2023-03-27 19:29
Isn’t it beautiful that a sense of comfort settles in once you start enjoying your headspace filled with questions? Hear me out if that’s not the case with you.
When dealing… Read More
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2023-03-10 19:21
by the beachon sunlit watersand calmer mindslost in thoughts
the setting sunand horses onthe runcarrying chariotson watery ends
smiling facesfor camera rollson windy days andreceeding… Read More
2023-03-09 15:39
People want more. More than they have. More than what others have. Isn’t always materialistic. The need isn’t always satiated through a click-and-buy.
More the merrier. Ye di… Read More
2023-03-08 19:54
When checklists start to dictate decisions, the romanticism of living this life ceases to matter. Questions, answers. Umms and aahs. All filled onto the timesheet.
The heart craves for m… Read More
2023-02-28 20:48
It’s futile to wish that life will ever offer a blank canvas to repaint. Those of us, who, from time to time, indulge in such childish fantasies need to absorb this truth.
The leas… Read More
2023-02-27 20:31
The quickest recipe to get disappointed is notching up our hope. Worrying too much about a plan to succeed only to see it crumble. Either all at once or gradually. Like a sand castle.
Yo… Read More
2023-02-26 20:41
Our mind is always running through multiple overlaps. Tricks. Playing, toying with us.
Stories, timelines, what ifs, and what wills. Throwing them as puzzles that won’t ever finish… Read More
2023-02-25 20:47
It lasts for a few moments. Feeling in your head where you seem to have decided that this is it. This is the moment I’m going to change my life. That rush of optimism flowing through a… Read More
2023-02-22 23:20
The flow of life, at times, is similar to a puddle. Stagnant. Seeping slowly down in a drain. There’s hope that it eventually sashays itself into the vast meaningless void of the ocea… Read More
2022-05-08 19:54
Muslims who deny even the existence of caste and don’t even take the time and effort to learn about it sound exactly like their upper-caste counterparts from other religions.
Most l… Read More
2022-05-02 07:01
Amid the heatwave and a looming electricity crisis, do you know who decides to resume his foreign trips?
Yes, him. Our prime minister.
I mean, we’re all looking for ways to beat… Read More
2022-05-01 07:08
Most likely, Muslims in India are going to celebrate Eid on Tuesday. Unless, of course, the crescent decided to show up tomorrow in India itself after missing from the gulf skies today. High… Read More
2022-04-30 09:50
We all live in bubbles within our circles, communities, regions, and social spaces. Issues that we talk about, raise our voices on and seek solutions to are confined within the boundaries of… Read More
2022-04-18 11:03
The primary reason why they’ve not been able to shift the entire blame on Muslims as easily as before is because of video evidence. Videos recorded by Muslims capture the whole tamasha… Read More
2022-04-16 21:52
After Ram Navmi, now it’s time for rallies for Hanuman Jayanti. The intent is clear—assertion of authority. Ensuring that they keep creating scenarios where violence can happen&m&hell…Read More
2022-04-08 13:15
They’re going to come for everything. Clothes, food, language, appearance, jobs, and everything you can name don’t fit into their idea of a Hindu Rashtra. It won’t matter i… Read More
2022-02-27 15:27
The English Teacher by RK Narayan.
The life of an English teacher in a small South Indian town is probably as mundane as it sounds. But, if this is a character out of an RK Narayan book… Read More
2022-02-14 10:42
The English patient by Michael Ondaatje.
Halfway through this prosaic melody, as a reader, you wonder why this is titled as such. Over time, as you flip the pages, the realization dawns o… Read More
2022-01-29 11:25
‘Saying what you mean’ sounds simple and yet is a difficult skill to master. We all have our share of running around the bush before we come close to uttering the meat of what we… Read More
2022-01-17 15:45
Don’t you love reading books that you enjoy as you’re reading them page by page?
V.S Naipaul’s ‘A house for Mr. Biswas’ is one such gem based in Trinidad. Th… Read More
2021-12-30 07:40
A group of three friends- A Sikh, a Hindu, and a Muslim- in their 80s meet every day in a Delhi park. Every day. This breeze of a read is a monthly journal of their meetings where they discu… Read More
2021-12-12 10:41
A passage to India is a collected archive of the many Indias that birthed today’s republic. The culmination of sorts of the many that laid the foundations. E.M Forster’s book isn… Read More
2021-12-08 19:29
Journey(s)
Different. Distinct. Stops. Pauses. Jumps. Skip. Change course. Move. Forwards and backward. Short. Long. Ups and downs. Restart.
Journey(s).
