Category: #Freedom
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Will She Let Us Decide What She Does With Her Body?
Clothing Rules as Boundary Tests in Patriarchal Families “Will she let us decide what she does with her body?” Many clothing rules imposed upon women who marry into patriarchal families. This is rarely spoken out aloud, and the argument is often framed as modesty, respect, safety or family values. The…
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Rhythm
As I stand, gazing at the rain,The droplets trickling down the window pane,My eyes mist over brief recollections,Of stolen moments under the grey heavens,Where, unbridled, I courted freedomEnjoying every import of humdrumThe mind once smogged with lackadaisical dreams,And in the heart where only serenity screamedI ask myself now, ‘What’s bereft’?For…
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A Promise Of Faith
(Forceful religious conversions, making a spouse give up their personal faith in inter-religious marriages, is one of the very poignant issues, prevalent across our society since ages, which is what inspired me to come up with this fiction.) It was 5 pm. As the rickshaw took through the traffic jammed…
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Sometimes I feel… (Poem)
Sometimes I feel like taking on the world by storm, Dart ahead, achieve my dreams, shine, tearing all the norms Imagine myself alone, rip every boundary, without an ounce of care, Sans dubiety, keep going places, for that’s how my career should fare, Sometimes I wish life just went by,…
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Priceless Solitary Ice-Cream Dates (Poem)
(Below is a non-fiction, for at some period of life, I truly loved my daily Ice-cream rendezvous, on my way home, back from work. And today when I got an unforseen chance to revisit that moment it was fun. This also made me realise that as life progresses, we give…
Affinity and Moods 