Author

Suma Narayan

@narayan.suma20

articles: 25
total claps: 10,177
top claps: 1,385
avg read: 3.5 min
paywalled: 22
active: 2021-08-24 → 2026-08-15

Wiki topics

LIT · Literature & Writing · 8 PSY · Mental Health & Psychiatry · 8 💑 · Relationships · 7 ✍️ · Writing & Creative · 6 ✨ · Lifestyle · General · 6 PSY · Psychology · 4 🚀 · Self Improvement · 4 CNT · Content Marketing · 4

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#writing ·7 #relationships ·7 #mental-health ·6 #inspiration ·6 #poetry ·5 #world ·5 #news ·5 #this-happened-to-me ·4 #life ·4 #creativity ·4

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SU Suma Narayan · Fourth Wave

Saree

Photo by Prince Mathews on Unsplash

Oct 28, 2021 · 1 min read · 1,385 claps #sari #sensuous #poetry-on-medium

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

The Miscommunication That Destroys Relationships

‘Want to borrow a jack?’

Jun 07, 2026 · 6 min read · 796 claps paywalled #relationships #communication #writing

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

The Power of One

One person CAN change the world around him

May 24, 2026 · 6 min read · 782 claps paywalled #inspiration #creativity #writing

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SU Suma Narayan · The RvR

Benedict, the Beautiful

When the neighbour’s cat comes visiting

Jun 02, 2026 · 3 min read · 602 claps paywalled #cats #pets #world

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SU Suma Narayan · the Challenged

Fireflies and Brass Lamps

A childhood in our ancestral home in Kerala, spent with maternal aunts and grandmother

Jul 10, 2026 · 6 min read · 573 claps paywalled #writing-prompts #childhood #family

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

Updated Submission Guidelines, 2026

Change comes to the Hope, Healing and Humour Pub

Jul 03, 2026 · 8 min read · 566 claps paywalled #submission-guidelines #call-for-submissions #writing

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

Why We Should Never Stop Writing

…and how we can write every day of our life

Jul 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 520 claps paywalled #writing #writing-tips #creativity

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

Seeds for a Starving Earth

The Inspiring Act of One Person With Courage and Conviction

Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read · 501 claps paywalled #world #news #inspiration

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SU Suma Narayan · Infinite Impulse

Stories of Grace and Goodness in The World

‘Seek, and thou shalt find…’

Jul 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 426 claps paywalled #world #news #creativity

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SU Suma Narayan · Hope, Healing, and Humour

‘Off Topic’? Seriously?

How does the algorithm decide whether a story is ‘off topic’?

Jul 08, 2026 · 2 min read · 401 claps paywalled #writing #writing-tips #publishing

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SU Suma Narayan · Dancing Elephants Press

The International Borders of Australia

…and how my husband changes when we cross them

May 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 395 claps paywalled #travel #mental-health #marriage

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SU Suma Narayan · The RvR

A Return to Natural Farming

A community-managed natural farming programme has been awarded the Food Planet Prize, 2026

Jun 16, 2026 · 2 min read · 351 claps paywalled #news #world #food

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SU Suma Narayan · Age of Empathy

Who Will Cast the First Stone?

When gossip becomes ugly

Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 350 claps paywalled #personal-essay #mindfulness #empathy

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SU Suma Narayan · Namaste Now!

Winter Leaves and Trunks of Trees

The man I live with and I go on a walk

Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read · 312 claps paywalled #humor #mental-health #women

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SU Suma Narayan · The Hub Publication

Secrets And Sanity

Can you bear to know the truth about a friend?

Jun 13, 2026 · 1 min read · 311 claps paywalled #poetry #relationships #love

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SU Suma Narayan · The Hub Publication

Friend, Will You Give Me Some Time?

The greatest gift of all, our time

Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read · 310 claps paywalled #friendship #relationships #poetry

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SU Suma Narayan

The Giggle Versus Tickle Case

Shrinking women-only safe spaces

Jun 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 300 claps paywalled #news #world #women

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SU Suma Narayan · Infinite Impulse

The Princess Margaret Ride to Conquer Cancer

Drishty Tanwar successfully rides 208.31 kms, in two days

Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 260 claps paywalled #research #science #inspiration

The Princess Margaret Ride to Conquer Cancer

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SU Suma Narayan · Fourth Wave

When Men Sulk, to Control and Manipulate

Sulking was a weapon used by the narcissistic men in my life

Jul 16, 2026 · 6 min read · 254 claps paywalled #games #relationships #family

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SU Suma Narayan · Mid-Knight Falls

The Prince and The Pixie

…in an enchanted forest glade

Jun 17, 2026 · 1 min read · 237 claps paywalled #poetry #mental-health #relationships

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SU Suma Narayan · Tea with Mother Nature

Moringa-Flower Curry

A Spring Recipe

Dec 14, 2021 · 3 min read · 215 claps #cooking #life #moringa

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SU Suma Narayan · The Daily Cuppa

An Australian Dawn

A morning in Woodland Gardens

Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read · 177 claps paywalled #morning-routines #spirituality #nature

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SU Suma Narayan · the Challenged

From People-Pleasing-Doormat, to Being Assertive and Confident

How faith in God, and myself, helped me transform

Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 100 claps paywalled #writing-prompts #mental-health #self-improvement

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SU Suma Narayan

Whose Voice Haunts Your Mind?

It has taken me three decades of teaching, and six, of living, to realise that the chatter in my head is the result of several figures of…

Aug 24, 2021 · 1 min read · 52 claps #anxiety #decisions #take-back-control

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SU Suma Narayan · The RvR

The Murder Of Trees

Is killing a tree the only answer?

Jul 13, 2026 · 1 min read · 1 claps paywalled #the-rvr #trees #nature