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Uncanny among Canny

       People hardly know me as a rebel. For them, I am the same girl who sits in the corner without spelling a single word.  When you are too tiny among so many people they hardly realize your presence. They can take you like a tiny object which has nothing to do with the world around them. I am one of them. Smallest in the group from school to university.  They identify me as a brown tiny girl in their group.             When you always feel like an outsider it makes you a different person. I am one of those. Who hardly have a feeling of being an insider. And always considered myself idiosyncratic and weird. When I go back to my formative years I remember being an odd among my own extended family.  I was not pretty and fair like my siblings.  It is not easy to grow up as a darker girl in a traditional  Nepali society. It is harder when you enter your teenage. That is the time when everyone feels a lack of belonging.   When you are continuously judged by your skin color and body typ