'On a soapbox but awkward' by Gauri Priya Bora

Published: July 10, 2022, 10:05 a.m.

'If there was one thing I hated most in the world, it was prudishness. I had been reprimanded by prim and proper people so many times that even the memory of them was enough to send a shiver down my spine' -- from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.