Taking a break
I took a break from work a few weeks ago because I wasn’t/am not well. I used to wake up every day, check myself like one checks …
Food Feelings
I’ve tried to avoid writing. I cook instead. It’s less introspection. But introspection has a way of catching up with you no matter how much you avert …
Random advice/a guiding principle: pick the right people and everything else will take care of itself.
Before my very first job’s salary negotiation meeting, I called mama, let’s call him N, looking for words of wisdom like I usually do when in unfamiliar …
More of myself / 28
I have survived yet another birthday. I am getting better at birthdays and surviving the cakes/”what is the plan’s/what did you do’s/when are you getting married?”s! If …
Things to do/Nudge
Learn Sign languageEverytime I talk about this, people tell me they’ve wanted to do this. It is super easy and you can get the basics within a …
In praise of shamelessness
I went to a supermarket in loose pants and papa’s T-shirt. R said she wishes she was as confident as me. I don’t think I am confident, …
My experiments with food
I started cooking recently; cooking with the rigor and fervor of an uncle who has been cooking all his life and has stories to tell about the …
Of living rooms
I never felt settled while I lived in Pune. Unsettled-like one feels when one lives in a girls’ hostel that closes at 9 but one is out …
Garbage person
I find great comfort in words, beautifully crafted strings of them. To imagine people taking the pain to add to them the fragrant flowers of meter, melody, …
Office Office
Last night I realized that my to-do list is called ‘College Things’ and the default text that is sent if I reject a call is ‘I am …