Jul 28, 20211 minMy parents don’t sleep in the same bedMy parents don’t sleep in the same bed. To a six year old girl, That never mattered. But to a seven year old girl, it does. She knows...
Jul 26, 20212 minRe-dying in 4 steps (when the depression relapses)/Assume all trigger Warnings before you start reading this piece of writing/ i) suddenly the sad in my sadness seems so thirsty as if it...
Jul 26, 20212 minBaba always said he wanted a son because—”Sons lit the pyres”Baba had stopped talking to me when I was in class six. I wanted to learn Kathak. He wanted me to study law. There are only a few...
Jul 26, 20212 minWe are a generation of displaced anger and 140 characters.my grandmother tells me in their times when ‘Mahabharata’ was telecasted every Sunday morning neighbours crowded in our house from...
Jul 25, 20212 minMy mother is one-fourth the woman she could be three-fourths the woman she had to bemy mother is decreasing she tiptoes barefoot about the house to not make a murmur of her existence my mother is contracting she nibbles...
Jul 24, 20212 minWe believe and believe and then believe some more till our faith becomes a series of arithmetic progWhen I say I want Oxford dictionary to replace the word childhood with falsehood I’m 90% joking but also 10% dead-serious. It’s 2009, Ma...
Jul 24, 20212 minThe universe needs me to be a bad daughter on a few daysMy relationship with my father is not what you’d call strained. It’s probably a Kesari chai mishap that soiled a small portion of our...
Jul 23, 20212 minNever fall in love with a writerNever fall in love with a writer because their love comes with a messy disclaimer, their love is only theirs, never yours, (even after...
Jul 20, 20213 minA love letter written by my right hand for my leftsomewhere, a little girl appearing for her math exam smashes our faces, and believes she will score the highest; a man temporarily glues...
Jul 20, 20211 minI hope your next lover looks more like disaster-management lessons and mine, less like a catastropheyou implant subtle disasters in the vacant pores of my skin every time your brown-sugar hands touch my desert-sand body. the first time...
Jul 20, 20212 minMy therapist tells me to practice spelling out S-T-O-P I-T everyday, the words that I should have y(Assume All Trigger Warnings) Summer afternoons have always been too salty, A kind that squeezes up your throat in a way, that it even...
Jul 20, 20212 minSelf belief is a rollercoaster ride and i was born with motion sicknessall the keepnotes that couldn’t turn into poems // i. i miss sleeping next to the sienna-eyed boy i love. look at me – a poetic monster –...
Jul 18, 20212 minAt 15, you realize you live in a country where kissing another boy is illegal and you realise you weMy amma did not raise me to be a poet, nor a feminist She asks, why are you a feminist? Amma, when you’re raised in a household run by...
Jul 16, 20214 minThe aftermath of an Indian suicidesuicides travel accompanied by history, anthropology economics, politics, literature of all sorts and obviously, the cinema! and what...
Jul 10, 20212 minArt is the only thing death can’t touchArt is a manifestation of grief, It is a rising sun, A clear sky after days of downpour It is a brooding mother, Photographs of times...
Jul 2, 20212 minThe Great Indian Kitchen“this was the legacy of the great Indian kitchen, here, only stomachs were filled in the attempt to fill hearts“ I could smell the spices...
Jun 30, 20212 minHow many gods have fled the sky since humans learned how to pray?How much hope is enough to walk out of grief unscathed? How long can you sit by yourself before the air of familiarity wears off? If...
Jun 28, 20211 minGod and I, go to couples therapy togetherGod and I, we haven’t spoken in a while, I have shut my doors on the inside. God and I, we have unresolved issues. God and I, go to...
Jun 23, 20212 minList of things I tell the silences between us by Noorpriya Chawlai) our love is not for this generation or any generation for that matter it simply doesn’t agree with the laws of the land so, every time...
Jun 22, 20217 minBest of NaPoWriMo 2021NaPoWriMo 2021 Sonography of emptiness by Srishti Saharia the second paediatrician you remember them taking you to was because you...