Joya Dass is the CEO of LadyDrinks, a networking platform for South Asian women executives and entrepreneurs, and a well known TV personality. But much more than that, she is a woman who has risen stronger from a childhood spent in the shadow of domestic abuse. As she finishes her memoir, she took time out…
Author: Anu Mahadev
I am simply, a writer at heart.
TWI Candid: A Long, Unpleasant Wait
Vani Vinay becomes the voice for a family member who went through trauma of child abuse. In the piece, Vani paraphrases her relative who wonders if she will ever find closure. I often wonder, what it’s like to live a life without having to regret the choices I did not make. Or, without having to…
TWI Empowerment: Closure
A counseling perspective on Closure by Bhavana Nissima. Closure is a term that has found resonance with several people to describe the feeling of something left incomplete in their experience of Other. Like: I want to hear his side of the story I want him/her to know I suffered S/he has to apologize I want…
TWI Poetry: On Closure
Lullaby, a Haibun by Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla Some days are all about the womb and its emptiness which gnaws her entire being. Those days she sits crouched in the corner of her bathroom, trying to pick up the broken pieces and pacify her wild mind from becoming a beast. White orchids are used to grace…
TWI Fiction: The Missive
Jagruti was gone and yet not for Alok. A short story by Priya N Iyer The monsoons were almost over and it was getting warm again. This monsoon was one that Alok would never forget. Not that he had noticed the rains much. Only that they were a nuisance. The traffic was terrible during the commute from…
TWI Fiction: The Invitation
Closure. Or not? A short story by Supreet Bains Sharma “…… and now I don’t know what to do,” admitted Aisha to her husband, Sunil. She was explaining to Sunil her dilemma over sending out invite to Rakhi and her husband, who had just moved into the same building they lived in, to their annual…
TWI Opinion: On Transgender Rights
Transgender Rights in the wake of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019. Sonali Pokhriyal takes a look. The hastily passed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha has been met with a strong backlash from the queer community and the allies across the country. To facilitate an understanding for the…
TWI Events: A Connect+Create Fall Poetry Salon
A beautiful fall evening and a gathering of poets. Anu Mahadev writes about the poetry salon by Connect+Create that TWI partnered with. Oct 13, 2019. A crisp autumn evening in the southern New Jersey suburb of West Windsor was the setting for a one-of-a-kind poetry salon organized by Connect+Create a creative workshop and networking venture…
For Fall Poetry Event: Snow Postcards
Four poems for the Poetry Salon by Pooja Garg Snow postcards It is difficult to tell you of snow on the phone Where I sit in the window, it is hard – The fall, The falls – I think the moon perches on that twig for a reason comparing whiteness, comparing notes and that…
For Fall Poetry Event: But Radha Wants More
Three poems for the Poetry Salon by Ashini Desai But Radha Wants More He is the boy everyone wants. But SHE is the girl he dances with. The girls circling her tell her straight, they wish they had her fate. Of a thousand to be the one! Does she not know that she has won?…
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