Words Unfiltered by S
[This article was first written for and published on The Opinion Panel. This is just a snippet of the article.] As I write this, I’m a few short weeks away from turning 22, something I am both looking forward to and dreading, because it means getting another year older, but still not having accomplished everything…
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[read about brown boy privilege here.] When it comes to marital relationships in brown culture, there’s something like a guideline to adhere to, lest we’re told to return to our father’s home and not go back. It’s misogynistic, sexist and dripping with patriarchy.
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[This is a snippet from a letter in the “Dear past me” section I wrote for Clitbait.]
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It’s one-thirty a.m. as I write this, on august 26, and it’s my birthday. I’m twenty-two today. It feels a little surreal and weird to have gotten here, not that I thought I wouldn’t make it to this age, this very moment per se, just that so much has happened. Everything that transpired over the…
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I am five days away from turning twenty-two and I feel like utter shit so I just need to write it out. It feels weird, being so close to a new age, a new year of life, with so many things having come together and fallen apart, the tears at the seams seeming so irreparable,…
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Thoughts begin to accumulate, feelings slowly build and rise inside, a whisper of a forsaken past and memories from Before. Nostalgia sweeps in like a suffocating embrace, blurring the hopes for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow with the ever constant pressure from Now. Achievements always in comparison, never enough, a hopeless fire of rage and…
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[this a poem featured in my collection, Lost and Found.]
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Disclaimer: picture credit: Steph Martin Note: I was going through a few of my things to re-organise and came across this op-ed I wrote in 2015 on the gender pay gap. It is still, unfortunately relevant. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported: Among all employees the [gender pay] gap fell from 17.8% in 2018…
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Throughout history and literature, there have been various forms of art depicting, explaining and showcasing love, and along with it, heartbreak. They are not just words you read or hear about, but rather emotions felt reverberating in the deepest parts of us, for as long as we’ve existed. I’ve felt both. I have written about…
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Dear “What Will People Say?” or “Manushe Kita Khoyba?” or “Log Kya Kahenge?”, First of all, nobody likes you.
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