Anecdotes
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I have never been a music person. I enjoy listening to songs but I cannot have them in the background while I do other work because then I’m not listening to the lyrics and that I feel is the height of disrespect to an artist. Just listening makes me restless so I can sometimes go…
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I read a tweet recently that said: I miss the rawness of people’s emotions that came out during the pandemic. Where everyone was sharing how fucked up their mental health had become, how stressed they were, blurring of home-gender-work lines, etc. Now that things are settling and opening up, people have gone back to running…
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Living with a Moradabadi father and a Delhiite mother [these are important adjectives for them mind you], I have been intimately familiar with asafoetida or as we like to call it hing since I was a child. Even before I knew how hing was used to cook my favourite daal or alu ki sabji or…
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To the rotis that puff I have no idea what technique I need to use to get you to puff. I have tried all and I have no consensus. But I know that you do not perform under pressure, do you puffed roti? Any time I need to prove that I know how to make…
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Because I am also mainstream and if the numbers in Bombay are any indication, all has gone to shit in any case. Might as well clock down the lessons learnt before aliens decide they have had enough of our incompetence, hatred and violence and decide that colonizing humans is the only viable option to save…
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I am 30 years old and I live with my parents. It is mostly out of choice, partly because they live in Bombay and why would I leave this city to live somewhere else, and 100% because I don’t have the finances to afford living separately. Before I share by two-bits on how to live…
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Let me start with my credentials. I have been working from home for the past 3 and a half years. The one question I always get asked a lot is – don’t you miss interacting with people. To this I mostly respond with a flippant I don’t like people so I don’t miss talking to them.…
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