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Mar 2, 20232 min read
Did you find my language by Aditi Burman
Image: Rajendra Biswal via Unsplash When you spot me in a red Chanderi kurta embroidered with Srayikkadu patterns, white, green, blue and...
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Feb 23, 20238 min read
Six Words to Sentence A Marriage
Image: Debby Hudson for Unsplash The women in my family are meticulous record keepers. We aren’t athletes or statisticians or historians....
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Nov 10, 20224 min read
Hand me downs
Image: Louis Hansel, Unsplash She squatted on the damp earth, the folds of her sari spread out between her knees like a net, catching...
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Sep 16, 20222 min read
Stairs
by Rituparna Mukherjee Image by Asha Jain via Unsplash I was back at the stairs again. This time it was dark A familiar odour filled the...
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Sep 8, 202212 min read
With or Without You
image: Tirza Van Dijk on Unsplash Diya looked through the grimy steel bars of the bus window. Crows were perched on cows that dotted the...
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Apr 28, 20227 min read
Breakeven
Four Years Later She The rain falls thick and heavy. She sits at her desk and for the first time in four years, the words do not come....
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Oct 5, 20215 min read
BIRD IN THE HAND
They had been married two days shy of 8 years and the silences had begun like a small scratch and then deepened into a wound. It had...
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Jun 3, 20211 min read
OFFERING
“You can’t bring that in here”, they tell me So I leave it at the door It is ugly but it will keep my dusty slippers company As I walk...
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