Ochre Sky Stories

When our stories demand to be told, we must obey.

Author, film-maker, teacher. Late-diagnosed gifted child. Writing is my self-care. Kindness heals. My Books: My Daughters' Mum | Immortal For A Moment | Reconciliation: Karwanemohabbat's Journey Through A Wounded India | When The Mask Came Off

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

My memory book and may be a few more things: anything that interests me as I look - back and forth - to make sense of the privilege called life. One day at a time.

I write from my experience as a neurodivergent Indian Muslim woman based in the GCC. Bylines: The New York Times, Business Insider, Newsweek, Beautiful Things, The Wire, Ochre Sky Stories, FemAsia, Five Minute Lit, Usawa Literary Review etc.

Wearer of a lot of hats. I experiment with writing here and discuss my life experiments while I do that. You will find poetry here more often than you’d expect.

Writing to make sense of inner + outer world. Became a morning person against my will, thanks to my cats. Perpetually trying to figure out birds from their songs.

Here to tell some stories, feel feelings, find funnies (and not force alliterations).

Lawyer. Writer. He/him. Autistic. Poly+Nesting Partner.

I am a writer, clinical hypnotherapist and grief educator. A shape-shifting phoenix.

I write personal essays that include history, culture, travel, food and occasionally politics. I am interested in how our past informs our present and try to keep an eye out for it during my travels.

Perhaps person | Still thinking… | Let me take my time. (Not an award-winning journalist, now also in Communications.)

'In a room the size of loneliness, my heart's the size of love' - Forugh Farrokhzad

What's the point, anyway?

We all are in the same boat, that's dangerously rocking, Quick! Tell me your story and I will tell you mine!

Writer

I live in goa & sometimes mumbai. I also run, cycle & trek. I work with individuals with a growth mindset who want to tackle personal transitions. I am learning to live with a new assumption-not having a crystal clear objective is life enhanci

I work with social entrepreneurs, and rural women entrepreneurs through the day and night, and write to remember myself, in my free time.

Mukta is a Gurgaon-based researcher who investigates urban informality, housing and migration. She makes meaning of her multi-faceted life through her writing practice, which she holds dear to her heart.

Tapping into the healing power of writing, procrastinator in chief but eager to shed the tag! Looking at life from both, near and far, simple and complex.

My pronouns are Reader/Writer

Creating space for slowing down and feeling. Neurodivergent, queer and full of rage.

Loves telling stories where nothing happens

A doctor who struggles to explain herself; enjoys medicine and doctoring vicariously and heals herself with prose and poetry. This is a place to calm my feverish brain with my own words and all of yours too.

Aspiring writer

Fiction writer. Occasional essayist. Occasional reviewer. Founder Editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine (https://bombaylitmag.com/)

I want to be a writer by day, by night and by every moment of my life! A journalist in the past, I have now zeroed down on the fact that writing for ‘nirmal anand’ (pure joy) is my true (and only) calling.

Word by word, I delve in culture and the society we live in. -Reimagining. [She/Her]bye lines-Readers Digest, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Outlook, Kitaab international and more

Apologetic Economist. Fuelled by caffeine and a dark sense of humour. This is now an attempt to write monthly.

I write to make sense of myself and the world around me. I read to isolate from the chaos of the world that we live in today. Finding the way back home to myself\ud83c\udf38\ud83c\udf3b

Looking for words to read and write.

Writer, feeler, thinker, doer, logic-er, making sense of the world-er. Sometimes I think of myself as a fun person[?!]. often allergic to small talk.

Alaknanda Sengupta is a homebody living in Mumbai, India. She likes pottering around the house and thinking her thoughts. She writes Around the House on Substack.

I write about slow travel, personal essays, health and cultural discoveries. Nothing extraordinary, but mostly unique.

Pathways to healing and empowerment

Writer, poet, columnist. Author of ‘Intimate City’ and ‘Mannequin: Working Women in India's Glamour Industry’. Parent, doodler, notebook-keeper.

A visual storyteller expanding her forms of expression through writing. [email protected]

Writing to make sense of things

Learnings from experiments and experiences of change in systems and self

Looking closely at the ordinary. Words · books · birds · memories · doodles

I write to listen to my voice, to pay attention to the everyday, to make room for the stories that live inside me.

Author: Everything I couldn't tell my mother - Psychologist - Mother

I like to spend my time with poetry, prose, plants, and psychiatry. Lately I have been mostly mothering.

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President - Partners in Micro-development: a volunteer based non-profit working to improve the learning and teaching of English literacy in Sri Lankan primary grades.

21, girl, poet, writer, artist heart. lover, fighter, crier. student of psychology and writing. @naynawrites on instagram

A journalist, communication professional I never learnt to talk about myself. I am using this space to unburden myself and let the crazies out! Beware!

Filmmaker. Making friends with my inner critic through writing, humour, food and movies.

Anuradha is engaged in rural development and craft-based livelihoods. She is passionate about handmade and Nature. She is a recipient of Chevening and Fulbright fellowships. She lives in Bangalore with her husband Dilip and cat Momila.

I’m a yapper when I feel.