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An Ode to the Motherland
…and a prayer for the world
Aug 15 • 
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December 2024

Granddaughters of the Witches #2
From the Covens of Indus Valley
Dec 21, 2024 • 
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Granddaughters of the Witches #1
Magic, Misogyny, and the Mechanisms of Separation
Dec 1, 2024 • 
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March 2024

A Hunger that Ravaged Bengal
Chapter from History on Starvation as a War Crime
Mar 24, 2024 • 
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February 2024

Awakening from the Colonial Dream
Nilgiris Journal | Part-2
Feb 4, 2024 • 
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January 2024

A Road to Infinity
Nilgiris Journal | Part-1
Jan 28, 2024 • 
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December 2023

Ode to the Tea Gatherers
Spilling the Unpalatable Truth
Dec 6, 2023 • 
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August 2023

Shards of Broken Shackles
Reflecting on India's 77th Year of freedom from the British Raj
Aug 16, 2023 • 
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August 2022

Pocketful of Hexes
Juxtaposing the History of Pockets to the History of Veiled Misogyny
Aug 14, 2022 • 
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May 2022

Wings of Fire - The Forgotten Tradition of Jauhar
The 12th-century Mass Self-Immolation Practiced by Rajput Women
May 29, 2022 • 
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February 2022

Holy Contraptions - A Reverie for Obsolete Kitchen Tools
And the woman who used them
Feb 5, 2022 • 
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January 2022

Priestesses and Prostitutes
A Life Spent in Servitude
Jan 22, 2022 • 
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