Home, after twenty years, finally home. She walked into her room, so familiar, yet unrecognizable. As she looked around, she realised how little things had changed back home. It felt like she had stepped into a “time vault” of her own creation, from her soft toys to her artwork as a child, everything perfectly preserved.
Introduction Imagine waking up in the morning and sipping black tea as you go through the morning paper, followed by a green smoothie and a gluten-free sandwich topped with avocado. Sounds peachy and awesome, doesn’t it? There is nothing wrong with eating healthy and being at zen but when it becomes an obsession and reaches […]
When I first met Sanskriti, she wore a frilly white dress with yellow trim, finishing with white sandals. I glanced at her nervously as her long, curly hair ran down her delicate nutbrown skin. She had flown down from Qatar to spend the summer with her grandparents and spoke an outlandish accent. I had some […]
‘He will take all the space’, ‘she has put on a lot of weight’, you might have used these phrases when you came across a fat person but you weren’t aware of a very important fact. He is already starving himself and she hasn’t eaten her favourite cake in years. We call someone fat without […]
As the sun wielded over the fading moon,And the birds started singing stories of the ancient one, We sat across each other, on a Zoom call. Talking of unheard miseries of each other, So long till we meet again, bound to our homes now. We are playing Truth and Dare,You ask me what reminds me […]