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Stories that demand to be told | #27
I feel ravaged, humiliated, kidnapped by the cold. If I have a tendency to indulge in self-pity, it’s 10x during those bleak days when the sun…
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Sucheta
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Deepika Khatri
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Just B - The Library is Open
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Ochre Sky Stories
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farzana
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Ridhima
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Ruhani Kaur
Ochre Sky Writing Circles: A joyful, compassionate community of writers who read, write and celebrate each other
Create and sustain a writerly life with like-hearted people
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Stories that demand to be told | #26
"I am learning to live with grief… not scream in terror and run away by burying my head under the pillows. It is a work in progress."
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Reema Ahmad
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Binu Sivan
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Fiona Vaz
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Roshni
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Deepika Khatri
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Naina Raturi
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Stories that demand to be told | #25
"We must summon the resources to console, reassure and to move towards respair. We need to protect our loves so that love can protect us."
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Safa
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Smriti Iyer
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Ajay Kelkar
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Doel
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Nainy Sahani

November 2024

Writing Memoir: the transformative power of personal writing
The courage, audacity and grace of telling the story of you. Join the Ochre Sky Memoir workshop with Natasha Badhwar and Raju Tai
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Stories that demand to be told | #24
"I missed my children. I wanted to know the man I had married. I wanted to be with myself. It was time to remove the scaffolding of my job and…
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Karthik
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Maanav
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Savvy Soumya
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Suhani
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Namit H
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Shreya Sridhar
Stories that demand to be told | #23
"The massage was also not as weird as I thought it would be. It turned out that I could experience bare-body touching outside intimacy."
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Parool
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Alaknanda Sengupta
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Ayush
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Sanket
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Mindfully Me
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Indu
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Stories that demand to be told | #22 - FemAsia Special
Spectacular essays by Ochre Sky writers published in the FemAsia Magazine's October 2024 issue
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Beatrice
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Kanchan Balani
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Sanobar Sabah
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Khyati Parekh
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Samira
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Sucheta
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Savvy Soumya
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Ronita Chattopadhyay
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Stories that demand to be told | #21
"When in doubt about how to proceed, my intuitive strategy is to first decide what I will wear. Look good, feel good, and all the rest of the decisions…
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Deepika Singh
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Tanuj Solanki
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Sanobar Sabah
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Gargi Sen
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Nandita de Souza
, and 
Shelja Sen

October 2024

Stories that demand to be told | #20
"If power corrupts, as we know it does, then the lack of power also offers us the gift of softness. And strength. We learn to compensate by tapping into…
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Deepika Khatri
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Sumira Khan
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Farah
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Maanav
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Smriti Iyer
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farzana
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Sucheta
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Nidhi Arora
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Priyanka Bhadani
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Khyati Parekh
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Stories that demand to be told | #19
"I took a few deep breaths before calling his number. It was a rare moment of openness and vulnerability that we men were not used to."
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Ochre Sky Stories
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Karthik
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Ajay Kelkar
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Noirtanki
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Samira
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Uthara
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Rituparna Ghosh
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Ila Reddy
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Harry
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Parool
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farzana
Discover the Creative Magic of Urdu at our Urdu se Dosti workshop with Vimal Chitra
Poetry, Comedy, Guftagu, Joy - A weekend spent with new words, new friends, and deep, unexpressed feelings finding expression.
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Vimal Chitra
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Natasha Badhwar
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Raju Tai
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Ochre Sky Stories
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