oh I don't know- DRAMA?

More than two decades ago, in an unknown hospital in a dusty town Kerala, I was delivered. With the first scent of the drama that my life if going to be, my little self launched into a long, tortured cry which was mistaken by the doctors to be a normal slap-a-baby’s-butt-to-make her-cry cry.

Continue Reading 06 Feb 2017

And when I was about to leave that last stretch of beautiful sky behind,

There are some moments in life which are so vivid that they etch themselves into your being. Moments so fleeting that if you’d chosen to blink instead you would have missed them altogether. They dawn on you when you least expect it, at the most insignificant of times, following no particular pattern.

Continue Reading 03 Feb 2017

How many more children's spirits will we sacrifice at the altar of "education"? What have we done? What are we doing?

Most people are surprised when I tell them that by 12th grade I’d studied in 10 different schools. Yes, 10 schools. From fancy Air Force schools to Kendriya Vidyalayas that have students from all classes, religions and backgrounds to a state-syllabus school in Karnataka to an Indian embassy school in ‘the Gulf’, I have seen most of what our system has to offer. And I’m sad to say that it...

Continue Reading 31 Jan 2017

Time we told our daughters they are in charge of their own story.

When you remove the patriarchy tinted glasses forced on you since childhood, a lot of things begin to clear up. You see things for what they are. You notice the ‘little things’ that have a lasting impact and how they end up forming attitudes of entire societies.

Continue Reading 30 Jan 2017

One who knows it all. I am free.

The sea sways impatiently as it waits for the sun to set, sending wave after wave rolling to the shore. It waits for them to meet, even if for a brief moment. And finally the sun descends and comes close, almost kissing, until it slips behind the horizon, leaving the sea with a demanding moon instead.

Continue Reading 29 Jan 2017

ideal womanhood.

In her lifetime a woman takes on a range of roles. However, it’s her roles which are in relation to others (most of the time men) that she is asked to live up to the most. Countless are the articles which go “A women is a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother so….”. My gripe is with the word ‘so’ here. It makes the respect that a woman deserves...

Continue Reading 28 Jan 2017