Our journey in life continue… Read More
2021-12-07 18:22
Cities are personalities. The kind that influences yours too. Not just the outer you but the core of it. Repeatedly brushing it with faint strokes. For days. And then they leave you in color… Read More
2021-09-26 19:41
.the chains of the morning bed,clawing back the body of he
holding the self, snoozing awaythe sounds of the chirps
of a little sun, of a little rainof hopes that are so little
the u… Read More
2021-07-17 08:41
No Rules Rules- Netflix and the culture of Reinvention.
First, I love the fact as to how apt the title is to this book. Being a book that revolves around the concept of not having too ma… Read More
2020-12-28 15:29
Guest Post submitted by Pragya Pathak
From the top of the sky to the depth of the sea,From the chills of winter to the trickling sweat of summers,That much, yes that much!
There is so… Read More
2020-07-27 13:01
Book Review: Memoirs of a Geisha
If I have to be honest, my instinctive reaction to think of ‘who a Geisha is’ was different before I picked up this book. It is easy to… Read More
2020-07-19 15:48
A sense of calm, bereft of mornings, overcomes my sense, as I got up today after a late afternoon nap. Nowhere to rush to, absolutely nothing to do but just a feeling of being in that very m… Read More
2020-05-10 12:40
It’s a breezy weekend read of just 133-odd pages which feels half that. One of those types of achool-book stories which we’re all familiar with. Ruskin Bond’s stories are a… Read More
2020-05-02 14:05
#BookReview: ‘A Suitable Boy’ by Vikram Seth.
First, no. of pages: 1473.
While I’ve not read reviews of this book, I’m pretty sure the length of it should be th… Read More
2019-12-15 18:50
Watching the video of Delhi police mercilessly beating students up makes my blood boil. How can they? And how is everybody being okay with something like this? My timeline is just filled wit… Read More
2019-09-21 17:07
The ticking timeline of our lives forces us to find closures to everything. Fixing it. Find a natural end to the problem at hand. An itch waiting to be scratched occupies the headspace like… Read More
2019-06-08 10:36
A window that looks out towards the moving world while the freshly brewed liquid gets sipped past my longing lips. It’s a relief. Relief from the heat from outside that this artificial… Read More
2019-05-22 18:13
Modi will go away tomorrow, or maybe after 5 more years, but it’ll go away someday. But, it has definitely helped unmask the hatred lying beneath a lot of faces. Not saying all BJP sup… Read More
2019-04-21 14:32
Waterfalls are magnificent! Right? But when you’re in India, there are times (a lot) when you’re left disappointed when you visit these. The timing has to be perfecto. If you vis… Read More
2019-03-20 18:04
There’s no end to lies we tell ourselves. And we keep telling it, like a self-created propaganda, inflicted every moment for adjusting our head to reality. The scary reality of people… Read More
2019-03-19 19:09
Of all the tiresome things, the one where we get tired of our own pattern of decision-making is the most heart-wrenching. Figuring out the cause of your problems is your own self and your st… Read More
2019-03-18 20:18
There’s an itch that I can’t seem to put my finger on and scratch. And yet, I know of the presence it has over a part of me. I keep looking for where exactly it is and just canno… Read More
2019-03-17 18:59
Losing your true self is easier than we think. Being lost in the milieu of storms, big and small, over the course of this finite existence is tragically real. Our life is a constant commute… Read More
2019-03-16 20:50
In the entrapment of the gloriously shaded world, finding time for your own metamorphosizing self is a struggle. We’re not the only one. The cries of ‘Why me?!’ is the most… Read More
2018-12-31 22:04
As I start to write down about the year that just slipped past us, I was reminded of my ’17 Review and I immediately looked up on what I wrote. Recalling the highlights of 2018 needed… Read More
2018-09-23 10:03
As kids, when the era of the Internet hadn’t dawned upon mankind, one of the favorite pastimes used to be solving riddles. Hours spent thinking and breaking down riddles. These riddles… Read More
2018-09-10 14:17
Any juncture of life, the element of ‘being content’ seems just a little ahead of us. Like a dangling stick with a prize stuck on the bonnet and you keep driving on the road that… Read More
2018-09-06 07:11
‘The Guide’ by RK Narayan is an amazing before-after story that captures the arc, deconstructs it and re-creates it in parallel. Guide is about passion driving a man to the shall… Read More
2018-09-03 06:57
I know a lot of you would have heard about this book. And a lot less would have actually read it. For some reason, a lot of people term this as ‘erotica’. I won’t lie, but… Read More
2018-08-23 20:45
It’s powerful. Powerful enough to make people blind. Blindly giving away their humanity to the whispers of the devil on their shoulders. A strong resolve to avenge or teaching ‘t… Read More
2018-08-12 12:01
It’s easy to get lost in the confusion of similar names of characters of the Buendia family over generation when they all start living lives reminiscing another generation. It’s… Read More
2018-07-28 14:38
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch and get entertained. And nothing else. This franchise is not going to self-destruct itself anytime soon. And if you don’t have… Read More
