Essays

  • If creativity could speak, what would it say?

    A few days back, I talked about the 11 Days Letter Writing Challenge and how the participants of the challenge spoke to different aspects of life for a message. So, I thought of speaking to my creativity and below, is the message it had.

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  • What 11 days of handwriting letters taught me

    In the beginning of October, I conducted a challenge called the 11 Days Letter Writing Challenge. The objective of the challenge was simple: you had to handwrite eleven letters to yourself over the course of about two weeks.

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  • The quest of the self

    The quest of the self

    Last year, I introduced on my blog something called as Listen to your Heart Song – handwritten notes from your wise child. It has evolved into a newsletter (for now) but thanks to that initiative, people who have known me came to know about a different side of me. A side that was into the

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  • What makes you normal?

    What makes you normal?

    My sister is hearing impaired. I don’t like to talk about it because no matter how much I love her or empathize with her; I will never truly understand what it means to live in her shoes. To live with a disability where one of her senses is absent. 

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  • I am the one I seek

    I am the one I seek

    About a year ago, I was on a lunch cruise on the backwaters of Alleppey where I saw something that I remember to this day. It was the afternoon. We were in a post lunch haze and the kids were playing hide and seek. This boy decided that the space under the cloth covered table

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  • What to do when you feel angry and helpless

    If I had to write an opening to describe 2024, or really the past 5 years, I would probably write: the world is broken. It feels like we’re going through our own version of an apocalypse, a B-grade movie where all tropes have been added. And on most days, I go through such tremendous rage

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  • The food that shaped my life

    For as long as I can remember, food has been my lifeline. It’s been a source of comfort and joy. Nothing lights me up from the inside like when I am thinking, talking or eating food. Not surprisingly, I am surrounded by people who share my love for food.

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