• For the strong ones

    For the strong ones

    This is for the strong onesWho are standing with a sword and shield held aloftDressed in armourWaiting for a fight that has long been over.

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  • 6 things that 6 months of journaling taught me

    I’m fineI don’t get stressedAll is well are phrases I am intimately familiar with. It took me the longest time to even acknowledge that I get stressed or I have worries. A lot of that has to do with the constant diet of “you’re strong” I feed myself with. Allowing myself the bandwidth to be…

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  • Reading tales: Time War and The Spear

    Recently, my mother saw me charging my Kindle for the second time in a week and she said, “I preferred it when you were going to the library for books. At least that way, you’d take breaks in between.” It made me laugh. Because now that instant gratification has become a thing with the Kindle,…

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  • I’ll follow you until you love me, paparaZzi

    I should stop, I tell myself. I scroll through AG’s stories. I pause at a story where they are posing with a girl in a bikini. Something ugly rises inside me. But I don’t stop. God I’m being pathetic. I should stop, I tell myself again.

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  • I can be your hero baby

    I love my brother. Don’t get me wrong. I do love him. And he’s my older brother so the regard and love I have for him aren’t something I can explain. But he’s a stubborn bull and if he locks his feet in, no matter how much I drag, he won’t budge. He. Will. Not.…

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  • Sólo con tu amor yo puedo eXistir

    “There she is, my entertainment provider,” said Swarup to his granddaughter. He didn’t remember anymore that she was his granddaughter but he remembered, vaguely, that when she came to his room, she brought gifts along.

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  • Two drifters, off to see the world

    I’m sitting in the drawing room. I can hear the whirring of the fan. The sound of someone racing their motorcycle on the road twenty floors below wafts in through the open balcony door. It’s neither hot nor cold, dry or humid. It’s a perfect Bombay afternoon. It’s a slow work day. It’s my perfect…

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