Category: Uncategorized

Today, I come with more jilipis. The jilipi I want to cook today is the following thesis: the desire to be able to die is a feminist desire, and, as a consequence, the only kind of feminism worthy of having is one that, at some level, is able to reckon with the question, “You guys…

There’s an idiom in Bangla (my first language), which translates as something like, “to shit in a jilipi shape” (jilipi is the Bangla name of an Indian street sweet which is shaped like a flat spiral coil; imagine the rest.) It’s used as an exasperated description of an attempt to make something interesting or noteworthy…

The Joke A right-wing political commentator (R) and a left-wing political commentator (L) are having an argument: R: What do you mean the posture in which one sits while shitting has to do with politics???!! Obviously, there are some completely neutral things. L: Not really, I’ll prove it to you. Imagine a society where rich…

The Parable There is an island, with a very small population. They’re devout, go to church, mostly on Christmas and Easter. Sunday masses are meager, daily masses are even more so. Monsignor John Pruitt is beloved, now frail, in his eighties. Decades ago, he was in a relationship with Mildred, who was married then, and…

Freedom is perhaps the least freeing thing to think about. It makes a piece of swallowed stone out of all of us. I’m saying this in retrospect because there was a period in my life during which I had this very weird, but giddy, feeling about something, which I left unanalyzed for years. Then, only…