Find the Threads
Through creative nonfiction and braided essays, I explore the contours of my lived experience.
Essays are my favorite way to chew on a tough issue. Over and over again, I am reminded, the personal is never just personal, but part of something vast and deeply collective.
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In 2020, I wrote The COVID Essays, a series of 40 intimate reflections from the eye of the storm. Through story, I unpacked feminism, decolonization, ableism, fatphobia, creativity, and more all rooted in the complex perspective of the Global South.
I continue this work through my Substack newsletter, Hold The Complex, a space where I write about what we often overlook, what deserves more time, more depth, more love.
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Loss
What I learned about love after losing the man who could fix anything.
Art
Notes from my first nude performance. On art, vulnerability, and what happens when a woman becomes the artwork, not just the artist.
Love
From Bangalore milkmen to modern dating apps, this is a story about aging in a world obsessed with expiration dates.
Loss
A daughter remembers her father through the pressed shirts, polished shoes, and small dignities of a life well lived.
Art
Sometimes, the teachers we need most don’t speak our language.
Love
What grief took from me, what it gave back, and the life I’m still learning to live.
