With parents from 2 countries and a new address every 4ish years since I was 6 months old, I've always enclosed "home" in quotation marks. While this nomadic life is a privilege—especially in a world where displacement is so frequently forced by war, crisis and trauma—it has also made me a sensitive observer of what happens when you live everywhere and nowhere all at once. It’s hardly a unique condition in a hyper-mobile world, but it’s the lens I catch myself thinking critically about constantly.

 

Current Address is a collection of reflective pieces exploring my understanding of geography, global mobility, sense of place, and the internal shifts that occur when home is constantly redefined. These essays move between the personal and the systemic. I write about gated bubbles, foodways, family traditions, cross-border identities, postcolonialism and more alongside the realities of inequality, climate, crisis and digital connectivity.

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I make no claim to offer complete or authoritative takes on places I’ve only briefly called home—knowing full well that living in a bubble in the city means only ever knowing a small fraction of it. I’m just documenting the view from a specific corner of my room. What I can promise is an unfiltered, imperfect, and thoroughly human view of how I see the world. Straight from my heart, in the hope of reaching yours. 

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This project started in 2021, when I first moved to Kampala, Uganda. I have since moved back to Kathmandu, Nepal. I’ve also lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Vientiane, Laos; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Jakarta, Indonesia; North Carolina, United States of America and Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

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Endless gratitude to Ralph and Donna, who are always with me whenever I sit down to write. Thank you for the nudge to coax this platform back to life, and for reminding me that even if these musings might seem ordinary or superficial to some (including myself), they’re worth putting into words, if only because I know the two of you are reading.

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*Lee, from my mother, Leelavathy (born in Sarawak, Malaysia). Na from my father, Nabendra (born in Sankhuwasava, Nepal).