June 15, 2025 - Sweta Leena Panda

Lessons to My Daughter : Heartful Conversation

“My Wildflower Daughter: Lessons from Soil, Storm and Spine” One day, my daughter, you will walk into a room and feel everything shift, not because of hip sway or eyeliner alone, but simply from your energy walking ahead like a silent lioness. Before that day comes,

Your Aunt’s Favorite Question: When Will I ‘Settle’?

Every family gathering has its rituals. From plates clinking together to overly salty casseroles to that question being posed by an expert in your family, it can all become exhaustingly familiar after a while! The Dreaded Question, “When are you going to settle down?” Your mouth

The Unwifeable Diaries

She wasn’t one of society’s “wifeable” candidates – instead, she was labelled unwinnable because her passions ran too deep, unbridled, and wild for any traditional marriage model to contain them. Her emotions were an ecosystem, often fluctuating between stormy waves and quiet forests but always striving

Don’t Fuck for Free

The Garden That Refused to Wilt There was once a garden, lush and wild, where flowers didn’t always blossom as expected. Roses bore thorns; vines wrapped themselves around fences; the soil rich and dark nourished roots too deep for any person to uproot them; people would

A Woman’s Choice Between Obligation and Freedom

Raindrops splattered softly against the window, creating a gentle melody of nature’s unrest. Inside, a woman sat with a notebook in her lap, her fingers trembling over its blank pages. For years, people had told her her words were unnecessary, her thoughts too loud, and her

Dear My Career Ladder: Why Haven’t You Asked Me What I Enjoy Doing

“Our most invisible chains are those we cannot see–those society puts around our wrists with a smile and says are for our own good.” The Unasked Question Career Ladder was there when I fell, offering support when life seemed chaotic, while promising stability when life felt

Dear Destiny, Why Did You Choose Me?

I ask, Destiny: Why Did You Pick Me “The Whisper of the Unseen“ She stands on the shores of an ocean, toes buried in the sand, the wind bringing with it endless possibilities and rhythmic waves crashing onto shore like something whispering secrets only she can