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14 questions for when you’re falling in love with them

how loud is their laugh? does their laugh make you laugh? one of their pet peeves that you find oddly hilarious? on a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate their gift-gifting abilities? can their eyes apologise? do they like dogs? or cats? both? none??? if you ask…

Love

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14 questions for when you’re falling in love with them
14 questions for when you’re falling in love with them
Love

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A River is More Than Just Water

Does a river know when she carries a letter and when a body?

Death

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A River is More Than Just Water
A River is More Than Just Water
Death

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My Mother’s Kitchen Bustles with Secrets, Tadkas & Solidarity

Perhaps a kitchen remains the only place in a house bearing limitless possibilities. It is where love demands precedence, patience stays stocked, and intimacy slithers in spoken-unspoken ‘they like it so’. It is also only guided by those who can hold tenderness. Or can own hope in chaos. Some time…

Gender

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My Mother’s Kitchen Bustles with Secrets, Tadkas & Solidarity
My Mother’s Kitchen Bustles with Secrets, Tadkas & Solidarity
Gender

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Mar 3

On Feeling Beautiful

ft. Mum It’s been long since Maa felt beautiful. For days without end, she wouldn’t look in the mirror. For all the obvious reasons, she has changed — swiftly & gradually. Years back, she stopped looking like who she knew she was, & nobody around had the time or empathy…

Body Image

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On Feeling Beautiful
On Feeling Beautiful
Body Image

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Jan 30

A Damning Reflection

Sometimes, only by witnessing a crime do you realise how criminal the act is. One particularly chilly winter evening, while slithering through the busy lanes of the city at its busiest hour, my eyes settled on a few splotches of men peppered all over this end of the street. The…

Women

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A Damning Reflection
A Damning Reflection
Women

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Aug 12, 2022

The Case for Empathy in Menstrual Leaves

It’s been about three years. In the sweltering North Indian summer and half a city away, I interned at a modest organisation swung into activity by less than fifteen folks every day. My days, then, were almost always pre-stuffed with overtime work. I wished to do a lot, and well…

Women

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The Case for Empathy in Menstrual Leaves
The Case for Empathy in Menstrual Leaves
Women

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Aug 3, 2022

Just Us.

It all ends with being in your arms. All rest; I rest. Breathe.

Love

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Just Us.
Just Us.
Love

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Apr 25, 2022

The Responsibility Always Falls on Abuse Survivors

CW// I’m so done with cishet men occupying spaces they do not belong to, debating what they barely understand, creating structures that are inadequate, and yet getting away with the consequences of their unkind, ill-thought, mediocre actions. While, on the other, we question whether we even fit into a movement against hurt, trauma & pain. We keep hoping we’re not diluting the significance of the causes we support with our participation. We educate ourselves to term the violence & the abusers correctly.

Violence

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The Responsibility Always Falls on Abuse Survivors
The Responsibility Always Falls on Abuse Survivors
Violence

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Apr 24, 2022

You cannot tend to what you do not understand.

You cannot tend to what you do not understand.

Care

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You cannot tend to what you do not understand.
You cannot tend to what you do not understand.
Care

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Apr 20, 2022

You make me want to talk about myself.

You make me want to talk about myself. That has been our love.

Love

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You make me want to talk about myself.
You make me want to talk about myself.
Love

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Isha

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