Month: May 2022

Anvi Tuteja, Feed, Speak Up! Act Now!

Introducing Speak Up! Act Now!

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Platform: Previously launched on impactfulactions.wordpress.com

In 2021, I launched Speak Up! Act Now!, a platform born out of a deep desire to inspire young changemakers like myself. This initiative was inspired by the ‘10 Impactful Actions’ outlined by the United Nations, a framework that encourages individuals to take meaningful steps toward positive global change.

The journey began with a simple idea: to empower young voices and guide them toward becoming leaders who can make a difference. This vision was recognized and celebrated when I won the United Nations School Champs for Climate Action competition, a moment that reinforced my commitment to this cause.

Through Speak Up! Act Now!, I aim to create a world where every voice matters and where young people are equipped with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to drive social and environmental change. Whether it’s through leadership development, environmental advocacy, or peer mentorship, this platform is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of changemakers.

Join me in this journey of empowerment and action, and together, let’s inspire a wave of positive change across communities and beyond.

ANVI TUTEJA

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#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

*untitled* – ASTRONOMY 1.6

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This is the ultimate poem of Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to present the ultimate poem Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.6, untitled:

Presenting 1.6, *untitled*

i feel like i’m a different person on the inside and outside of me,
who i truly am, beyond this body, it’s deeds, isn’t the me the world sees,
they see me for someone i’m not – the tears, the jealously, and the drama,
i take about who i am, really am, and they laugh in my face and say it’s karma,

and i’ve crossed this out – one, two, three four thousand times,
crossed out scars, and two many i’m sorry’s,
too many pauses, and fallings out, to make coherent sense,

i don’t know where this is going, and now i want to laugh,
seems this coping mechanism has been working oh too fast.
anvi tuteja

#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

purple flowers – ASTRONOMY 1.5

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This is the penultimate poem of Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to present the penultimate poem Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.5, purple flowers:

Presenting 1.5, purple flowers

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice,
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favour fire.

Fire and Ice, Robert Frost

Because I could not stop for death,
He kindly stopped for me,
The Carriage held but just ourselves,
And Immortality.

Because I could not stop for death, Emily Dickinson

Sometimes I wonder, if you even know I exist,
Because forget my advances, even my conversations you resist,
And I’ve been told not to feel this way,
What way? At this point, it’s my existence, and even that you want to take away.

You take and I give,
I die and you live,
Could I get a few moments, where maybe, just maybe, you could like me?
And I could pretend, that this loneliness isn’t frightening.

And this entangled web of failing friends,
These insane dead ends.

I know you don’t want me,
but why do you want her?
If I died today,
would you even give a damn tomorrow?

Would you come to my funeral, and leave purple flowers at my grave?
Or would you go to her house, and attend the latest rave?

Is it such a crime to want me?
Have I been anything but cordial?
Anything but as polite as could be?

Do you even care about my existence?
Will I ever be enough for you?
anvi tuteja

#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

could i despise you? – ASTRONOMY 1.4

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This is the continuation of Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to continue Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.4, could i despise you?:

Presenting 1.4, could i despise you?

Have you ever met one of those people,
The ones towards you gravitate, seemingly by principle?
I’d say I’d used to be one, but by now I think you know me,
Enough to know that’s something I could never be.

Could I despise you?
If I never even knew you?
Because I’ve seen you,
Too many times for my accusations to be branded untrue.

But if you don’t even see me,
Do I even matter, because I’m used to it?
Could anyone ever be used to feeling used?
Needed for not the sake of being needed,
Wanted for only a moment, where YOU can take a laugh.

Because am I a device through which you expel your negativity?
A means for you to cleanse your soul,
Before you take what we made together, and call it your own.

And we’ve all seen what happens when I take your side,
We crash and burn, and I ruin my life and feel dead inside.

“But where is the flow going?” is what I need to know.
Need to Know.
Desperately.

‘Cause where is this going?
‘Cause where are we going?

