The Inheritance of Illnesses
“When sickness becomes a permanent member of your house, it is better to give it a bed to sleep on.” Manjiri Indurkar looks at the darker side of ageing in one New Delhi family.
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Saviour Complex
“It is the second time I have saved him from killing himself.” Noah Klein tells the painful personal story of sharing a parent’s struggle.
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Unconditional Surrender: April 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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On Monsters
“This made me reassess everything that I thought I had known about him, and to an extent what I thought I had known about myself.” Deonte Osayande looks at what happens when a childhood friend becomes a murderer.
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Ruins and Shelters
“All of us lived in fear of the eminent bombing from America for a number of years, but exploring bomb shelters still became our favourite pastime.” Nellie Barg remembers her childhood in post-WWII Kiev.
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Phatty Girl
“In Trinidad, women want bigger breasts, bigger butts and stomachs that ripple with the slightest movement.” LaTroya Lovell comes to terms with her desire to be fat.
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The Naïve Groom
“I was envious of this open and free culture, this nonchalant attitude toward the body and sex. I wished I was not born and raised in such a straight-laced society.” Rudy Ravindra remembers his escape from an arranged marriage in India and his first love in the United States.
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Knitting a Sweater
“A fortnight was too much for me. I was not interested in the patterns so much as of the selection of buttons. They were my jewels.” Sharmila Ray remembers the art of knitting while shopping for a jumper in Calcutta.
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