Category: Musings
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Children’s Literature in India: A New Era
The Week, India carries an article on children’s literature in which I am featured. Read the article here.
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Love Chaos Kin – Trailer
Here’s a peek into what the film offers. Love Chaos Kin Watch More of these on the video archive →
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Reconnecting with Reality: My Path to Engagement
On Saturday, I decided on impulse to join a friend and meet with my fellow They See Blue PA members. The election is a raw gaping wound in all of us and I was wary of going there and feeling ripped and being in pain again. But, it helped. Sitting with others who felt more…
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Finding Solace: Writing Through Political Disappointment
Tuesday, November 12 reads the home screen of my phone. I feel sucker punched knowing it has been a week since the election and, we have already settled into a new normal. None of this is surprising yet, I feel a sense of loss I can’t articulate. In the wake of the election results becoming…
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My Bora Hued Bangtan Boys
Purple. That’s the color of my love for my bora hued bangtan boys. They entered my life nonchalantly, in shades of lavender and lilac. Mild. Unassuming. I sang along their corny lyrics to Butter with my then tweens and seven-year-old. They were passing clouds then, periwinkle blips in my otherwise drab existence. I discovered V,…
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Embracing Uncertainty in Writing and Life
The jeep bounces on bumpy roads and, I jiggle along, moving in sync with each bump and jump. I feel free, unfettered from all that has bound me thus far. It has been days since I called in to check on my little girls. It has been days since I caught up on the five…
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Hindsight – A Book Review
I haven’t written in a long time for reasons I will post about in another blog. Today I want to talk about a great book I read by Lakshmi Iyer called… Hindsight – A Book Review
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Embracing Namjooning: A Joyful Literary Journey
It’s out, the first issue of Literary Namjooning. A few months ago, Hema of Mixed Bag reached out to Melissa and I asking if we would be interested in curating a selection of pieces that centered the act of namjooning. As ARMY and as someone who has grown to idolize Kim Namjoon, this was right…
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The Business of Self-Publishing: Beyond Writing and Editing
Amazon Accounts Payable reads the email notification at the top of my phone. I click on it too hurriedly only to realize I need to log in to check the details. An hour later, kitchen chores done, walk after dinner done, kids suitably engrossed in their phones and Amma downstairs in bed, I finally sit…