspector with the J&K police, was killed by militants in Srinagar. In this essay, his childhood friends pay tribute to their …
A Prolonged Ordinary
I’m surprised by the power of consumption; how our increased consumption of something – even death – makes it so astonishingly normal to us.
Can We Erase August 27?
The death of my father has been like an open wound in our family.