Sahej Marwah, Author at Arré

Love All: Why We Need Valentine’s Day Now More than Ever

There’s not just one way to love in the public domain, and no one makes the rules. There is enough misery around; everyday we wake up to a world so tumultuous that it gets taxing to find happiness. If all it takes to be temporarily distracted from our impending doom is this one “greeting card” event then it’s truly no love lost.

Sahej Marwah April 12, 2016

POV

Pen-demic Pals: The Joy of Connecting with Strangers During the Time of Coronavirus

During the pandemic, the penpal fad got a reboot. When I started engaging with people outside, I found a radical shift in the way I communicated. Talking to strangers gave me the sense of being in touch with an unknown world outside. It reassured me that life still existed and was not made static by how time felt so warped for me.

Sahej Marwah April 2, 2016

Coronavirus

It Starts with One: A League of Ordinary Men and Women Trying to Save India Running Out of Breath

As the second wave of the pandemic hit us, our timelines were flooded with SOS calls. We were all filled with despair but then a few among us decided to do something about it. This is the story of those men and women, who started by making one phone call, running one errand, verifying one source, and haven’t stopped since.

Sahej Marwah March 23, 2016

Sports

In Defence of Those Who Refuse to Pay Tribute to Maradona

A woman Spanish footballer refused to pay tribute to Diego Maradona as a protest against domestic violence – the legendary Argentine has been accused of abuse and assault. For that, she received death threats. But when we tell the story of Maradona, must we not tell the whole truth instead of the decorous, convenient one?

Sahej Marwah March 22, 2016

Earth

Are Your “Sustainable” Fashion Choices Actually Saving the Planet?

What started off as thrift shops to endorse second-hand goods have now become means of selling export rejects against aestheticised backgrounds. The “donation drives” by fast-fashion brands are a farce. Your old clothes are not being recycled – 90 per cent are trashed or burnt.

Sahej Marwah March 5, 2016

Health

“A Face-Mask Will Do Me Good”: What We Get Wrong about “Self-Care”

I have unscrupulously indulged in shopping for clothes because “it made me feel better”, spent extravagantly on meals because “I was having a good time” and bought expensive hair products as “an investment in my future self”. I was slowly but surely haemorrhaging my bank account under the guise of “self-care”, yet I wasn’t feeling any good.

Sahej Marwah March 5, 2016

Gender

There’s No Such Thing as “Too Feminist”

The authorities of the city of Paris were fined for employing too many women in senior positions. To impose such ridiculous fines is to imply the existence of an imaginary “reverse inequality”.

Sahej Marwah March 1, 2016