Personal Essays
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world. I mean everybody- no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds…Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.” (Neil Gaiman, The
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Post-pandemic, the social media world saw a trend of trad wife influencers getting popular. Suddenly, we started seeing too many trad wives on screen. Trad wives stand for traditional wives. These influencers are claiming that they are embracing their true gender roles and choosing to be stay-at-home wives and moms. These influencers tend to portray
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Do you believe in astrology? Growing up in a Hindu household in Kerala, it was customary for most of us to have our astrology birth chart made and read out to us. Now this typically happens in our childhood, and I have always been curious about it. As a child, my inclination was to believe
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In the midst of these winter days, cooped up in warm blankets, I am irresistibly lost in my reveries of the warm summer sun. It is as if I want the summer back to feel alive again. I am waiting for that warm breeze to put spring back in my heels so that I can
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Growing up, I have seen many women around me who had long forgotten who they were other than for their identities as mothers and wives. They no longer knew what their desires were or what made them happy. All my childhood, I have genuinely wondered why women around me behaved as if they were inferior
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Writing has always felt natural to me. I know I have a lot to share with the world, though I am unclear who would want to hear me. Toni Morrison says in the preface to her first novel, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Her words
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