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Sucheta Tiwari

Sucheta is psychiatrist with an interest in women’s experiences of mental ill-health especially in the perinatal period. She is also a mother and a writer. She is a perpetual migrant who comes from places called Ramgarh, Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Talcher, but has learnt to call both Delhi and London home.

The Dreams of Matrescence

A little girl burnt my house down. Dancing on the rooftop, warm summer sun, magnifying glass in hand. She giggled and burnt my house down. In this dream, I was six years old and in my school bus moments before my house
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