The black sheep
Rural life
by Kiran Sidhu
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLARA NICOLL
I have a confession: whenever I see a black sheep, I feel a strange desire to stand up and applaud—to express how grateful Iam for its existence.
I have an affinity with the black sheep; I have always felt like one within my extended family and my wider Indian culture. The way I live my life is seen as unconventional and quixotic. Some of my “experiments in living”, as the 19thcentury British philosopher John Stuart Mill would call them, such as partying on MDMA at the height of the club scene in the 1990s, have been particularly unpopular with my family.