Tippie toe
Today I am not living. Today I am surviving. You will see claw marks from my home till the office. I don’t know why this happens, this …
Birthday Shmirthday
I hate birthdays like I hate holiday trips. A little more I think. Trips, birthdays, convocation, graduation days, haircuts come with such a blind expectation of happiness …
grey and full of sleep
I feel very weird living in this body. It feels like so many people occupy it one after the other, at the same time. Like when you …
A hundred and fifty ways of being on your own
I woke up a little early yesterday. With a bad taste in my mouth. I woke up sad. I am convinced I tasted sadness. This sadness did …
Reading
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read …
Re-raising myself
Remember when in school… Actually, I don’t think it works like this everywhere. Let me start over. When I was in school, I was a cool (only …
Dear ‘I am managing’
Dear ‘I am managing’,Let me tell you, you have it worse than people who suffer. Suffer from clinical depression who cannot get out of bed to buy …
Re-raising myself
2017 is to be different. In a good way. Because I have decided to make it so with the sheer might of my will. 2017 will be …
Contents of your bag and what they mean about you / of borrowed beds
Apart from a book to read, a diary to write, and one to make lists in, I also in my bag carry a green stapler and a …
Happy is a man who lives under my bed
I woke up happy today. No, not happy. I woke up, let’s call it ‘happy but not all that.’ In spite of dreams of humiliation bestowed on …