About a month ago, I had an unsolicited experience that made me curious, and I wanted to share the same with you. I met a group of transgender people. They have communication networks through which they come to know about auspicious occasions and happenings such as marriages and baby showers. They come to such events…
It was like any other normal day. Hundreds of people wearing the same clothes entering a building around 8 am and leaving after around six hours, doing the same activities as always. You have probably guessed which building I am talking about, if not let me give you one more hint. Entering into this building…
There is nothing as powerful or as alluring as the Forbidden Fruit. That Adam and Eve can have everything, everything from the blue waters, enormous mountains, and peace and harmony between man and beast. They can have everything but the one fruit. It was near, and yet so far. It was like the carrot that…
My cousin is married to a constructor. She routinely has to cook for a large number of people her husband employs for his business. She has no housemaid and has to do all the household chores herself, in addition to the cooking. This obviously took a toll on her health. Her son, my nephew, noticing…
(This is the second in a two part fictional series. First part of this article is already published here) “Sapiens perceive spaces such as oceanic water and space as international spaces. Till now, the atrocities recollected were done by Sapiens within lands, which they perceive as sovereign and national. International spaces are, according to Sapiens…
Emotions like resentment transmogrifying into anger often acquire an unprecedented vigor. While the socio-political discourse can routinely be dominated by alienations and a whirlwind of ambiguities in thoughts defining political vibrancy, inherent resistance continues to be built on harsh realities. History has borne testimony to the fact that people’s sovereignty has managed to triumph over…
I became a parent at the end of 2008, so it has been a little more than a decade on this roller-coaster as they say. Parenting in this new millennium is certainly not what it looked like before this. There were no mobile phones in our homes and relationships, there was no online existence sometimes…
2019 has been a year of unrest. People all around the world from Hong Kong to Chile, from France to India took to the streets to raise their voices against tyranny. All these protests have one thing in common – Protest Songs. We can hear people in the streets singing Bella Ciao, A rapist in…
A veterinary doctor was gang-raped and murdered by four persons (2 truck drivers and 2 cleaners) near the Outer Ring Road at Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad on the night of November 27, 2019. According to the police, the accused (aged between 20 and 26) had trapped the victim by puncturing the rear tyre…
(This is article is the first in a 3 part series on ‘Nourishers in Our Lives – What They Leave Us With & What We Give Back?’ The remaining two would be published in the coming days) Nourishing It was in a cab ride involving two newbie teachers that this conversation on nourishing came up. As…
(This article is the first in a two part series. The second part is published here) As the Homo Sapiens of India was gearing up for the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it occurred to the august minds of their winged, scaly, four-legged co-inhabitants of the earth to have a similar exercise. This was especially…
“What the actual fuck are you talking about?!” I had gotten up to drink some water in the middle of the night. I switched on my data to go on Whatsapp. One of the chats was from my friend in Sacramento, US. Him: Rekha! OMG! Kobe Bryant died. My gasp was audible. I couldn’t believe…
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