Author

Beena Lad

4 pieces

POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
When The Smoke Clears
Featured Image: The New York Times Where will you be, when the smoke clears, and the protests die off, when your social…
BEENA LAD
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Weed
I. I’m a weed trying to be a flower. An envious shadow surrounded by loveliness. How I wish to be, to be…
BEENA LAD
CULTURE
Reconciliation: Queer, Agnostic, and Indian
These thoughts have always been tumbling through my brain perilously. I have vague memories of those first moments, when some alien crevice…
BEENA LAD
LIFE
Breaking The Silence
When I first saw you experience anxiety and depression, you could not name it. Maybe you thought if you didn’t talk about…
BEENA LAD

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