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Preeti's avatar

लड़की बोझा होती है .. तू कलंख है (Girl children are a burden, you are a bad omen)..The decibels and voice of the village elder that recited this line to me for breakfast at the crack of dawn every time my eyes fluttered open and I met the day.. The voices still meander my Eustachian tubes and slap the undulating neural pathways of my mind-body complex. I was an unwanted little bundle of flesh and my little body was left in dumpsters , retrieved .. sold. Bought. Traded. I’d run away from “home” every chance I’d get. Running on railways tracks in search of the point of convergence .. perhaps that imaginary point on the zenith has the answers I seek.. Illnesses married me. Tuberculosis , bulimia, heart failure.. I thought, even maa Gaia finds me distasteful, so she leaves me on the surface at the mercy of gravity. I move through my life questioning the weight and burden of my existence.. I fight for every breath .. Because I want to say लड़कियाँ कलंख नहीं है (women are not bad omens ).. Perhaps somewhere down this life traipse I’ll meet the convergence point .. maybe self-love and liberation live there. I can only hope ......

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Becky Tupper's avatar

I love psychic stories. Thank you for sharing this with us. Is it possible that the two children he saw are your four legged babies? ❤️

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