female friendship
कुछ साल पहले ही मुझे एहसास हुआ कि जब भी मैं भविष्य के बारे में सोचती हूँ, तो मेरे मन में हमेशा अपनी सबसे करीबी महिला मित्रों की तस्वीर उभरती है। मेरे हर फ़ैसले पर सबसे ज़्यादा असर उन्हीं का पड़ता है…
“दोस्त” का इकलौता विकल्प ख़ुद “दोस्त” है। स्थिर और एकमात्र।
The Debrief is a girlhood ritual as old as dating itself.
I pride myself on being a fast learner. Yet it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that shopping,…
As a girl, I was made to believe that pleasure was something that existed outside my body, something that I had to seek out, something that was necessarily a product of a partnered experience. I don’t think I was even allowed to want pleasure, especially in its sexual forms.
Friendship – a place where we can be ourselves as we truly are, with no artifice. A place of peace,…
We are trained to see friendship as secondary love, but what if it is the first?
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”