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I Got 99 Problems… Being a Baby-Faced Adult is One

As a five-foot-nothing adult with a face that makes me look 14, I’ve been called everything from “chota recharge” to “aw baby”. Even though I work in a legitimate office, my baby face ensures that total strangers inquire about which school I go to.

Ayushi Murli March 5, 2016

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How I Saw the World on a Cocaine Trip (and Why I Stopped)

They say cocaine is the rich person’s drug. Every decision, every thought, can be justified after a couple of lines. Even though it’s no hallucinogen, it allows you to live in a mirage for a few hours. There’s us, the coke users, happy, rich, successful – and then there’s them, the regulars, poor, lazy, and unworthy.

Anonymous March 3, 2016

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How a Seagull Saved a Navy Pilot Who Crash-Landed in the Sea

A crash-landing in the Arabian Sea brought together two seafaring flyers in the most extraordinary circumstances.

Tanvi Dhulia March 3, 2016

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You Can’t Handle the Tooth: How I Learned to Love My Buck-Teeth

In the words of the first orthodontist I visited, I had “very big teeth for such a little girl.” I did well at school, I was a dancer and an athlete, there was so much more to me as a person, yet I was reduced to the girl who needed to get her teeth fixed.

Shreya Rajagopal March 1, 2016