Vidhya Anand is a writer, journalist and poet from Chennai currently based in Cincinnati.
She consults for an independent magazine Inframe and is an art docent at the Taft Museum of Art, a 200-year old house and national historic landmark. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Hindu, JFW (Just for Women), Club Class, Brew Lifestyle, InFrame and elsewhere.

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When David Attenborough’s A Life on Planet Earth arrived at our Netflix doorsteps, the world, I want to believe, became a better place, not by immediate change, only by its will to make one. Discovering our own dispositions oftentimes eludes us. So, I began searching and scouting earthen mounds for a sign, a clue. Somewhere in the crevice of my own spine arching, and the rise of canopies in a tree grove, my truth, our truth awaits. 

Story envisioned by Chaithraa Jagadeesha

Before I begin, you should know I’m only a wisp of unattended, southern, coastal breeze, caught in another hemisphere writing to you. Nothing more. Nothing less. What am I writing about, you may ask. But, don’t. It’s not the kind of narrative that fits profound syntaxes, ruminating on profound meanings. Only an envious greeting from elsewhere: 

In this country, I collect wildflowers. They’re mostly yellow and smeared heavy with pollen.

Photographs by Shama Nair

Break the peace, and you’ll break my limbs.
Move a table, and you’ll conceive a fracture.
The candles, my eyes, the plants, my soul,
The soft of pillows, my temperament.

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