Author: Manika Rastogi

LOCATION

I often wonder how many invisible pins are dropped on the map of my life. Tiny red markers that appear whenever I step outside the house. Some blink quietly on someone else’s screen, silently telling them where I am. Technology calls it convenience. Safety, they say. But I call it […]

ARE YOU NICE OR TOO NICE?

Are you a NICE person, or are you TOO NICE? The kind of person who lets others walk all over you and take you for granted? For a long time, I was the person with zero boundaries, enduring the “sweetest torture” of putting everyone on a pedestal while I lived […]

NO ONE LIKES A MAD WOMAN

“No one likes a mad woman – you made her like that” The above statement is extracted from the lyric of the song ‘Mad Woman’ written by Taylor Swift. By saying “You made her like that,” Swift is pointing the finger back at the system. She is saying: My ‘messiness’ […]