Sonders

The Role of Wealth in Gender Equality

What I learned when I visited women in a Rwandan village

Saying Goodbye 🌊

The lesson that helps me leave people, places, and things

What is a strong woman?

I found the answer in a Delhi slum

This post is dedicated to my parents, who amongst starting lives in a new country, taught me my root culture and the language of Hindi, without which it would have been nearly impossible to make my new…

Being Indian-American

And what that tiny af hyphen means

I’ve published mini-versions of this post for myself over several years, but every time I write anything with “Indian-American” in the title, I find that my feelings have changed dramatically 6 months later…

What is more human?

Thinking or Feeling

Last Saturday I did something very ordinary for a very long time. Something that 7 million years ago was not so ordinary and began distinguishing humans from animals, and thus thought from feeling. Something that made me tired as fuck.

Take That Spanish Class in School, Kids!

7 Lessons Spanish Taught Me in Europe

For 8 years in school, I dreaded Spanish class. Everyday you’d walk in and memorize genders for inanimate objects, calculate 2 forms of the same concept of “you,” and…

On Autonomy

and the 8-month journey to reach this damn stage

Have you ever moved to a new country for an extended period of time? If so, you’ve likely seen this graph. It’s the 5 Stages of Culture Shock framework that many expats experience when moving to a new…