https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comfortable-apparently The Land and Its People Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1646 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:32:18 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1646 As I read your article, Virginia Woolf's A Room of Ones Own came to my mind. Even though I resonate with the sentiment of inherent safety and sense of community, being a woman I lean towards having a choice to have privacy when one wants/needs it and conversely having a choice to participate as a community in shared spaces. So for me it all boils down to having choices instead of having to adapt due to lack of it. I believe it is not a this for that deal, rather a little of this, a little of that and then some hybrid, to meet the need for privacy with the need for communal unions and harmony. I love your photographs.

]]> https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1644 Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:55:26 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1644 Shivam Darnal's beautifully crafted piece translates the longing for closeness, intimacy and family that all of us carry within and no longer exists. Great read !

]]> https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1641 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:18:36 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1641 Nicely written Da

]]> https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1640 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:08:06 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1640 What a beautiful and resonant piece. You've perfectly captured that quiet ache for a different kind of security; the one found not behind iron gates, but within the walls of a cramped, chaotic home filled with family. Your words took me back to my own childhood, where I always longed for that very kind of lively, bustling household. Thank you for articulating something so many of us feel but can't quite put into words.

]]> https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1639 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:07:30 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1639 Such a beautiful piece 🍀

]]> https://sikkimproject.org/comfortable-apparently/#comment-1638 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:56:56 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=9508#comment-1638 Mama, dami! Your own words do justice to your photographs. Intense!

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