My identity, my existence is “Repetitive,”
And I’m afraid, someday I’ll believe it.
anvi tuteja


#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

insanity – ASTRONOMY 1.3

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This is the continuation of Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to continue Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.3, insanity:

Presenting 1.3, insanity

Whenever I’m around you
I get this crushing sense of inferiority,
This feeling of being slave to your fleeting fidelity,
And it seems, I’m the only one to blame,
And it’s always on me that you don’t feel the same,

Are you the definition of insanity? Or am I?
Oh, it must be nice to love someone who lets you break them twice. 1

And every moment feels like another hit to my armour,
A crack in my cruel soul,

I think I found solace in writing these,
Because I never believed them to be true,
But now it seems, these words that I leased,
Have turned my heart traitor, and it always comes back to you,

I was never capable of feeling,
And I felt like my soul was screaming.
Drowning.
Drowning in the weight of expectations that weren’t even mine.
And now even existing feels like a crime.
anvi tuteja

1 Lyric by FINNEAS from Break My Heart Again. Not intended to violate copyright or claim as intellectual property.



#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

love is a liar – ASTRONOMY 1.2

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This is the continuation of Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to continue Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.2, love is a liar:

Presenting 1.2, love is a liar

>>believe>>
and i can’t even cry,
because i’m still stuck on the fact of how many times you lied,

i guess we just had bad timing,
because even back then i always knew you were lying,

“and i made the mistake of falling in love with you.”

and i said ,”I don’t know what love is
But I bet it’s pretty damn close to this,”

because if the world wants me dead,
let it come out and kill me,

and i’m no longer into you,
’cause you were never into me,

i never knew what to do,
but i took a chance thanks to your infidelity.
anvi tuteja

#astronomy!, Anvi Tuteja, Poems

permanent superiority – ASTRONOMY 1.1

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This is the beginning Part I of ASTRONOMY, it’s fate and we’re two worlds apart. This series is all about what introvertism means, how it feels when your best friend is on another planet, and how hard it hits to know that you have insecurity. 

ASTRONOMY album cover

Astronomy, is going to be published in multiple parts, and I’m pleased to begin Part I:

flitting like the pages of a book… fleeting like the first love… falling, tumbling down the cliff… failing life’s greatest test… feeling like there’s nothing left to lose…

Presenting 1.1, permanent superiority:

Presenting 1.1, permanent superiority

this crushing sense of inferiority,
all bow down to your permanent superiority,
i say i’m dead inside,
but was i ever really alive?

life is supposed to be an amalgamation of moments,
but mine is just the same period rejection playing over and over,

i look for you,
to find you,
but when i do,
i can’t say anything because neither do you.

and i wonder, was any of it ever real?
i spent my entire life trying to deduce the way i made you feel,

and now the infallible, irrefutable conclusion is here,
because before i met you i never had anything to fear,

now i care about you in ways that i didn’t know i could,
because this faithless heart feels illegal love, like the kind it knows it shouldn’t,

i think, right now, my only question is did you care?
and on second thought, don’t tell me, because i could never handle that scare.

i’m standing and i say, “is there anyone who doesn’t know me?”
you stand up and say, “i don’t know you,” and inside, i feel insincerity,

I needed you like Air,
But I guess you could Breathe just fine, without me there,

this monument of a heart
that’s now barely beating in broken parts,

if i knew it was time for me to leave,
why would i ever this faithless love grieve?
anvi tuteja

Anvi Tuteja, Notice, Validation

Coming Soon: QUEEN of the Bad Guys

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Yes, I’m aware it’s been 2 weeks since I promised to deliver on my promise of ASTRONOMY Part I coming soon, and I assure you, it’s coming!

The poems for ASTRONOMY Part I are ALL WRITTEN, and I’m just waiting to unveil them for you. I was experimenting with writing today, and came up with this in honour of the first Monday in May.

In the meantime, enjoy this spoiler for a poem from VALIDATION, life is ironically lyrical, titled QUEEN of the Bad Guys (or simply, bad guy)

I didn’t choose this lifestyle, it came and chose me,
I was brought to a cave blindfolded, and two hours later I was the Queen,

Not everyone can pull of Taylor Swift Karma,
just like not everyone’s made to stomach Betrayal.

The second part of this poem will be called QUEEN of Betrayal. These poems are a part of the QUEEN series, first premiered in Reputation.

Until the next time I get inspired by something wild, beautiful and ethereal,
ANVI TUTEJA