Why I Write in Three Languages
Hindi carries the feeling. Urdu carries the ache. English carries the argument. Each one lets me say something the others structurally cannot.

Hindi carries the feeling. Urdu carries the ache. English carries the argument. Each one lets me say something the others structurally cannot.
Related arguments that started somewhere else.
One is an argument about why anything exists at all. The other is a personality with opinions about your clothes. We use the same word for both, and that confusion does most of the damage.
Nobody wakes up choosing cruelty. It arrives in small permissions, each one reasonable on its own — and the psychology behind that is more disturbing than any villain.
People say caste is finished while arranging their children’s marriages by it. A psychological reading of why a system can die officially and survive completely.