“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
“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 Image
“Raisin in our only outlier for now: her mother is white, she lives in a white neighbourhood, she eats white food, she listens to white music and goes to a white school. In some ways, things will be easier for her, and in others, much harder, because you can belong even less when you come from two separate factions. We… — 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 Image
“Our story was delightful in its mundanity: we met, it worked, we're trying.” — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I’d have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you’re going to India to… — 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 girl who’s also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up to her and things get out of hand and before you know it, you’re being accused of something you’d never do. But men… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 the female experience that it doesn’t register as unusual. The danger of it, then, is in its routine, in how normalized it is for a woman to feel monitored, so much so that she might not… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
