Nice notebooks and empty pages, These I've had no shortage of Now or yesterday Or really at any stage. Just been waiting for the right...

I am so glad that these markets are still open and alive, hustling and bustling. Alive is the word that springs to mind. Old wine in an...

An old paper I wrote for a critical writing course a few years ago. Rediscovered it and found it was still something I could stand and...

You know how sometimes life finds a way to throw at you the exact thing you were looking for and all you can do is catch it? No, actually...

How many of us Go through life Not once paying attention To our every next step Waltzing through life on auto pilot I did too, I was no...

Its official I'm older now. I broke my ankle last week You won't imagine how What daredevil-tightrope-acrobatic-foolhardy feat was I up...

An attempt at gathering hope after reading the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report on Climate Change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Those who put pineapple on pizza And those who think that’s not absolutely wrong Economists who think the market works And the...

When anyone says “deepest, darkest, dash” Your mind immediately dashes to me Locked up I might be today But I might yet one day be free...

humanity is a joke jokes are like stories stories needs a beginning, a middle, and an end ends, as they say, justify the means means,...

I realised recently, That a lot of what I write is referential. Calling to other things in ways even I don't see coming. Sometimes even...

One step forward, two steps back, That's the way it goes sometimes. Write everyday. Go silent for a year. Play gigs every week. Play no...

I wonder Why it is so easy to tell other people what to do, But a whole other thing when you have to do it too. You seem so wise when...

Growing up in India, specifically Tamil Nadu, I grew up with a very specific idea of what a television show (or TV serial as it was and...

When globalisation began, we were told that we now live in a global village. That the world as we knew it had shrunk. No that it had...

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I don’t know how to feel like a colour. I don’t know what colours feel like. I mean, I know what...

Okay, slightly expensive, but still. In the larger scheme of things, it cost me almost nothing, but it remains priceless. Before I tell...

“Dummm-duh-du-dumm-du-dummm-aaaahhhh-tisshhhhh-pssssssssss-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh” The sudden cacophony—of screams tangled in...

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your...

I am 29 now. And so it begins. There’s only so long one can outrun and successfully dodge the societal clock. It catches up to you...