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Category: Home Things

Category: Home Things

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Losing my mind : UA edition
May 11, 2021 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Losing my mind : UA edition

Mumma has forever used Emotional Blackmailing as her primary negotiation / parental strategy. Her favorite “I will not take my medicines if you…” used to nudge me …

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Aapko Chahiye?
March 17, 2021 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Aapko Chahiye?

or ‘Things people are not telling you about kids, so you make more’ a list Babyr- yelled at a neighbor for not inviting her to his wedding, …

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I am Orange
January 11, 2021 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

I am Orange

R and I have been going for 5 pm walks every day. It has been a month and now we’ve become a gang of 8. It started …

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Trying to bathe in peace: my life in metaphors
November 28, 2020 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Trying to bathe in peace: my life in metaphors

Imagine this: you oiled your hair with a mix of walnut, castor, coconut, flaxseed, and almond oil. On the binary of ‘hasn’t bathed in 4 days’ and …

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Diwalis are dissonant.
November 17, 2020 April 21, 2022 Becoming me / Home Things / Writing

Diwalis are dissonant.

Diyas and lanterns are the stuff of my soul. I am also grateful for family and friends coming together with the soul aim of making merry and …

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Boring banado ji ab is raatko
November 4, 2020 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Boring banado ji ab is raatko

Today was normal. After a long time, I lived a day where nothing overwhelming happened. There were no cancers, no deaths, no CT scans, arm slings, or …

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October 22, 2020 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Photostories / Travel Essays

Homeward

Things at home are heavy. Hospitals seem to drag themselves into our living room. It is difficult to think about anything but cancer and babyR’s violent attention-seeking …

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August 25, 2020 April 21, 2022 Becoming me / Home Things / Writing

An Atheist at Ganesh Chaturthi

I was raised as an atheist by atheist parents who participated in/held poojas as a cultural phenomenon. We did the whole picking a Ganpati, hosting it, saying …

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Entertaining myself- Losing my mind
July 17, 2020 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Entertaining myself- Losing my mind

Mumma yells at me for baking and then finishes all my cinnamon rolls leaving none for my coffee accomplishment, she also tells me to marry any male, …

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Voices outside my room
July 9, 2020 May 20, 2022 Home Things / Writing

Voices outside my room

I don’t find in me the energy to do much, so I listen a lot and my favorite voices are: Mumma and babyr playing doctor-doctor “Madam stomach …

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