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Always up for hitting the roads, Swarnima finds meaning of life in travelling. A foodie at heart, she loves to dig deep into movies that are unconventional. She has much appreciation for solitude. Believer by day, overthinker by night...she is all set to make her own rules. Can't stand injustice of any sort, she lives to speak her mind. Saved by literature, she writes to understand herself and this world better. An ever evolving coffee drinking racoon who adores art in all its forms, she's quite the humorous girl who doesn't believe in categorizing herself. Current status: Ambivert.
And thus it begins again. Same old toxicity. Same old customs. Same old unacknowledged, unhappiness and stifled pain.
Amma, I wish you could have loved me a little less. Maybe then, you would've loved my mother more and I wouldn't be happy the day you died!
Somewhere between, vulnerability and therapy, We found love. The kind we had not read in books, seen in movies. But the kind that was ours.
Maa, you say that it is our destiny to serve, sacrifice, as a wife, a daughter in law, a caretaker, a servant, a slave - you must know that all - but please, a little more time?
India for long, has been in the 'developing' category. We could blame the economy and geopolitics but is it our own culture holding us back?
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