I’ve spent my whole life feeling like I didn’t belong with anyone or anywhere,’ says K. Vaishali, author of Homeless
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“But I look able-bodied to everyone,” writes K. Vaishali in her memoir, Homeless (2023). With these words, she opens a discourse on issues we are conditioned to be silent on — the impact of invisible and undiagnosed disabilities on a person; the shortcomings of an education system which fails to accommodate children with differences; a society’s intolerance for anyone who defies prescribed norms, and more. Vaishali, who won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (English), 2024, says writing with the compounding effect of dyslexia and dysgraphia was a “transformative experience”.
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Vaishali lived a life of alienation and dissonance till she found an outlet in writing, al...