Translucent Thoughts

  • Dancing is the Best Release

    “When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me for a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 1966, my father was born in Hyderabad, India. As a student, he performed poorly in front of his teachers. Papa was an athlete and a dancer. In these roles,…

  • Depression Intelligence

    I have taken a hundred and two-day voluntary hiatus from writing for this blog. Not for my usual reasons for never posting: for example, crippling imposter syndrome or being all-around uninspired but, rather a different and more unusual reason. I have been doing well. For the past hundred and two days, I have been reading,…

  • Uncertainty & Our Fig Trees

    Uncertainty seems to be a common theme in my life. Big or small, I am uncertain. Uncertain about tomorrow or next year or the year after that. Before reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar,  I was unable to articulate this feeling meaningfully. To make it digestible to myself and others without sounding pretentiously cryptic. I would have…

  • Writing the Past & Present

    Recently, I finished the novel A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. If I had to use one word to describe the book, I would say that it was honest; maybe too honest. A Little Life details the life of Jude St. Francis, an enigmatic character tainted by trauma. A Little Life left no room for the reader to make a metaphor…