Make America Great Again.
Hunger has never been about scarcity.
It’s about the quiet decisions made in rooms we’ll never see.
I sat in the silence—
and it sat in me.
Split Reality
That split-screen reality. The tenderness and the terror, layered like sediment.
Your child is learning to walk while someone else’s child is learning to duck.
You’re washing rice in your kitchen
while a scientist who helped build death machines is given a medal across the ocean.
And yet, the mind does this thing— It builds walls around what it can hold.
It says: “Yes, the world is burning. But this mango is sweet.”She was never just one thing.
We’ve been taught to praise women for how they look. But what about what they built? What they birthed? What they broke through to survive? This piece honors the inventors—women whose brilliance reshaped the world, even when history tried to forget them.
What we leave behind.
Some people don’t just exist—they disrupt. Not through chaos, but through the radical act of being whole in a fractured world. This piece is a tribute, a roadmap, and a love letter to those who dare to live in full bloom—even as the petals fall.
Colonialism 2.0: The Empire Never Ended Part IV
They called them “new arrivals.” What they meant was: newly claimed bodies. Lined up in silence.
Measured. Examined. Not for their health—but for their usefulness.
This was not medicine. It was inventory. And this is what history tried to reduce to paperwork—but we remember.
We are trying to remember everything.“Just Come Here Legally” and Other Bullshit From the Comfort of a Privileged Existence
“Before you say ‘just come here legally,’ ask yourself when the laws were written—and who they were written for.”
The Alchemy of Curiosity:
Tell your story. It is important.
When Laughter Was Loud
A love letter to the summers that shaped us.
This one smells like curry, bleach, and chutney music. And it sounds like my father laughing from the belly. This one remembers the way it used to be.
By – naliniColonialism 2.0 Part III
“Behind every bar of sweetness, there’s a story waiting to be told.
May we choose to listen.”Colonialism 2.0 Part II
“They said the empire ended—but it simply learned how to smile while stealing.”
The evolution of colonial control beneath a banner of progress.