2018-07-19 21:24
You know you’re in a good place when the auto-waalas are nice to you. I mean, how often does that happen? The weather seemed better than I expected. Humid. But manageable. Considering… Read More
2018-07-08 07:31
The Namesake. How much impact does our name have on our lives? My name ends up being my ‘last name’ to those unfamiliar with how Muslim names work in a lot of occasions. Not only… Read More
2018-06-20 16:29
Godan. This happens to be the first Hindi Novel (of such length) that I’ve read. I’ve read a few excerpts before and even watched the on-film version of this long back, but readi… Read More
2018-06-06 09:24
If I’d known that all of Murakami’s work are translated versions, I probably would’ve shied away from reading one. I’m glad I didn’t. This book has been a revel… Read More
2018-05-30 08:30
There’s a lot of talk in workplaces and even outside, on working hours. What’s the ideal number an employee should be spending in the vicinity of their office. We’ve defini… Read More
2018-05-29 15:13
Writing in seclusion is what I always prefer. Zoning out, and penning down my thoughts. Not caring about the world in motion. What I don’t quite like is people starting on my screen wh… Read More
2018-05-28 06:13
The primary aim of my life has always been to be organized. A failed exercise about which I’ve talked endlessly. Not that you’ll remember. I mean, who remembers the rant of a blo… Read More
2018-05-27 14:03
Catch-22! This is one of the most clever books I’ve had a chance to read. We’re so used to using the paradoxical idiom of a Catch-22 in our real lives. This is THE origin of the… Read More
2018-05-26 12:55
Starting a new job comes loaded with so much of anxiety flowing throughout the day. The adjustments required to shift to a different gear gets to you in many ways. There’s just not one… Read More
2018-05-06 20:08
The vagaries of our lives are like the waves. We wish that they discuss (among themselves) and come to us with a synchronized display. Entertain us. And warn us when they don’t intent… Read More
2018-05-03 20:32
Conversations with strangers are what give rise to ideas with the absence of a filter. The unfamiliarity bares open your thoughts and even surprises you. It’s not suppression or the in… Read More
2018-04-28 15:31
Sunny days are back. So are the holidays for kids. No other times comes best like the travel made during summer. The proper plan execution of travel makes it a pleasant one. But, unavailabil… Read More
2018-04-19 21:04
Music from stringed-insruments in the background while the flowers spread themselves on multiple canvases, October seeps into your heart. The story pulls you in; doesn’t drain your emo… Read More
2018-04-15 20:44
When we stepped onto the vast White desert of Kutch, the moment was worth the long trip to the western state of Gujarat; the view was the most different I’ve felt in all of my travels… Read More
2018-04-12 07:24
When you walk into your office while the cleaning staff is lazily sashaying the broom near your desk, the gloomy deserted aura of the floor appears different than normal. The switched-on lig… Read More
2018-04-04 05:09
Decisions. Unlike the binaries which the world perceives it to be are complex. Complex enough to keep us anchored to our inertia. Disallowing us to move away. The imaginary leash is strong e… Read More
2018-03-30 17:20
The sounds of these waves, the sand beneath and the moon up above, all so soothingly calming. Like the wind cooling down the days humidity away. Someone’s playing live music in the caf… Read More
2018-03-20 17:29
The more one indulges in procrastination in writing, the longer it takes to get the mojo back. Not that your head doesn’t brim up with ideas for a new post, but none of those seem good… Read More
2018-03-04 15:04
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We’re just a few hours away from the Oscars 2018! I’m just reviewing the movies nominated for the ‘Best Picture Category’ in Alphabetical Order. S… Read More
2018-02-22 20:22
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आज काफी मोहलत निकालके लिखने … Read More
2018-02-11 19:20
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Pointlessness. That’s one word that has got stuck in my headspace. And the more I think about it, the more dangerous the thoughts emanating from it appear to… Read More
2018-02-05 18:52
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It’s never easy to listen amongst the noise. The noise of existence around you. The blaring horns of words that demand an answer. Their need and your obligation. Yo… Read More
2018-02-04 20:11
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[This is a Guest post contribution by Triphobo. TripHobo is the world’s largest repository of user-generated itineraries that helps millions of users to create… Read More
2018-01-28 16:52
ट्राली धकेलते हुए प्लेटफार्म न… Read More
2018-01-15 20:14
Do you also just let your YouTube playlist do it’s own thing by queuing songs on it’s own ? I do, too. But most of the time it’s either because it plays in one of the… Read More
2018-01-14 20:11
We all go through that stage of pointlessness in our lives. A goalless appraoch without a clear path and unsure of everything. ‘The catcher in the Rye’ by J.D Salinger is an exte… Read More
2018-01-13 15:54
In a scene typical of exasperated anger, the Mukkebaaz, holds his boss against the wall, uttering a dialogue while still crushing his own teeth, fist pointed at him as if he’s about to… Read More
