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  • Growing Up Where Feelings Were Optional

    By the time I reached the 10th standard, the exam had already grown a personality.It wasn’t just an exam. It was a bhayanak rakshas—a monster that decided your worth, your future, and apparently your right to exist with dignity. We were trained for this fear early. I first heard about it in the 4th standard.

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  • Failure Came Early. I Just Didn’t Know Its Name Yet.

    Dearest Aaji,I bow to your feet with love. I found myself thinking of you again today. I wanted to tell you that I’ve bought a special stone called Black Agate. It will reach me in seven days. I asked them to engrave your name—।। वत्सला ।।—on it. I never gave you a gift when you

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  • I Was an Anxious Child, But No One Called It That

    I was in the 4th standard.Back then, we didn’t use notebooks. We wrote on black slates, carried chalks, and learned arithmetic along with fear. A few boys in my class decided I was useful in a very specific way. They told me to bring extra chalks for them. The first day, I ignored it. The

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  • A Cheap Bar, an Old Waiter, and the Day My Pain Took a Back Seat

    TL;DR: Sometimes the cure for a panic attack isn’t a breathing exercise; it’s looking someone else in the eye and realizing you aren’t the only one fighting a battle. There was a time when everything in my life felt unstable at once.Money problems. A troubled marriage. Constant worry about my parents’ health. One day, it

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