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  • Resonance of liberation
    A group of girls are scattered across the hallway always waiting for a person. Why were they waiting? They were longing to spill out the fears they had just inside their head. They were waiting for someone to listen and not just hear them.With all the attention and detail. They were waiting for decades. SomeContinue reading “Resonance of liberation”
  • The Silent Pandemic: Chapter 2
    Link to Chapter 1 https://sumedhanirvana.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/the-silent-pandemic/ Did I find an ear to hear ? “No, but I’ve found that just having an ‘ear’ isn’t enough. We all need an ear that is non-judgmental, practical, solution-oriented—to address our mental health issues—and fun and witty, to laugh at our problems.” “After many semi-failed and failed attempts to explainContinue reading “The Silent Pandemic: Chapter 2”
  • Politics of Love
    A quote that was given as essay by my mentor Kalyan sir struck my mind at this late hour (0113) . “ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate ; Only love can do that. – Martin Luther King I had written a ten page long essayContinue reading “Politics of Love”
  • Women and war
         What reminds you of war ? Guns, weapons, ammunition, fallen bullets, bloody grounds, dead bodies fallen in a disorderly fashion, courage of the strong, defeat and a failed victory. But I as a women who experiences intersectional burden see war from the lens of gender.It is said that truth is the first victim inContinue reading “Women and war”
  • Chenchu Tribes: On path of development or decline?
    As I woke up from my nap , hundreds of goats were grazing on the arid grasses while the bus in which I was travelling at a speed of over 100 kmph on the National Highway No 765 which is from Hyderabad to Srisailam. . Before I could find out where I was headed, myContinue reading “Chenchu Tribes: On path of development or decline?”
  • The Silent Pandemic
    Ain’t a giant cancer to get world recognition. Ain’t no ant bite that one can ignore.Just everyone is struck with their own worms that eats us from inside. Quite Literally, Everybody. These worms are invisible.Dark. Unacceptable. Difficult to find even under the finest microscope. These worms have no name. They have no existence too. Yet,Continue reading “The Silent Pandemic”
  • Quthbullapur: Stories from the slums
    On 13th of November 2022, friends Anil, Sudhakar and I started our 15 km short journey towards Quthbullapur Municipality Office located in Chintal. Unfortunately, it was closed as it was Sunday. We then headed towards Vajpayee Nagar which was named so because under his regime, the people were given land pattas to the slum dwellers.Continue reading “Quthbullapur: Stories from the slums”
  • On Cloud Ten
  • No Homeland to Dreamland
    Gandhiji, I have no homeland… How can I call this land my own homeland and this religion my own, wherein we are treated worse than cats and dogs, wherein we cannot get water to drink?” – Dr B R Ambedkar to Mahatma Gandhi (in conversation, Mani Bhavan, Bombay: 14 August 1931) Imagine, We have aContinue reading “No Homeland to Dreamland”
  • EI not AI
    Its not a human but a robot.Odisha’s first private news channel OTV has launched its first Artificial Intelligence news anchor Lisa.It’s a milestone in new technological journalism. It struck me that it was a robot not a human. But the technocratic oligarchs who in majority are male, white, and casteist necessarily try to ‘Sanskritise technology’Continue reading “EI not AI”