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Though I feel like a foreigner in almost every space I inhabit, the arts have been my refuge. I feed off artists’ passion for honing practices that...
The best outcomes of my life are the result of following this powerful compass, which enables one to gravitate towards all that is nourishing and...
Celebrities with massive followings should use their powerful voices sincerely to effect change. Their ethics and behaviour must resonate harmoniously...
For me, holding a job reduces the drudgery tied to the singularity of the maternal identity. Working with students is the most rewarding form of...
Having faith in myself and my near and dear ones, rejecting guilt and resting in the knowledge of having made empowering choices have helped me deal...
As I prepare to make my first solo international trip post-motherhood, I marvel at how much and how far I have journeyed since my move to South Tyrol,...
The world’s glaring apathy towards the plight of Palestinian people in war-torn Gaza, whose lives are being gambled with, invalidated and regularly...
Standing up for a cause takes a heavy economic and emotional toll on champions of justice. One wonderful thing a sympathiser can do is to show up and...
Choosing to abandon problematic personality traits and parenting techniques we imbibe from our forebears can help break the cycle of...
We tend to forget how crucial cooking can be towards nursing our sense of agency and looking after our bodies, which are worthy of care and...
For me, this practice includes befriending failure, acknowledging the presence of frequent bouts of loneliness and embracing the fact that making a...
While war rages on and the bodies of innocents pile up, we keep ourselves occupied as pausing would compel us to acknowledge the scale of our grief...
Answering the calling of motherhood means having to live in the trenches constantly, doing messy, unpaid, revolutionary work What...
I cannot express what it means to have fragments of my existence on record in this space and you, dear reader, witness my life through this ongoing...
Seeing how I always chose to place faith in myself in trying times, I have zero regrets about how things have come to pass for me. Now, I’m in a...
On returning to the city after four years, I’m happy to know I still belong. When I am here, something kicks in, enabling me to easily slip into...
With the best year of my working life drawing to a close, I feel humbled by the rewarding work that is behind me. As I wait to see what 2024 has in...
Although student life had its fair share of bad times, there were many moments that defy credulity, like when my teachers saw in me potential,...
I am learning to separate the essence of Christianity from the institution and to see how it is kept vital and alive because of the faith people have...
Committing a potentially punishable offence first and apologising later, rather than considering the moral and ethical dimensions of one’s actions,...
I feel a tremendous amount of tenderness nowadays when I think about where I came from and how the people there shaped my being and offered a sense of...
The idea of child-rearing being the sole domain of the woman needs to be turned on its head, starting with how we approach this gender inequality in...
Our never-ending task’s nature instils a resilience that sustains us. To know that the project will remain unfinished becomes a source of hope...
I had a moment of solitude in Ljubljana where I felt grateful to myself for having lived with abandon and audacity. Now, I have no second thoughts...
Pedicures may seem overpriced where I live, but given the specialised care feet require and amount of comfort I feel after the treatment, I’m...
The brutality witnessed with the horrific escalation of violence in Gaza and global surge in anti-semitic and Islamophobic incidents defy...
Nurturing personal interests and passions, embracing our bodies by committing to healing and saying no to work that is unlikely to spark joy are some...
Could the world be re-organised in a manner where priority is given to how it can be accessed by those most vulnerable, those most in need of support...
Our obsession with frugality, which tends to chip into our sense of self-worth, has its roots in financial trauma that pervades our consciousness and...
While systemic misogyny holds women to insane standards of motherhood, I am grateful to live in a place where judgements are not overt and...
Being an editor has exposed me to a wealth of artistic practices. Having the words of others as one’s primary material fosters a sense of...
This fabulously written series may not pass the Bechdel test with flying colours, but its depiction of how patriarchy perpetuates itself and the price...