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  • A Star Keeps Its Distance

    I wrote a novel. Another one. I have been a writer most of my adult life. I have written essays and a children’s book and more blog posts than I can count. This is different. I want to tell you why. One year ago I started writing a story about a woman named Amaya Stein.…

    Laksh

    March 12, 2026
    Book, Fiction, Musings
    Romance, Writing, Fiction, k-pop, contemporary romance, kdramaesque novel, Amaya Stein
  • It’s Here. My Book.

    Some of you have been waiting for this. Some of you didn’t know it was coming. Either way, I’m glad you’re here to read this. For a long time, the essays that make up this book lived in different corners of the internet — on Women’s Web, on Mutha Magazine, on Adoptive Families, and mostly…

    Laksh

    March 9, 2026
    Book, Essay
    Books, Essays, Memoir, Lakshmi Iyer, Collection, The Smudged HYphen
  • Help Bring Love Chaos Kin to Your City!

    I am back with an update after a long time. As Love Chaos Kin wraps up its film festival run this Summer into Fall, we are actively planning distribution for the film. So, if you have been asking for a screening in your state/city/town or a way to watch the film from the comfort of…

    Laksh

    February 17, 2026
    Documentary, Love Chaos Kin, Musings
    Documentary, Love Chaos Kin, Screening, Screening request form
  • From Blog to Substack: A New Chapter Begins

    With Love Chaos Kin having premiered, it feels like my writing/sharing journey has come full circle. I started micro-blogging somewhere between 2001 and 2003 and writing fairly regularly from 2004 on. What started as daily posts featuring stream of consciousness rants morphed into deep rumination of the state of my world. Writing about infertility and…

    Laksh

    July 17, 2025
    Good Bye, Musings
    Good Bye, Moving, Navigating a new future, Slowing down, Substack

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