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Pratham’s #OneDayOneStory2020 | Season 9 Online

Every year on World Literacy Day, Pratham Books conducts its One Day One Story Event. And this year was no different!

Despire Covid-19, I was glad to be a part of #OneDayOneStory2020 which took place on Septmenber 9th, Wednesday (a workday, and I feel good to still manage to record this story and share it with you all!).

I have been a part of the event twice before through my previous role…

𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘

Picture by @calmpixelz

I see these curvy pictures all over the internet, I look at my body and wonder – if I could eat a little less and be like them.. or workout a little more maybe I would then.. a belly on my abs, extra hips on my sides, arms are double-flab and ass covered with cellulite; watching “I feel pretty” felt nice but the society I live in still wants lean bodies for the spotlight sometimes it…

Art Exhibit | Kochi Biennale 2019

Body is beauty, respect it – especially when women empower themselves with the courage to finally break free. Don’t make nudity synonymous with “dirty”, or “exposing”, or “asking for it”. Nudity is natural.  Clothes are made by humans. Sex is natural: consensual sex is love-making; non-consensual sex is rape, violence; Sex includes phone/video sex, pictures of…

we all have choices we only lack the courage to make them ~ 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺 ~

Picture from art exhibit at Kochi Biennale 2019

Something is wrong with me. I don’t feel fine. I don’t know.

What could be wrong with you dude, your life is so good! You have a nice job, you live on your own with your partner. What are you complaining about?

I don’t know, I can’t really explain it. Something internally keeps bothering me. Like a void that I’m not able to fill. Like I’m…

Illustration by Preethi

Frowning Clown has released another poem of mine as part of a competition. It’s a poem from one of my earlier posts titled ‘Anxiety’ that I have performed for this entry.

Please watch, like, comment and share! 🙏🏽 One of the components to win the competition is audience appeal (number of likes/views/shares etc) 🙈🙈🙈 This is only if you like the poem – no obligation!

Frowning Clowns ft. I Wasn’t Too Unlucky | Poetry Podcast

Hello everyone!

I’m very excited to share that Frowning Clowns has featured one of my poems on their podcast. If you find time, do listen to it and let me know what you think!

Feel free to comment or DM me on Insta! (https://www.instagram.com/srishtika.pdf/)

I would love to hear your views and get some feedback 🙂

Link to poem: https://youtu.be/I9ZhhHUV3MQ

Hope you have fun…

My earlier post ‘Celebration of Life‘, is available as a reading as well.

Please find it on Instagram:

Link – https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wC6jKlpkn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Thank you for the opportunity. I look forward to writing and sharing more. Your sessions – especially the themes – give me a lot of inspiration. I hope to grow…

“So many things to do, the world to see; And here I lie – bickering bitterly.”

I wrote that quote on March 6 and on rereading it today I became aware of an important thought process. That I am stuck with certain past impressions of myself that had become dominant during my depressive phase.

That quote is true for times I had no will or determination. Or for times when I’d make a plan but…