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Lightning’s tail

“To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the…

11 min readOct 10, 2022

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Lightning’s tail

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Tabeer

The body knows itself to be pure water or pure burning. — Emmanuel Levinas, Proper Names

10 min readJul 8, 2022

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The author’s photograph as a child wearing a gold and green dress in the sunlight.

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Malpaís / Badlands

I don’t go to poems for skillful ease or what’s rote. I come seeking an empathic witness, what the Sufi calls ruhul seyrani — the moving…

4 min readDec 4, 2021

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Malpaís / Badlands

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The Smallest Tear

The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between…

5 min readSep 22, 2021

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The Smallest Tear

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Unhurried Blooming

After my best friend got divorced, she decided she needed a hobby.

2 min readApr 4, 2021

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A transparent tea cup containing flowering tea. Lavender and condiments strewn around it along with a bunch of leaves.

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Four Elsewheres

After Bhanu Kapil : “To write the disaster as a mode of revision: detection, containment, recovery, reconstitution. Translation: 4 kinds…

10 min readAug 22, 2020

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Four Elsewheres

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Layers of Fear

Psychological horror is a redundancy. violence is intimacy inverted. The mind’s dark train whistles through several cratered fiction of…

6 min readJul 16, 2020

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Layers of Fear

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Notes from therapy: Scatterlings, egg-tray farming, abandoned dogs, insomnia & the pandemic

Lately, I have taken to growing coriander and mint in discarded egg-trays. It is interesting how almost all of 90s sci-fi films imagined…

9 min readApr 26, 2020

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A scattering of pink petals along a walking path

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Today, We

Today we stay home and practice a radical vulnerability. Today we invite a trembling loneliness to the breakfast table and ask if it…

3 min readMar 22, 2020

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Safeguarding Online Mental Health

Content Note : Suicide and Self Harm Mention

5 min readSep 11, 2019

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Safeguarding Online Mental Health

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ʇsnſ ʇuıɐs

scherezade siobhan or scherezadenfreude. psychologist. writer. runs thetalkingcompass — www.thetalkingcompass.com. personal website — www.zaharaesque.com

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