homesickness
Why Festival Season Makes Missing Home Hit Harder
The rest of the year, living away from home is just your normal life. Then festival season arrives, and the distance reasserts itself all at once.
homesickness
The rest of the year, living away from home is just your normal life. Then festival season arrives, and the distance reasserts itself all at once.
chennai
Chennai has a specific kind of warmth, close-knit neighborhoods, strong community. If you're not from here, that warmth can highlight your outsider status.
delhi
Everyone talks about Delhi's energy. What they don't mention is how easy it is to feel completely still and alone inside all that motion.
relocation
Day one, you were nervous about finding the office. Day ninety, you're professionally settled and completely friendless in the city you now call home.
mumbai
Everyone told you about the commute and the rent. Nobody told you about the specific loneliness of a city moving too fast to ever stop and include you.
bangalore
You moved to Bangalore for the job. The job is fine. But your evenings are empty, your weekends are Netflix, and your room feels smaller every week. Urban loneliness in a city of 13 million.