Prachi Gupta

“Now I think of memories as haphazard blots of ink in a Rorschach test that we assemble along the spine of the story we are told about who we are.”
― Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

“Until I felt the tenuousness of my own safety net, I didn’t understand that most don’t have access to basic healthcare, savings or stable familial support. I’d been raised to believe that comfort was the result of hard work or innate intellect, but I was starting to understand that fulfillment of these basic human needs was tied to a person’s body, bloodline, and the origins of their birth. Papa’s wealth had made me feel entitled to a level of security that no one is owed or guaranteed. I had a simplistic understanding of the world and how it worked because it worked well enough for me, and it was only when it stopped working for me that I began to think about the ways in which it failed to work for others.”
― Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us