Thinking for yourself
We all go through different stages of an awakening at a point in our life. It’s better to give up a fucked up life now than later. For a man who takes his music seriously, here’s an excerpt of one of my favorit... Read More...
The Science of Daydreaming
I remember the first vivid daydream of mine.
It’s not that I hadn’t imagined before, but I remember the moment when I thought “what if” and then drift away for hours.
I was probably in the first grade and had... Read More...
Apathy, very much
In all these years of being in the United States, the one unaltered feeling underneath it all has been the feeling of not belonging. Most of it is my own doing – building root has never been my priori... Read More...
Living lives our own way
People think they have figured out life. They give you advice. While advising, they think they’re doing you good and this is exactly where everything goes wrong. We don’t know what’s best for us ourselves and h... Read More...
Lightbulb
Treading towards a distant statue perched on top of a hill. A strange feeling of calm overcomes me. Seeing his peaceful composure it leaves you with thoughts. Amidst all that chaos is a being in peace that we f... Read More...
Confessions of Crushaholic
I am Pandora, and this is my box.
It would be an interesting topic, this, everyone confessing about the things they have done for their crushes in the heat (?) of the moment. But then, we wait and we pause, ... Read More...
New you. New me. New year.
Author's note: I wrote this post at the end of 2014 when I was hopeful about 2015 and what it could bring. The fact that it is just as relevant today, tells us something about human nature. Every ... Read More...
Adulting 101 – Losing my religion
It happened one day. Years of fighting with disbelief and suddenly one day, the looming, looking, ever-present, know-it-all god disappeared from above my head.
Growing up, I never had doubt that there was a ... Read More...
It’s OKAY
"When was the last time I finished a book, I ask myself. If I don't check my good-reads account, I don't really remember. I know the last book I finished reading is "Anne of the Island". This I know because... Read More...
Fight Through Depression: If I Can Do It, So Can You
If I can do it, so can you. It was not really alarming at first, since the change was tenuous. But I did notice that my surroundings took a different tone; shadows of nightfall seemed drabber, my mornings had f... Read More...
The Butterfly Flight
He smashed me, thrashed me
and I shrunk
from never ever trying to get out of that trunk
inside the cocoon
I wanted to come out,
wanted to breathe fresh air and shout
but was afraid
that the society was m... Read More...
Infinite Loop
Photo Credit: Zeepack , from Flickr.
An asymptote can meet the axes at infinity. The two parallel lines intersect at infinity and finally, the hidden answer of something divided by zero is “infinity” itse... Read More...
Remember Me
Photo by Aalutamaa
How would people remember me?
As the girl with a mole on her lips?
The one who never failed to keep her kajal undone.
Maybe as the girl who was loud when she was expressing something un... Read More...
The Day He Lived
These god damned dogs! One would begin howling, and then another, and a third, until the air was filled with their screeches and yowls. Nishan had heard of wolves doing that, but then, he mused, dogs belonged t... Read More...
Warmth of a soulmate
Your fragrance spreads away in the small space that we just made ours. You say, you can’t imagine this is the moment that you and I are sharing this glass of tasty red wine. I wished that I was those tiny dropl... Read More...