Song of the month: Stay, Zedd (ft Alessia Cara) April went by in a blur. Mental tiredness has now been replaced by the physical exhaustion. I barely remember anything that happened this month and looking at it in retrospect feels like a totally out of body experience. I have India travel posts coming very soon, so …
I found a few of my old childhood diaries over Christmas. Amongst the ridiculous entries on teenage drama and moaning about how hard school was, spattered in between these entries were occasional list of things I wanted to have achieved by age 25. The lists are long. They include everything from fly around the World, …
One of my fondest family rituals as a child involved hopping into my Mum’s metallic grey Golf and driving for 15 minutes to a dull rectangular building in a nearby town. It didn’t look like much from the outside but it was one of the most magical places I knew: the library. We would go …
I carry the burden of introspection. I carry the cultures and lives I have been a part of. We are constantly looking to identify our ethnicity and acknowledgement of belonging. When I was growing up in the middle east, I was awkwardly attempting to learn more about India, my ‘motherland’. I went to an Indian …
“Cornwall is very primeval: great, black, jutting cliffs and rocks, like the original darkness, and a pale sea breaking in, like dawn. It is like the beginning of the world, wonderful…” – D H Lawrence, Letter 1916 I know Ria is the one who’s on holiday but who ever said you can’t send postcards from …