The author writes about how navigating the world as a young person comes with a sense of confusion and frustration.
Tag: growing up
Childhood: Gloriously Found and Tragically Lost
When you are a kid, you feel life as you know it is the only kind of life out there. You feel safe and content. What we lose when …
Reflections of Every Age
An essay on the different learnings that we imbue at different stages.
Euphoric Moments
A poem on the exploration of growing and becoming, in all its glory.
Credo at 25
A poem depicting the reappraisal of the author's personal doctrine on turning 25.
Playtime
This poem is a stroll down the poet's memory lane, reminiscing about her son’s enchantment with the natural world as a child.
Two and a Half Storeys
'But we saw the world here, unfolding in all its mystery.'
The Terrible Secrets of Growing Up
'Maybe all of life is yearning, to feel the same way you felt at 13, never knowing that sometimes dreams wilt away in the heat.'
Unwombing the Mind: A Review of Kala Ramesh’s ‘the forest i know’
Poet Kala Ramesh's book of tanka verses offers a unique vision into the compound experience of womanhood.
The Standard Playbook: A Raging Father and His Unimpeachable Son
The author's mother's recollection of a lived experience after reading the piece 'Remembering A ‘Holy’ Father and His Unholy Son'.