Kadir - kolam creative collective

Red bougainvillea flowers hanging down against a shady backdrop of trees and leaves

naming my caste privilege

Hello friends, Happy Dalit History Month, and advanced Bhim Jayanti! (Babasaheb Ambedkar's birthday is on April 13) I'm caste-privileged, and I wanted to write to you this week some snippets from my own story of actively interrogating my own and my ancestors' role in the

Three bioluminescent moon jellyfish, two small on bottom left lit up in blue and pink, one large on the right top lit up in blue, pink, green and orange

Grumpy fish, breakups and naps

Hello friends, This week, I welcome folks who were subscribed to my now archived creative writing newsletter on substack that I started years ago and published very little in. Thank you for sticking with me, and welcome 🌈 A week ago I went to the aquarium in Toronto for the first

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"something for which electronics has no language"

(citation: title phrase borrowed from Murray Bookchin's Utopia not futurism lecture, 1978) Hello friends, How are you this eclipse week? I am wrapping up a Creative writing through reading class I've been taking, and preparing for a short workshop I'm offering on Neurodiversity at

Blue and yellow fractals that start at the center and span out

Quiet power, Small power

Hello friends, Turns out we share a love of the TV show Scandal, more than one of you reached out to me to tell me you loved it too! I remember watching it for the first time, in February 2014 when I had first arrived in Turtle Island from Chennai,

Long shadow of person cast over sands along a coastline with a cruiseship lit in the distance under a full moon sky

An other sky

I went on vacation to Málaga with my partner for ten days earlier this month. On moonlit nights, I walked along the beach shores. I listened to the Mediterranean foam and gush, entranced. I miss the sounds of the ocean when I'm in my lake-surrounded-city-dwelling. The beaches were

Dense green trees viewed upside down through reflection in Grenadier pond, high park, tkaronto

Substack to Ghost

and hello, it's been too long! Hello friends, Happy Lunar new year! (It was on Jan 29 2025). Let us welcome the year of Yin Wood Snake (citation: Daria, Red Rabbit Astrology, Yin Wood Snake forecast). How are you? I’ve been grateful for the news of the

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How we show up for a Free Palestine

When we are privileged

Photo of blue green water overlooking whiteish beige Scarborough bluff hills, greenery and clear blue sky

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Gender free-fall

What I didn't expect when I got on the transition train

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My business is changing

And you are invited

Woman with white hijab wiping tears of their face, setting behind a desk with papers and pens on it, brick wall behind

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Crying at work

'unprofessional' is a trap

Brown twine runs across beige wall and 7 leaves hang from it, colored from green to yellow to red

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Leading amidst chaos

There are so many things about the current tech layoff trend that frustrate me: The fact that it is a trend. That it is all based on claims about future market uncertainty without any information about how firing employees in mass actually helps. That CEOs are praised for admitting the

Lit fire in a dark winter forest with tall trees, fire glows orange-red in a stone hearth on the ground, sparks fly

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New beginnings

People skills for tech leaders