A personal essay on the experience of navigating life as a person with borderline personality disorder.
Tag: sense of belonging
A Foreigner in My Grandmothers’ Country
Delving into my limited capacity to understand the social and political processes of the lives of my two grandmothers.
Coming Back to Yourself
'No matter how far you go there is only one place you can come back to yourself – and that's home.'
Small Town Girls, an Intimate Portrait: ‘A Sense of Lacking’
What happens after you fragment yourself between the small town and the big city? What happens when you live neither here nor there?
The Worst Camp of My Life
When you’re from a small town, you’re always catching up; confidence constantly running on low while the city people seem to have more than a 100%.
Parts of a Whole: All the Places I Have Ever Lived
The importance of learning from one's experiences.
Discovering Home
On going back to Kolkata for a one-month internship and understanding that we belong in the moments of love.
Within and Without: A Northeasterner on the Sense of Belonging
As someone from Tipra community in the Northeast who grew up in Jaipur, I not only faced discrimination from those outside my community but also from my own.
Children of Nowhere Land
You can be born in an Indian metropolitan city, live all your life here and yet be a stranger who never fits in.
‘To Long or Belong’: My Love-Hate Relationship With Delhi
I long for the warmth of my home in Kerala while belonging to a city I am living in right now – Delhi.