• Suchita’s tryst with fantasy

    I did not know I was a fantasy nerd until an interviewer pointed out to me that ‘you basically love fantasy’ because when she asked me to name my favourite books, I said Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

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  • Finding asafoetida aka hing

    Living with a Moradabadi father and a Delhiite mother [these are important adjectives for them mind you], I have been intimately familiar with asafoetida or as we like to call it hing since I was a child. Even before I knew how hing was used to cook my favourite daal or alu ki sabji or…

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  • Why is it

    Why is it

    Why is itThat I can work next to herWithout war breaking out between usBut when I try with youI can’t help but make myself small to accommodate you?

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  • When was the first time you consumed a queer piece of content?

    My sister and I were having a conversation on what the first piece of content that either of us consumed around the LGBT+ community was.

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  • Know thyself…and thy triggers

    Triggers are words, situations, scenes, topics, circumstances, basically anything outside that create a response inside you. The response can be smallish and thus manageable or largish and thus may require some form of tools or professional help to deal with. An example of a tool would be Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help with certain…

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  • Not a book review: Unearthed

    In eleventh standard we were introduced to a subject called Environmental Education – EED for short. It was to be a part of our compulsory subjects which meant while calculating our final percentage in twelfth using 5 out of 6 subjects, of those 5, English and EED had to be included.

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  • Rose

    Rose

    Water, sun, lightAll that a seed needsTo grow right.

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