how wd u feel if u were me?

Got a personal invite from Urvashi of Zubaan to talk on feminist writing at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival this February. I, along with Anjum Hassan, was supposed to represent young Indian women writing in English. And my dearest ultra-ultra-ultra parents said I shouldn’t go because Mumbai is a city where they sell girls…
I just [...]

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what i did this weekend

i never knew it till then, but i guess even you never knew this too..
that Ph.D. students are to write the speech for the vice chancellors.
yeah, i know that this doesn’t happen anywhere else in india, but at my university, i was asked to write a speech on rural education and so on… so what [...]

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