My great-grandmothers tell me that the struggle to find my own happiness is no less heroic than tales of women who fought wars or went to space.
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Here’s Why I Don’t Mind Being ‘Unproductive’
I don't want to live a productive life if it means giving up my joy.
‘My Beloved Husna’ : A Love Story Set in Sudan
Forgive me, for my heart can only hold your love and never your death.
My Experience With Travelling in Indian Railway’s ‘Divyang’ Coach
The experience hardly encapsulated what it means to be 'divyang' or 'the one with divine limbs'.
Criticising the Government is ‘Injurious to Health’
It is one thing to be bullied by anonymous or distant trolls, it is an altogether different ballgame to be trolled by those who matter to us.
Why These Young Adults Are Happy to Stay Single
In a nutshell, I realised how the need to be married by a certain age, or at all, wasn’t my own, but one that I had (quiet unhealthily) borrowed from …
How Propaganda Manufactured a Fear of Muslims as ‘Terrorists’ Within Me
After the Pulwama incident, a new fear had crept into my psyche: a fear of terrorists, which went against my own rationality.