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You Can’t Be Miserable All The Time
If you Google the title of this article, you will be led to Quora and Reddit queries, but also credible sources talking about support for mental health issues. With this piece, I do not intend to discredit those with mental health issues, diagnosed or otherwise. I am not one of you, and I don’t know… Continue reading
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Reflections of the Week – Week 22
Starting this week, I will make my weekly reflections public, while keeping some critical, identifiable details confidential, of course. This is primarily to hold myself accountable as I start practising weekly reflections, and also to have an incentive to do so, which will help me maintain it. What are the Tasks I Completed Last Week?… Continue reading
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Using AI for ‘Art’ Makes You a Loser
I reactivated my Twitter account after 10 days only to be greeted by the absolute disrespect towards art all over my timeline. There was an influx of people using ChatGPT to generate Studio Ghibli-esque versions of their pictures. Why does this suck? Using Gen AI for ‘art’ does not make you an artist because you… Continue reading
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Entertainment as a Distraction: Part I
When I started writing about this subject, there were multiple lines of thought that I was chasing. I wanted to talk about how people have stopped reading books and are getting their fill of “information” from half-baked, short, dopamine-inducing audio-visual online sources such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. I also wanted to introduce… Continue reading
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Recommendations from 2024
I am glad to have experienced art in its many forms in 2024. A little late but here are my recommendations with fewer words and more ratings across different formats. None of these recommendations are ranked. Top 5 films that I watched in Special mentions: The Boy and The Heron, Kokomo City, and How to… Continue reading
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Goa Diaries – October 2024
I spent the last week of October in Goa with a friend. This was my first proper holiday as an adult — one that had been a long time coming. In this post, I want to talk about how we spent a week in Goa, some recommendations, what we planned but couldn’t do, and what… Continue reading
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Why Did I Quit My Job?
I am challenging myself to write daily for the next week (7 days) and post whatever I write on this blog. Today, I want to write about my previous work experience, the second one in my career, and why I quit after two years without another offer lined up. On 24th July 2024, I met… Continue reading
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What I read in September…
Ever since I quit my job in July of this year, I have been spending a lot of my time reading. Consider this as a kind of reconnection with one of my most favourite things in the world to do. In comparison to the last couple of months, even years, I have been able to… Continue reading
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Does Grief Ever End?
I have been pondering the notion of one carrying their grief around for a long time. Recently, I came across the poem, sorrow is a promise, by Sanna Wani and the following lines stayed with me: Grief is not a useful thing to begin with and neither am I — so here we are, mourning… Continue reading
You Are Spring 