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Red Lipstick

‘I was her friend even before I was born.’ This thought raced in my young mind as my mother, and I crept silently to Lily’s mother’s room. The room was huge, with a high ceiling and windows with ledges and ornate
January 25, 2024

The Story of My Hair and Now

‘I wish I could do it. It needs so much strength and courage. I don’t have it’, stated a random stranger, admirably pointing at my shaved head. ‘Well, you just need a barber to do this, not really courage’, I responded.
October 25, 2023

The Summer of My Freedom

The sofa smelled like toast. My head had been forced into its corner. The upholstery was frayed in this part, and I could see a tiny brown piece of bread tucked into a crevice in the cushion. This would be the
July 25, 2023

Motherhood Taught Me to Stop Dishing Out Advice

Nothing prepared me for motherhood. Nothing at all. Not my 20 years of professional experience, nor my 17-18 years of experience of running the household for my mother who hated the job, nor taking care of my father through his one-year
July 25, 2023

Denied Permission to Visit My Father’s Grave

It was cool and breezy with intermittent rains on 14 July 2022 – Mumbai’s maddening monsoon showed its divine mercy on my father’s funeral. As I recited the Quran and let my tears flow, I couldn’t help but marvel at the
July 25, 2023

A Mum- Loaned to Me

Soon after my first birthday, my mum died of a sudden heart attack, leaving my heartbroken father with ten children to care for. I was the youngest, and besides my incredibly patient and caring father, I had many older sisters
July 25, 2023

The Impelling Power of Powerlessness

Once, while returning from a conference by the metro bus in the bustling city of Istanbul, I witnessed a fair-statured woman with an autistic girl getting in and taking their seats in the rear. The woman appeared in a perfectly calm disposition;
April 25, 2023
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