I know some people are not pleased about me writing my truth. Some are close to my family, or knew my father, or knew one version of him, and I …
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Personal Crisis
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2011 “She’s inhumane. How can a mother leave her children?” As I hear the words, I know this is it. This is the moment. All eyes are on me now. …
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If you haven’t read it already, Part 2 is available here “They said I was acting mad in the street with no shoes on … Someone called the …
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If you haven’t read it already, Part 1 is available here In the weeks before I could arrive in Nairobi, as X’s parents were absolutely desperate to help …
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“There’s always a gun to my head. You don’t understand … The pressure … If I say or do the wrong thing, they will come at me. I can’t say …
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Chalkhill Estate. It was one of those ‘phantom’ council estates I’d heard about but never seen. It was always in the news for robberies, violent gang crime and drug scandals. …
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Before the incident with Maya at Jai’s school, I saw the children regularly, a few times a week and on the weekends. After the humiliation I faced at the school, …
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Before we continue, I wanted to pause here and say a couple of things: I am loath to write negative things about people. This series is not written with the …
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It’s funny what the mind does when it’s trying to avoid pain and trauma. And when I say funny, I mean funny-funny, not funny-ha-ha. Today, I meditated, bathed, washed …
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December 2001 We’re in India with my in-laws and a big group of relatives and friends. We’ve come to visit some Jain temples and see the facilities funded by …
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I’m often asked what happened in my marriage, why it ended. The truth is, there is no single answer, no one isolated incident, as I’m sure is the case for …
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Sometime after that awful evening, Maanav was away in Germany on a business trip. I was at home with the new baby when the phone rang. It was the fraud …