Essays
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About a year ago, I was on a lunch cruise on the backwaters of Alleppey where I saw something that I remember to this day. It was the afternoon. We were in a post lunch haze and the kids were playing hide and seek. This boy decided that the space under the cloth covered table…
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If I had to write an opening to describe 2024, or really the past 5 years, I would probably write: the world is broken. It feels like we’re going through our own version of an apocalypse, a B-grade movie where all tropes have been added. And on most days, I go through such tremendous rage…
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For as long as I can remember, food has been my lifeline. It’s been a source of comfort and joy. Nothing lights me up from the inside like when I am thinking, talking or eating food. Not surprisingly, I am surrounded by people who share my love for food.
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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.
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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 to…
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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 about…
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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.
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