Tiya Thomas-Alexander | February 24, 2021
It is the beginning of 2021 and I am writing this during the third national lockdown in England. Writing narratives from the middle of things can be risky because there...
Continue ReadingSheena Gershom | February 18, 2021
2020 really did a number on us, didn’t it?! Anybody else tired of hearing the words 'new normal' and 'unprecedented times'? The turn of the new year, 2021, brought with...
Continue ReadingShobana Vetrivel | October 20, 2020
One of the ways I know I am experiencing stress and anxiety is through my dreams. I dream almost every night, and in my dreams, all the realities of the...
Continue ReadingRuth Davidar Paul | August 24, 2020
Locked down, house-full, no privacy, no peace or quiet. This would have to be my non-comfort zone on steroids! Being an introvert—someone who needs solitude and silence as desperately as...
Continue ReadingDeepa David | August 11, 2020
When the lockdown began in India, I was in warrior mode. I said to myself, 'Let’s do this! You’ve got this. Just three weeks and this will all blow over....
Continue ReadingK | May 20, 2020
I have now been at home on my own for more than six weeks. Six weeks of not being with friends, of not touching another human being, no hugs, no...
Continue ReadingSylvia Castelino Derby | May 13, 2020
On a usual weekday in July 2009, I sat in on a team meeting discussing an investment banking product and wondered why I was there and how I was making...
Continue ReadingSusan Narjala | May 8, 2020
You know that little curvy arrow on your browser menu that refreshes your webpage? It’s a button I’m intimately familiar with. Every time I post an article on my website...
Continue ReadingEmily Lewis | May 1, 2020
In January, when the other IndiAanya editors and I began to dream about writing themes for 2020, we had no idea that within months we would find ourselves locked in...
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