Risha

Risha

Risha (they / she) is disabled, Malayali, Muslim, genderqueer, pan-greysexual; third-year law student at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad; writes in a stream-of-consciousness style on queerness, madness, and politics guided by the belief that the personal is always political.

  • This illustration includes text extracted from the accompanying article superimposed on a vertically rectangular image of a musty grey wall, scarred and pockmarked in places. The image is symbolic of the wall described by the author in their article. The text extract says: "Together, the writings made a wall that refused erasure. Not aesthetic, but insurgent. Not decoration, but documentation. A manifesto of madness, queerness, resistance, and everything else the law school had no vocabulary for.” Background image credit P R on Unsplash
    My Story Aug '25

    The wall that held me

    By Risha

    Risha writes about their relationship with a scarred wall full of personal and political writings in their university hostel room

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