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Shailla Chand's avatar

I really enjoyed this. Relatable in so many ways and so deeply rooted in women's experiences. Well done.

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Anjana's avatar

Thank you 🫶🏽

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Saima Durrani's avatar

Anjana, you’ve captured such a painful truth with clarity and strength. The quiet expectations placed on so many girls to be good, stay silent, and endure are deeply rooted, especially in Asian cultures. It’s heartbreaking how often silence is praised while pain is dismissed. Your words reflect a harsh reality and invite reflection and, hopefully, change. Thank you for giving voice to what so many have lived through but couldn’t say out loud.

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Christine's avatar

Yes there are certainly worse things to be called...

Resonant advice ❤️

Truths that will remain true at any age. I felt the palpable anger at how being nice can cost you something.

Utterly engaging piece😌

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Vimal Patel's avatar

Well. This well of niceness runs fowl among men too.

This fuckin line..

“And yet—inside you is a howl.

Not a whisper, a howl.

A scream born of centuries.”

I feel it. But, over the years. I have come to realise. I can't open fire on everything I disagree with. If life was a western. It teaches you, when to lock eyes, and when to let loose that chamber, and shoot.

How, do you deal with it?

Anjana..

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