India, March 25 -- 22 is the age when a lot of us start feeling the pressure to have everything together. Be it on social media or by looking at people around us, the pressure is immense.

Three months into the year, I realized that I was simply not flourishing at the age of 22 (at the cusp of 23)

If the constant crying, heavy breathing, knot in the stomach, weight on the chest and numbness of spirit is any indicator, we are, quite frankly, currently lower than the standards for dating men.

Brown kids have always sought external validation

I am one of the many middle-class brown children, who have been raised as performing monkeys. We have danced to Bollywood songs for nameless uncles at family gatherings and recited our mark sheet for...