Category: Essays
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Do You Still Practice Astrology?
“Do you still practice astrology?” I get some version of this question every once in a while and my answer usually is “not anymore” or “no time to do it well”. I enjoy reading charts. I love distilling archetypes from the chart and seeing which parts resonate and those that don’t. The act of reading…
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Prasna: For the Seeker In Me
From the yellow-tinted jadagams of a Chennai childhood to a tool on my own desk that reads both zodiacs: what fifty years with the quality of time built.
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On Becoming a Writer
From the treadmill call that started Why Is My Hair Curly? to the week before Why Is My Skin Brown? launches: on writing from memory, writing toward hope, and the label she finally let herself claim.
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What the Immigrant Mother Keeps
What does the immigrant mother actually keep. Not the language, not the ceremonies, but the invisible knowledge that settles in the hands without being formally taught. On Tamil American motherhood and what survives the crossing.
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Teaching the Kaapi
When nothing is genetic, what do immigrant mothers pass down? On kaapi, Tamil American motherhood, and the slow sediment of a life being observed.
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The Cheapest Infrastructure
I sat down to fix a broken connection. Two hours later I was three clicks away from buying a $10 domain I did not need. On the difference between solving a problem and solving the problem the solution created.
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^NARS
I planted twenty-six lines into a database my husband architected. One per year of our marriage. He has not seen this part yet.