14th March 2022 The beauty of them. All the holding that they do. Ideally, and by definition, they hold/ support books, books for the...

One truth, my truth, is that it comes and it goes And I don’t know when it will happen It doesn’t follow a timetable It dances to the...

May 2021 Nurse-in-training, Rinku, said she wasn’t ever scared. When the pandemic first broke and the protocol had to be learned, she did...

May 2021 Parvatbhai. What a joyful soul! He does it all! Walks in as light-footed as a cat, eyes alive, crinkly and shining; reading the...

I was so angry. When I’m angry I cry, which infuriates me even more! “TEAR DUCTS! THIS IS NOT THE TIME!!” Angry that I wasn’t permitted...

May 2021 This old lady. Charulataben. Baa (grandma) 82. Kind and generous and genuinely concerned and full of advice. (Side note: Yo it...

May 2021. Her name is Mona Lisa and she was told Mona Lisa was a Queen of England who never stopped smiling and that’s why she was world...

(The illustration is of a photograph-turned-meme on the interwebs. I do not own it, cute little bum no?) I’m screaming out into the void...

27th April 2021 11:03pm Okay. So I tested positive. For Covid 19; not for a sunny disposition and cheery attitude, but for the goddamned...

I watched The Social Dilemma. It left me feeling tense and uneasy and hopeless that day. Even if we are given a good thing born of...

Death is not foreign. It is not an alien concept. My own; perhaps an abstract and wholly incomprehensible idea. I won't even know it when...

Once you've seen it for what it is; you can't unsee it. You cannot undo the knowing of things. You cannot help but recognise it in its...

That strange heaviness that seems as though it's seeping into every fibre of your being. Sluggish and lax. Everything slows down. You're...

I think they call it self-sabotage. You look for the worst-case scenario, make sure you learn the ins and outs of it all. Then you plan...

I think some of us misunderstand what it means to be biased. We may have one friend from a marginalised community; you know, that one...

So, this love thing. Have you heard? What about love? The opposite of hate, is it? No. Apparently hate suggests that you do, in fact,...

I reject intolerance; the same intolerance that they act on and exhibit at the drop of a hat yet deny the existence of, all in the same...

Muses come and go. Whenever they feel like it. You have no say, no control; whatsoever. This can prove to be extremely frustrating....

4th January 2020 Mavelikarra, Kerala I think we all need a place, don't we? A safe haven. A secret spot to sit in quietly. When our heart...