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.
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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!