Archive - A Book Of The Heart

A vaunk (funk) o’fire.

Photo: Earth, Wind and Fire - Freedom of Choice

Jun 4 •

Arathi Devandran

May 2024

Updates and an Excerpt.

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May 26 •

Arathi Devandran

Soon, I will be home, and won’t I be happier for it?

One glass of champagne in and the words flow uninhibited. If you’d asked me what kind of a drinker I was in my 20s, I would have said I was unflappable…

May 3 •

Arathi Devandran

April 2024

Perhaps, perhaps, we will all be saved.

Nine days ago, I celebrated my first year of completing cancer treatment. Celebrated might be a bit of an exaggeration; I spent the day working, and the…

Apr 30 •

Arathi Devandran

My ஆத்திரம், my ஆங்காரம்.

This is an excerpt of a journal entry that I have been editing for my book. Yes, that novel that I’ve been working on for all of my life. The book of my…

Apr 9 •

Arathi Devandran

March 2024

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Photo: Sisyphus by Titian from Wikipedia.

Mar 25 •

Arathi Devandran

What is the point of this life? What is the point of any of this?

I have been thinking a lot about my physical body lately. You must bear with me, a lot of the writing you will see on this platform might seem circular…

Mar 3 •

Arathi Devandran

February 2024

You see, true belonging - it’s often an inside job.

We are on Day Three of our travels. The land continues to astound me. Jordan of the hills, Jordan of the light sand and the people with bright smiles…

Feb 21 •

Arathi Devandran

Because one man’s truth is usually another man’s folly.

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Feb 13 •

Arathi Devandran

January 2024

This space of great import.

Photo: A version of home.

Jan 15 •

Arathi Devandran

If I want to live, I must face being alive.

When I was about seven or eight years old, I had a really bad haircut. My mother brought me to a Chinese hairdresser at the shopping complex near my HDB…

Jan 11 •

Arathi Devandran

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