Today as I entered my home, mom and dad gave me a tight hug and said, in their happiest voices, “Congratulations son! Now it's legal.”
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In Kerala, Family Tales Surface as the Waters Recede
As we rebuild Kerala in the coming years, hilarious anecdotes of family members' erratic antics will be the things that keep us going.
Why We Need to Stop Calling Millennials ‘Entitled’
We were promised fairytale lives, we’re more than making do with this instability instead – one that we had no hand in creating.
A Life-Changing Rickshaw Ride With a Woman in a Blue Headscarf
When a random man started to lecture me about how to dress, a stranger's kindness offered me the support and community I never even realised I needed – women.
English: The Language I Yearn(ed) to Learn
There is no harm to speak with all the hurt, the brokeness, the lisps, the slips, because that is how I learn this language, that is how I make it …
Please Stop Talking To Me When I Am Trying To Read
What is with random men approaching women reading, or just breathing, in public places? It is not flattering. In fact, it is anything but flattering.