Hello friends, This week's dispatch is in audio form! In the future, I'm hoping to provide transcription text for recordings. This week I talk about getting re-enchanted with my life as the moon renews over in ♊ Gemini. I explore my voice and creative expression and how
Hello friends, May 9 2025: The gibbous moon is aglow against my window as I sit down to write this. I have been catching up on the goings on in Kashmir and the recent escalation in the region between India and Pakistan. Last night, I was in a cab ride
In this post I share links to Dalit, Adivasi and caste-oppressed artists, movement organizations, activists and writers I've been following and reading in the last few years. If you are new to any of these people or organizations, please subscribe to, support and follow their work directly.
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
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
(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
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,
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
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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What I didn't expect when I got on the transition train
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'unprofessional' is a trap
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A workshop, a new site, and values
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I left my full time engineering manager job a month ago to build my practice, Kolam Coaching. I planned to take a 2 week break before diving in full time into being the boss of my own business. It has been a month, and I’ve been working on my
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A love poem for the tired and cramped soul
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An invitation