• Work life balance is a scam #MondayMusings

    I don’t like the term work life balance. It pits work against life: as if you don’t need work to have a life. Or you don’t spend the maximum number of mind space on work, even when you’re supposedly living. It makes you want to strive for an ideal you’re not even sure is possible…

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  • I, Me, Myself

    I, Me, Myself

    Even after 4 years of blogging and being a marketer, the person I cannot market is myself. So I thought I’d write about the Blogging Commandment: Thou shalt promote thyself. Consequently, this post is only going to be about me. Or more accurately, about the 2 ebooks that I have on KDP.

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  • Not a book review: The Singing Hills Cycle

    The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger came down the Mountain – just the name of these books was enough to make me want to dive deep into them, albeit it was a short dive since both the books are about 120 pages long. After seeing the covers, the deal was sealed…

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  • Torment – a micro tale

    The dream is be whatever you want to be.

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  • On writing and being authentic

    Writing is obscene. I don’t know if this is my statement or I read it somewhere but I think writing or being a writer is obscene.

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  • I think we should stop calling them negative emotions

    We always think of jealousy, anger, fear, guilt as negative emotions. In fact there are tables and posts dedicated to what are negative emotions and how you can control them. And yet these emotions are essential to our well-being. An e-course that I’m taking right now called ‘the science of happiness’ also called them negative…

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  • Not a book review: Giovanni’s Room

    The first time I came across the name James Baldwin was when we were discussing Love & Queer Literature sometime in February. I went through that post again [in preparation for writing this one] and I’m surprised to note that though Giovanni’s Room is mentioned in it, it didn’t really make a dent in my…

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