Hey there, It is wild how quickly human beings get used to things. Two months ago we were wondering if the world was at the brink of a third world war. Today, we are barely concerned about the conflict in West Asia as it drags on. The 'new normal&
Hey you, Thank you for your kind messages after my last email. It meant a lot. I am going to keep this week's issue short as well but I wanted to showup nonetheless because it has been an important week in India. I also got questions around where
Hi all, As you may have noticed, there was no Sunday issue this week. I am sorry that I was unable to send you a notice about it. We suffered a loss in our family and had to take some time off. Regular service will resume from next Sunday. Thank
Hello hello! For some reason this week felt quieter than the past few even though it has not been quiet. The Iran-U.S. talk is falling apart, the Prime Minister of India misused our public broadcaster to shit talk to the opposition for an hour during election season, and you
Hey you, Happy New Year! This week marked the new year for many regions and cultures across the country, from Punjab to Assam, from Bengal to Kerala, each celebration unique and equally tasty. :D As a Bengali, I wish you a Shubho Nobo Borsho. But also Happy Ugadi, Gudi Padwa,
Hey there, Glad to be able to write to you again this week. Almost thought this will all be made redundant when Trump threatended that "entire civilisation" would die last Tuesday. So far, we are all standing. 🤞 I had the immense pleasure of talking to one of you
Heyo, How are you holding up? I am doing fine, thank you for asking. It's Easter weekend so happy Easter! As my Easter Bunny, will you kindly hit reply to this email and answer the following questions: 🐣 What do you find most valuable about DoorDesi? 🐣 What is missing?
Hello there! I have been thinking about what it means to stay informed when the information itself feels like too much. There is a version of keeping up with the news that just leaves you exhausted and vaguely hopeless. I do not want this newsletter to be that. What I
Heya! Another week, another few hundred bombs. But hey, I am not going to bore you with that... yet. I made an observation this week. I mean in last week's issue I was already referring to the ongoing conflict as the West Asia conflict because that is what
Hey there, The war in West Asia is raging on. Egos have been hurt and now nobody is willing to back down. Meanwhile, people are unable to fly home to meet their parents or fly back to their other homes to continue with the rest of their lives. People like
Hey you, I kept procrastinating writing this week's issue. It is now Saturday evening and usually I have the weekly issue written and scheduled to send by Saturday morning. But I just couldn't this week. I started and deleted three drafts. I just could not put
Hey there, Since I started writing this on Friday morning, the world has changed has quite a bit. Pakistan and Afghanistan are bombing each other. The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran. Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP MPs who were jailed around the last Delhi elections have
Dear DoorDesi, I am writing this a few days too early so it is possible that something happened Saturday and you are wondering why I say nothing about it. I am taking the weekend off so I can rest and replenish (and finally break my Dry January resolution in February.
Hey you, We are 130 people strong now! A big shoutout to our latest DoorDesis! Hello, welcome, and I hope you like it here. 😄 So who else has not stopped listening to Bad Bunny this week? Yes, I am hella impressionable and although some of his songs were already a
and a big reveal!🌱 Notice anything different? Maybe the look and feel of this issue is a little different? That's because we have newsss! 🥁 DoorDesi has now gone from being a passion project to becoming a part of my actual job. Hi, I am Sudeshna and I have
Hello DoorDesi, This week felt like one long exercise in contradiction. India signs the “mother of all deals” with the EU while the rupee continues its slow, anxious slide. The Supreme Court stalls protections against caste-based discrimination, then turns around and delivers a genuinely progressive ruling on menstrual health. It
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Hello DoorDesi, I try not to think about ageing. Both mine and my parents’. I avoid it, postpone it, tell myself there is time. And yet it keeps showing up. In longer pauses on the phone. In medical appointments mentioned casually, almost as an afterthought. This is wholly new for
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Turns out they are both unaffordable.
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and the newscycle is out of control
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and I am so sorry!
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Breathe in. Breathe out.
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Hello DoorDesi, A funny thing happened to me this week. I discovered I might officially be an expat - not in my passport, but in my anxiety patterns. For the first 5 years of living in the Netherlands, flying to the Netherlands was the thing that triggered my anxiety. Flying
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and a tiny state with a big heart!
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Headlines that made me want to lie down on the floor