What is life? Small things like these by Claire Keegan

I read discovered bell hooks and her writing a few years ago and this book felt like her words spoke to me in the most honest and intimate way about what love means, how we express love, how the meaning of love has evolved and how we as modern society have evolved with that <3

Life is really lived in the ordinary and mundane. You know those moments when you are alone, listening to a song, and you don’t even realize when you start singing and humming along to it ;) Kal Ho Na Ho is one of those songs for me ❤️

Or orrr maybe, completely outrageous i know, but hear me out? Discourage and put a STOP to this patriarchal practice all together?

A word to all the good folks promoting participatory democracy who work in the Global North (and many in Global South as well). 🧵Democracy is not, I repeat NOT, a Western invention which allows you to come to this in some quasi-Huntingtonian framework where you are going to

We live in such a hyper productive output oriented work culture that even when people are on one/two day leaves the motivation to take that time off is to catch up with work without having to be in meetings that take time away from work.

In Delhi for a hot minute and thinking about what the city means to me. open.substack.com/pub/sakshihall…

rewatched Rocky aur Raani ki Prem Kahani in the flight and Ranveer Singh is an absolute star with life advice delivered in one liners like this one "Inna meetha vi na bano ki koi kha hi jaye"

You would understand if, in this moment of great emotion, Gukesh D did not reset the pieces after the game. But how you do the small things is how you do the big things. That's where greatness comes from.

Reflections on why female friendships are one of the best things in the world <3 this is dedicted to all my wonderful girlfriends out there, ily open.substack.com/pub/sakshihall…