If madness is like drowning, then writing is my raft ashore
I imagine madness as a kind of watery death, like Ophelia’s. The only way I can get to safety is by writing myself ashore
by Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel
Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel is interning as a correspondent at The Economist’s Foreign Desk. She is also concluding a Master’s in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and holds a previous Master’s in Modern South Asian Studies from the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies as a Rhodes Scholar from India. She writes both fiction and academic works, and lives in London, UK.
Written by Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel