Category: Essays

The very nature of ‘belonging’ to a caste paradoxically alienates and isolates me, even though this alienation is something I
wilfully choose

Grief is a matter of space. Distance is death.

From that day forth, as I progressed on through the rest of primary and into secondary, my sense of unbelonging dissipated

I oscillate back and forth like a thurible. Weighing the cultural capital of her belonging against my own perceptions of morality.

You don’t usually become aware of your identity until you are told to be, i.e., until you are told to live in a constant awareness of it. Human beings tend to live comfortably and freely in their person until society interrupts and tells them to do otherwise. This has been the experience of my entire… Continue reading One Layer at a Time