Thought Pieces

Duty Centricity. I first consciously thought of this concept when I went on fieldwork to rural Bihar researching with mothers during their pregnancy and lactation journey. Though, this concept is not very alien to the context of many women even in urban India, especially among the generation of our mothers. In my own context, my mother was taught, no wait, trained to decenter self. “Your husband goes to work, have the lunch ready by 11am” - so he can eat and then go. Kid’s s

I quit MBBS. I did it. At the age of 17, I made a tough choice of giving up a secured medical seat I earned through merit. I left it for an equally deserving and more desiring NEET MHT CET aspirant. With the current political atmosphere across India, where the youth is asking for accountability stemming from the NEET issue, I can’t help but re-live my journey of 11th and 12th grade. Oh those gruelling days of preparing for and participating in the entrance exams alongside 1.

Things rarely go as planned in life, and that’s a good thing! Time and again, I have had to make big decisions in life that didn’t sound sane to others (or even to myself) and yet it all worked out. Today I share one such life story where I followed that tiny glimmer of hope and it changed my life. Forever! On that morning of August 2020, the clock displayed 5:00, as I whiled my time away doomscrolling. Wondering, what next? I had built a good life in Chicago. I had built a g