Sneha Jayaraj, a queer South Indian attorney, community advocate, and lover of arts, culture, and spirituality, grew up with roots as wide as oceans. While their family built a life in America, their ancestral home in Kerala remained alive with the prayers of generations of women who tended to its sacred spaces, fed its spirits, and honored the divinity they knew lived within the land like seeds eager to bear fruit for our communities.
But what happens to a home when the people who once breathed life into its walls are no longer there to care for it? As migration carries families farther from their ancestral lands, the rituals that once connected generations begin to fade. Yet Sneha reminds us that love, like water, does not disappear when it leaves its source. It finds new places to flow.
In Forgetting to Honor, we explore how colonialism, capitalism, and migration have transformed our relationships with ancestry, spirituality, and collective care. Through Sneha’s journey from the sacred homes of Kerala to their work advocating for housing justice in New York City and founding Law of Love, a legal practice offering culturally sensitive, multilingual, and trauma-informed legal support, we investigate how Hindu philosophies of Dharma and Sadhana invite us to understand devotion as an act of service, how the divine feminine challenges Western understandings of labor and care, and whether honoring our ancestors means preserving the homes they left behind or carrying their love into the world we are building.
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