September 17, 2026

Sai Shraddha S Viswanathan

This piece was written in reminiscence of home, familiarity, and the feeling of coming of age long after turning 18. I moved to Scotland in 2021 to pursue a master’s degree. For me, travelling to a different country, let alone packing my life and existence into a few suitcases, was a dream placed too high up the summit. I had the opportunity to recite this piece, which was initially a poem (parts of which still retain that structure), at a talk at my university in August 2021, where ‘intersectionality’ was the theme of discussion.