In a country where accessibility for people with disabilities is next to zero, and in a fast-paced job that demands mobility, it can definitely...
The field notes of a woman journalist who happens to live with disability
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‘Fake it till you make it’: Surviving the terrifying loneliness of being a young person with an amputation
I couldn't let the people around me know of the emotional trauma I was going through, as I was afraid that I would attract more pity than I was...
Even as I fought for others to accept my body with disability, I had to learn to love it myself
The bodies being celebrated in pop culture, or in conversations around me were unlike my body.
Living as a bisexual person with an incurable itch
I was surrounded by opinions - both medical and personal - about my condition but I was in a very lonely place. Nobody understood, nobody tried...
Review: Shreevatsa Nevatia’s ‘How to Travel Light’
If there is a central theme to this book, it is how misunderstood and isolating the individual's mental health experience can be in a society...
For years, I thought my mental illness was a personal failing
Having spent more than a decade just fighting against my mind to keep myself afloat, my diagnosis was, in one word, a relief. I realised that...
As a blind woman, I belong to a community of friendship, love and care
The best part of being in the community is you don’t have to explain why you are you. You don’t have to be apologetic about being lost on the...
What to expect when you’re expecting (and happen to live with mental health issues)
I never quite understood what my friends thought about my mental health issues until I got pregnant. While they knew that I was an activist...
Behind Aditi’s Corner is a young woman in control of her own narrative
It is not Down Syndrome that Aditi had to overcome, but the way our society frames, treats and fails to accommodate for people who live with...