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good touch

What’s in a touch?

The upper primary school curriculum of West Bengal has recently incorporated a topic on bad touch and good touch. The idea was to develop awareness among students about sexual abuse. Obviously, this has been done keeping an eye on the rising number of assaults on children around the globe. In most cases, the child, unable…

Oh, mirror, mirror, on the wall; Does it matter who’s the fairest of them all?

Oh, mirror, mirror, on the wall; Does it matter who’s the fairest of them all?

Once, someone had told me, “You look so much like your grandmother.”  I didn’t pay heed because I was used to hearing that all the time. It was like how everyone would look at Harry Potter and sigh, wistfully, “Oh, you have your mother’s eyes!”  Be it my eyes or my cheekbones or the shape…

constraint

Give me some space

I was 17 when I started living alone. I was in Bangalore for the last three years, and now, I am in Chennai. And I am a self-declared pro at finding and living in real estate. Well, the budget real estate. The cheap and the decent. The manageable places. The adjustable neighborhoods. The struggle to…

Mr. India needs to start talking about invisible disability

Mr. India needs to start talking about invisible disability

Look at my pictures, meet me, and if I say I have a disability, you wouldn’t believe me. Sometimes I won’t reciprocate to your smile with a smile, and you might be quick to label me as snooty without knowing that I can’t often smile because I have myofascial pain. Some days my brain fog…