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Back in June, during the second wave of COVID-19, I was assisting one of my friends in raising funds for one of his friend’s parents. The amount…
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Till 2014, like most Indian kids, I had spent my entire life staying in one 3-bedroom flat with my family of 7 in Kolkata. I was always the kind of kid…
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It’s that time of the year - the holidays. It is the time when you are supposed to take a break from your daily life, probably go for a mini-trip to the…
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Over the years, I have been present in a lot of situations where people are meeting each other for the first time. These situations often unfold with…
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What is home? For some people, it is a person. For some others, it is a place. And then there are those who are still trying to find what home means to…
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My journey into feeling too overwhelmed with the climate crisis, overtly pessimistic about life in general to finding hope again through a loving…
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It took me almost 3 years to recover. I hope I can help reduce the recovery time for someone else by sharing my journey and the notion of practising…
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For a very long time, until very recently, I had a deep sense of "saviour complex" engrained within me. I felt a strong urge to fix everything around…
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Nowadays, it only takes one to have an internet connection to be told how fucked up we are. It seems everything around us is falling apart. For a large…
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I am starting to become suspicious of the summers. Not afraid. Just suspicious. Around the same time last year, I took a 2-month break from work as I…
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The year is 2011, the one in which India won the Cricket World Cup after 28 years. You’re in Kolkata, studying in your 9th grade. Your life revolved…
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Do you also have this sulking feeling that time is running out? I’m at my hometown in Kolkata right now and in the past few days, I’ve been visiting a…
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