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One such day
You know one of those rare days when you your brain has no thoughts and is not screaming at you and everything in this world is so calm and breezy? After a confusing yesterday it felt alien to have a good morning. And yet there it was; a morning with a quiet brain folding blanket.…
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Look look! An aeroplane.
I had a dream. A part of the dream involved my preparations to go to Mumbai on flight. Dream me also realises that this will be the first time I’ll be travelling in an aeroplane. I plan on writing everything I was going to experience mid air. In my dream,I dreamt about the book I…
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Clayton Atreus wrote an entire chapter in his memoir as he stabbed himself to death. I am merely in intense intestinal pain, I can write. Living alone meant you must take the role of everyone and everything you are familiar as a family. You had to be the dad who always prioritises eating vegetables and…
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Spill the T!
I never bothered to learn about menstrual hygiene. How long should you wear a pad? What’s the right way to wear a pad? Should you remove your sheddi and paste it or can you place it with your sheddi removed till your thighs? I had no prediction on when my period is due. It comes…
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Who are you really?
I’m meeting her today for the first time. Probably. I’ve been hearing her name everyday for nearly 8 years. Mom told me she will be coming home today evening. She wasn’t very happy about her coming. But today is the last day so mom let it go. It’s weird to meet a person for the…
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There is no space to swim in the sambar
After I started living alone, I wanted to cook for three reasons. 1- Eating out everyday is expensive 2- I wanted to be better than my parents and prove to them I’m a better person in their absence 3- To dismantle cooking recipes and add what I want when I want however I want. The…
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It’s my birthday!
Birthdays excite me. Mine and others. I spend months trying to figure out the perfect gift for all my friends and weeks finding them. All my friends had an entire month dedicated for them. And Nov 30!, woah, that’s the day I wait all my second term in school. I changed over time and with…
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I can’t write to you, so I write to the world.
I am sitting in the balcony listening to some nice Carnatic music. It’s freezing outside but my thoughts keep me warm. I was smiling for no particular reason. You crossed my mind and I smiled a curvature more. I miss you. It’s a pleasant unattended longing that I share with my freezing hands and smiling…
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Love is different here
Kuro is the most expressive of the two. When he needs love and warmth, he surely jumps onto my face and kneads bread right on my lips with no regard. His wet nose is always booping my cheeks. He finds comfort in every part of my body even the unpleasant parts like my flat raised…