Essays – tales of Suchita

It takes a village to raise a girl

As a woman, people seem to have a lot of opinions on me. Whether it is my job, my health, my body or my marital status, everyone has a lot to say about how I should be living. How I am failing if I’m not doing x or y or z.

Barbie and being Kenough

Generally, when I watch a woman-centric movie, I am accompanied by this melancholy that stems from knowing a lot of people won’t watch it because it’s “talking about a cause I don’t relate with” or “I’m not the right audience” or “how many times will they say the same thing, we know things have toContinue reading “Barbie and being Kenough”

The utilitarianism of violence and other things that puzzle me #BlogchatterBlogHop

Here are 4 things about today’s world that puzzle me [yup I’m just directly going to start]: Who runs the world? Whenever I watched Game of Thrones, the one thing that always stood out to me was how little the people who were fighting to rule Westeros and sit on the iron throne cared aboutContinue reading “The utilitarianism of violence and other things that puzzle me #BlogchatterBlogHop”

How to beat the cultural zeitgeist

Since my friends and I have crossed our 30s, it’s like our eyes have opened and we are seeing the world a little more clearly. It’s like for the first 20 years, we were sponges and now, we’re going through all that we have accumulated only to find very little of it is useful.

Queer romances v Straight romances

Over the past two and a half years, I have read a disturbing amount of fanfiction and an okay amount of romance novels. I was going through my “read” books and saw an interesting pattern: I was reading more queer romances than straight romances.

The other side of creativity

Any time I tell someone I’m a writer, I have received one of two questions. It’s either are you published. Or where can I read you. The second question is answered easily enough. I have a blog now and it is the most comprehensive way to read how or what I write. The first questionContinue reading “The other side of creativity”

Mind your language

What makes us human? Is it memory? Is it that we have bigger guns? Is it our brain? Maybe it is the fact that we have technology. I have noticed how most of these questions are posed and answered by the SciFi genre.

Becoming the sun

Ever since I started to learn more about gender and gender expression, I have become fascinated with the concept of being gender neutral. The fact that there are people in this world who are going beyond the boxes we trap ourselves in and creating a space for themselves is both intimidating and empowering.

10 things you can do for your mental health

I did a thought experiment recently that had only two questions. One of those questions was what you do for your mental health every day. I thought this was an important question because it would remind you to slow down and go through your day to understand that every day, we’re doing small activities thatContinue reading “10 things you can do for your mental health”

Creating space for yourself

One of my favourite marketing lessons is the two ways in which you can create a competitive advantage for your brand. One is to encroach on someone else’s market share. So, if yours is 30% and your competitor is at 70% you take away 5% from them to reach 35%. The other way is toContinue reading “Creating space for yourself”