2018-01-11 19:33
A Late afternoon walk towards the beach, with his grandfather, the kid walked alongside holding his hand. His grandfather towered over his tiny self. They were more than tens of thousands of… Read More
2018-01-10 20:49
“It’s the thought that counts!” She insisted for the nth time. The ‘gift’ was on the table in front of her while he stood there, with his hands in the pockets… Read More
2018-01-08 19:19
This book is the stuff of which nightmares are made of. An Orwellian Nightmare to be precise. The dystopian nature of this puts you in a headspace you don’t want to keep yourself… Read More
2018-01-07 19:27
आज बैठा था धूप तापते हुए बालकनी म… Read More
2018-01-06 20:58
Looking up, while a song plays, the zig-zags of the birds make tiny shadows on the blue afternoon sky. I had never seen those shadows, before. Probably did, but never thought of it, unlike t… Read More
2018-01-05 19:16
Did you watch the now-viral video of an Engineer forcefully being married at Gunpoint in Bihar? No? Well, you can check it up. And no, it isn’t a unique instance of it happening. The t… Read More
2018-01-04 19:19
The pendulum-like shift in (and out) focus is quite a necessity. A bare minimum to find the stale happiness lying around in smaller packets. Lost among the bigger ones, we’re always af… Read More
2018-01-03 19:34
This year is going to be about targets instead of resolutions. Resolutions that get recycled every year instead of getting accomplished. Targets that I’m going to put out there to help… Read More
2018-01-02 18:26
From being my #Cycle2Work partner to roaming around the Bangalore road; from as near as the local kirana store to as far as Mysore, this has remained by my side. It sounds ver… Read More
2018-01-01 13:35
I started last year by forcing myself to write everyday. Remember? And I did stick to the resolution (more or less) for close to a little over 100 days. Finding time to write and penni… Read More
2017-12-27 18:25
Just watched Kamal Haasan’s Michael Madana Kama Rajan. Like, is there anyone who can can play multiple characters with such an ease? Even though I don’t understand the language… Read More
2017-12-10 08:14
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Final moments of a crucial Hockey match and India is behind by 1 goal. It is almost certain they’ll lose unless a magic happens at the last minute. The captain of t… Read More
2017-11-20 19:38
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Minutes pass by as his tired eyes try gauging the freckles of light from outside the window, while the dark gloom of the room literally overshadows it all. The unde… Read More
2017-11-19 12:22
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The unplanned weekend has a calming character. Nothingness means something. The pleasant Bengaluru weather and the beautiful sky adds to the mood. Shuffling between the p… Read More
2017-11-17 21:27
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Seeking perfection even in the camaflogue of the broken, twisted and peculiar settings, our innermost desire still remains – finding that perfect story. In th… Read More
2017-11-11 16:04
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There’s only one thing in the world that one should be jealous of: People who have found their one true passion. I know, I am. At a blog meet, a few weeks earlier… Read More
2017-10-27 20:01
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Have you ever tried waiting for the end credits of a movie roll down? The one at the end where names, after names, after names scroll up and an instrumental sound track g… Read More
2017-10-27 15:59
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Only a handful of movies stay for more than a day in the back of your head where characters continue to remain alive . The kind of effect synonymous with finishing the fi… Read More
2017-10-21 16:11
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Empty rooms shout the loudest. On their own. Laced with the echoes of yesteryears. The silences shout louder from the depths of it. There are traces of your laughter. Tho… Read More
2017-10-20 23:06
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Twenty Seven. Turning Twenty Seven. I have always wanted to be an adult. More than anything else when I was a kid. More to lead a restriction-less life and *touchwood* I… Read More
2017-10-19 21:44
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That look of yours. Yes, the same one were you magnify your eyes. The one which makes me feel that they’ll just pop out. That. That’s when I knew. … Read More
2017-10-09 19:53
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It had been a while since I opted for a train for one of my trips. I was excited at the prospect of it and lucky enough to get tickets booked on time. Destination: Dandel… Read More
2017-10-02 04:57
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Waiting for a train in a non-crowded station has a calming effect on you. Or maybe coz, you don’t have much to do. Londa junction is that station today. I know, for… Read More
2017-09-25 17:50
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There are places which emanate a characteristic vibe as their name pops up. Hampi, for me, is one of them. Hampi has been that unchecked item on my ever-expanding ‘… Read More
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