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The Grammar of My Body


Subverting an ableist India’s expectations from a disabled person to be ‘inspirational’ and an ‘underdog who made it’ despite their illness, Abhishek Anicca writes about everyday stories of living with disability and chronic illness in this memoir-in-essays. 

The Grammar of My Body

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The Grammar of My Body review: Living with disability, desire and dignity

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Survival is an act of defiance

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“I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca

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The Reality of Disability in India

Columns

Society, Politics, Culture

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Why I love the Paralympics but hate the inspiration porn

Seen and unseen: Disabled characters lost in cinema

How to become a man!

NFHS questions: Disabled used as inspo but we still don’t count

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Data Gaps: Undercounting Disability In India

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The rain talks to us. Are we listening?

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The queerness of love

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High on Tokenism: The Struggles of Finding Work as a Disabled Person in India

Personal Essays

Parts of me

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Disabled Mindsets

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​​​​​​​कितकित  

मेरे शरीर का व्याकरण औरों से अलग है

Notebook and Pen

Why men don't talk about pleasure

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Poetry

Recent Publications

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The Moon, Forbidden Nostalgia And The Pigeon

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Grandma's Rain - The Alipore Post

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Artsy Envelope

Posham Pa - Vyaakran

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Samosas - Gulmohur Quarterly

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Performances

 Spillover @ Spiel Art Festival, Germany

Grammar @ Agents of Ishq

Maps @ Outlandish Arts, Australia

Books

Stories by Abhishek Anicca

Official Writer Portfolio

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