Spoiler Alert — I am far from sorry — A typical day in a typical Indian household starts with the mother waking up the earliest and getting straight to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and pack lunch for the whole family, including herself. The father usually wakes up half an hour later to freshen up and get hot tea…

We do not condemn arranged marriages, but the casteist, colourist and sexist approach needs to end — If you grew up hearing and believing “Matches are made in heaven” only, and not “Matches are made after considering the religion, the caste, skin colour (fair, obviously), salary and the family status” then you’ve probably had the privilege of living in a progressive family in India or the western…

Loving me was enough to hate love — Do watch the video for the spoken-word version of the poem on youtube :) There was a kindness in his anger so subtle, not sinister in the slightest sense, so godly, turned a heathen like me into a pilgrim so sympathetic, he’d rather let his throat ache, punch his own face, cut his tongue off, and…

And the science behind it might help you too — Two years ago, I gave up the well-renewed but the not-so-well-executed tradition of keeping ‘New Year Resolutions’ and bid it goodbye in perpetuity. Most of my past resolutions were to either start a healthy diet or join a gym, and they’d last for a good month or two before retiring…

Of Poetry and People Newsletter #2 — “Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all…