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 …

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 …

“Completing” the other?

Romantic movies wish for us to believe that there is one person out there who is our other half; someone who will complete us intellectually, emotionally, and physiologically. They want us to wait for this soulmate and this person shall be our salvation. We can and should find someone for ourselves who is an intellectual …

My spot in Pune

Yesterday I visited this quaint place in Pune. A mere 15 minutes away from the campus, it is a place I can truly imagine myself spending many a days at. Named Pagdandi, this place is perfect to settle down with a cup of tea, some light snack or just an ice tea and read to …

Understanding myself

I recently talked (here) of the new journey that I have embarked on. I also believe how I've made two great friends and am settling in. As time passes, I slowly gravitate to carving a new comfort zone for myself in this initially alien place. I have had a little time in the past few …

A new journey thus begins

Life, was comfortable at Noida with a job. There however, comes a time, when being in the comfort zone just isn't enough. A time, when one needs to let go of what's known and safe and start walking a road where the destination is uncertain. One such journey I have begun in June. A journey …

Happy? Independence Day

Below are the words of a citizen of India on the occasion of India celebrating its 70th Independence Day. The words show what any person who is sensible enough to see things as they are feels about the issue that should be one keeping this nation awakein thought. (Warning: Long post and brutally honest. Reader …