When you tear a banyan fig open, chances are you will find a colony of tiny insects/ larvae inside it. But how did they get there? Certain wasp species co-evolved with banyans. An impregnated female wasp carrying pollen enters the banyan fig, deposits pollen, lays her eggs and dies. When…

I grew up loving lantana. The multicoloured flowers. The dark blue berries I loved to eat (in moderation). The butterflies that visited them. I even like the weird smell the leaves gave out when crushed. During the pandemic, when sunbirds and silverbills started visiting my balcony, I dreamt of getting…

“Everything in Legal Fiction is fiction. All that is fiction is fiction, of course, but even truth is fiction. If the people, stories, places and incidents at any point appear to be true, it is our collective misfortune. …

[Published in Youth Ki Awaaz] When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overthrew the Roe v/s Wade judgment, a section of cis-het men from India took to social media to talk gleefully about how India is way ahead of the United States when it comes to reproductive rights…

[Published in Women’s Web.] When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overthrew the Roe v/s Wade judgement, women across the world drowned in collective grief because we realised that women have essentially been denied autonomy over our own bodies. …

Fear. That thing you are taught to conquer. To deny. The only thing you have to fear is fear itself you remind yourself when you face yet another situation you cannot control. You learn to manage the fear. You make decision trees, you assess the risks, you assign weightages, and…

[I wrote this in 2019. That was the year when I stopped waiting for ‘someone else’ to do what had to be done. Looking back, I have continued to redeem that pledge I made to myself.] Last year, on my birthday, I promised myself that I would accomplish three things…

[First published in Women’s Web] A young couple who were sitting on a bed, presumably kissing, pull apart when the door flings open and four friends walk into the room. “Shot mara lagta hai”, says one. “Haan maara”, replies the boy who is with the girl. “Ab hamari baari”, says…

[First published in Women’s Web] “Our warmest congratulations to Katherine Brunt & Nat Sciver who got married over the weekend” tweeted England Cricket, the official home of all of the England Cricket teams on Twitter. …