“People allow India to exist only in two versions: In the first, everything is too beautiful to be encapsulated, women are swarthy and hippy, shoeless boys play soccer in dirt roads, elephants roam the streets, and temples are merely there… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“I have never been this white anywhere in the world. I've never had the most obvious, most useful kind of privilege as soon as I've walked into a room. This, though, is maybe what it's like to be white. People… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“Plenty of people take a gap year between high school and university to travel, or spend a summer back-packing through Europe to “find” themselves.… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Raisin in our only outlier for now: her mother is white, she lives in a white neighbourhood, she eats white food, she listens to… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“The great irony of growing up is that it’s often once you leave your parents’ home that you understand them the most. You get… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Our story was delightful in its mundanity: we met, it worked, we're trying.” — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run into a… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“And yet, being surveilled with the intention of assault or rape is practically mundane, it happens so often. It’s such an ingrained part of… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Brown people rarely explain how anyone is related to anyone. You’re simply told that these people are your family and to treat them as… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're racist or… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Fear always reaches a breaking point and turns into anxiety or rage, and I don't have enough storage space for more fear in my… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“But most unsettling is how this time I notice my own fairness. I notice that while I might be a person of colour among… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
“Mom used to tell me that white people don't understand us, would never understand us, even when they are well-meaning and patient...I thought she… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share
