New Hobby New Me?

A friend of mine will vouch for this wholeheartedly; since my move to Mumbai in April of this year, I have been going on and on about building communities and finding one's people. This can come in various forms yet the easiest is to find people who share a public hobby. As someone who grew …

Another Year in Review: Another Note of Thanks

From Spotify Wrap to Instagram Year End template, "My year in review" is everywhere. So here's the Thank You for being you version of this from me in blog format. 😊 2022 has been a year of changes, growing, unlearning and a much deeper understanding of who I currently am, and who I wish to …

Music: My oldest best friend

Today for me my best friends are the people in whose company I find comfort, who make me think and ponder on ideas, whose words allow me insight into what could potentially be on my own mind as I listen to them, who give me honest and real inputs on my life and who care …

What’s Normal Anyway?

Widening of perspective beyond just mine as an adult brought with it an understanding that ideas of normal and norms are entirely individualistic. They are affected by our families, culture and society but what is normal in almost everything to each of us is unique. A fascinating idea that has captivated me in recent days. …

Reclaim

As 2021 dawns today it is easier than normal to look back at 2020 with a sense of slight detachment. The year was different than what anyone could have expected or hoped from it. This meant none of us have come out of it unchanged. Many thoughts that have been in the mind since March …

Graduating Pandemic

Words to thoughts yet to be grasped as they flee around in the mind in such a time. Thank you for capturing these emotions Stuti.

Fancy Narrations

When a major yet sudden disruption comes your way, your brain decides to either glaze over it or outright reject it. I remember feeling this way when demonetization was announced, I remember feeling this way when human rights were systematically violated, I remember feeling this way when fear of death could be tasted in the air (during the outbreak of a virus or the outbreak of despotism) and I remember feeling just as numb if not more when I learned in a span of 4 days that my college farewell was replaced by a pandemic.

The fact that the uncertainty of my life (as is the case for almost every graduating student I know) has taken priority over everything else I mentioned is a loaded statement in honour of my privilege.

When I took the decision to come back to pursue further education, I came with specific goals (I remember…

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Changing Understandings

As a teenager and a young adult, I used to frown at the idea that we change a lot over time. To my naive mind we did not change as people. I could see no major changes from one day to another so no major changes could have happened at all, right? I know better …

Selling Fear

Fear is an extremely potent tool. We know enough about how politics power equations use it. I'm sure a million examples have popped up into your head already. Today, let's talk not of those examples but of how wherever you are being sold a peroduct or service, how, more often than not, they sell it …

Home

A movie that I have been obsessed with and really liked recently, made me fall in love with a dialogue: Mujhe bahut time lag Gaya ye samajhne mein ki Ghar koi jagah Nahi ek insaan bhi ho Sakta hai As I mulled over this thought, it quickly became clear to me how true it is …

She revisits his journey

She stared at the box for a long time, lost in thought and memories. Her attention only returned to the real word minutes (or was it hours) later when the phone rang and she noticed it was her boyfriend. She closed the box with a decade of memories and returned it to its spot in …