the cutting chai
Journal entries and voice memos on love, identity, survival and growth from one desi immigrant's chai and smoke sessions
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Episode #34: Go Get ‘Em, Spider (opens the original)
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Sometimes you look around your life and see a spider on the wall. You don’t rush to trap it or squash it. You just observe it, its furry brown body, making its skittering way. You look away, then, and take stock: dirty makeup brushes on an overcrowded desk, a frayed bra draped over an armrest, a glass of water coated in a thin film of dust. Your whitebo… Read more
Episode #34: Mama's Little Misery (opens the original)
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I wrote my first book last year, and in doing so, I checked a box on my list of childhood dreams.The good news is that the book was met with a lot of love. The bad news is that none of that love came from me.The truth is, I hated my book, and I hated myself for writing it. I hated the pitiful slice of my love life within its pages, love that was neither… Read more
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