I have a Dream

I am sometimes told that the story starts a long time ago, on the banks of the Ganga, when the sultry summer sun bore down acutely on the curling tips of drying leaves and when the still silence on earth was interrupted only occasionally by flies buzzing lazily around dried cow dung, when ‘the great [...]

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Kindergarten lessons

Our moms were right about what they taught us in kindergarten: don’t show a bully you’re scared. That’s exactly what he wants to see. It was hard to follow, and we all got bullied. But that’s a message for life, a message for dealing with patriarchy.

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