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My parents don’t sleep in the same bed
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • 1 min

My parents don’t sleep in the same bed

My 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...
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Re-dying in 4 steps (when the depression relapses)
  • Jul 26, 2021
  • 2 min

Re-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...
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Baba always said he wanted a son because⁠—”Sons lit the pyres”⁣⁣
  • Jul 26, 2021
  • 2 min

Baba 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...
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We are a generation of displaced anger and 140 characters.
  • Jul 26, 2021
  • 2 min

We 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...
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My mother is one-fourth the woman she could be three-fourths the woman she had to be
  • Jul 25, 2021
  • 2 min

My mother is one-fourth the woman she could be three-fourths the woman she had to be

my mother is decreasing she tiptoes barefoot about the house to not make a murmur of her existence my mother is contracting she nibbles...
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We believe and believe and then believe some more till our faith becomes a series of arithmetic prog
  • Jul 24, 2021
  • 2 min

We believe and believe and then believe some more till our faith becomes a series of arithmetic prog

When 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...
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The universe needs me to be a bad daughter on a few days
  • Jul 24, 2021
  • 2 min

The universe needs me to be a bad daughter on a few days

My 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...
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Never fall in love with a writer
  • Jul 23, 2021
  • 2 min

Never fall in love with a writer

Never fall in love with a writer because their love comes with a messy disclaimer, their love is only theirs, never yours, (even after...
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A love letter written by my right hand for my left
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 3 min

A love letter written by my right hand for my left

somewhere, a little girl appearing for her math exam smashes our faces, and believes she will score the highest; a man temporarily glues...
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I hope your next lover looks more like disaster-management lessons and mine, less like a catastrophe
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 1 min

I hope your next lover looks more like disaster-management lessons and mine, less like a catastrophe

you implant subtle disasters in the vacant pores of my skin every time your brown-sugar hands touch my desert-sand body. the first time...
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My therapist tells me to practice spelling out S-T-O-P  I-T everyday, the words that I should have y
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 2 min

My 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...
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Self belief is a rollercoaster ride and i was born with motion sickness
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 2 min

Self belief is a rollercoaster ride and i was born with motion sickness

all 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 –...
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At 15, you realize you live in a country where kissing another boy is illegal and you realise you we
  • Jul 18, 2021
  • 2 min

At 15, you realize you live in a country where kissing another boy is illegal and you realise you we

My 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...
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The aftermath of an Indian suicide
  • Jul 16, 2021
  • 4 min

The aftermath of an Indian suicide

suicides travel accompanied by history, anthropology economics, politics, literature of all sorts and obviously, the cinema! and what...
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Art is the only thing death can’t touch
  • Jul 10, 2021
  • 2 min

Art is the only thing death can’t touch

Art 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...
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The Great Indian Kitchen
  • Jul 2, 2021
  • 2 min

The 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...
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How many gods have fled the sky since humans learned how to pray?
  • Jun 30, 2021
  • 2 min

How 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...
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God and I, go to couples therapy together
  • Jun 28, 2021
  • 1 min

God and I, go to couples therapy together

God 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...
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List of things I tell the silences between us by Noorpriya Chawla
  • Jun 23, 2021
  • 2 min

List of things I tell the silences between us by Noorpriya Chawla

i) 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...
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Best of NaPoWriMo 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021
  • 7 min

Best of NaPoWriMo 2021

NaPoWriMo 2021 Sonography of emptiness by Srishti Saharia the second paediatrician you remember them taking you to was because you...
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