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Is motherhood really that beautiful?
So a close friend asked me this last year. Is motherhood really that beautiful? We became friends very unexpectedly. She became my neighbour and somewhere in those first few exchanges, something just clicked. I still remember the very first time we actually talked. A few minutes when she came with her family to visit the house. We simply introduced ourselves and something about it stayed with both of us. Then life moved, as it does. They shifted, we became friends, I moved af
May 28


Your Grandfather's Hunger Is Living in Your Nervous System: Generational Trauma
How generational trauma quietly wires the nervous system and why the tremors you see might be decades in the making. Some realisations arrive quietly. So quietly, that if left unattended, they dissolve back into the noise of the mind without ever being fully understood. Not through research or reasoning, but in an ordinary moment, a conversation that stretches for many hours, a long pause between sentences, a face that tells you something the words are carefully avoiding. Rec
May 5


A pain so intense... (Jabalpur Cruise Accident)
the image of a mother holding her child till their last breath while drowning broke something within all of us so heartbreaking, yet so powerful what must she have been thinking how scared they would have been yet how safe the child must have felt in her arms even then, she would have tried to soothe his fear and pain holding him close to her heart the breath may have shallowed the love didn't the resolve to keep him safe didn't what were her last thoughts to her child maybe
May 5


Curation Matters More Than Creation
We are entering a strange moment in human history. For the entirety of human history, the harder part was to make or create things. Writing took time. Designing required skill and expensive tools. Research meant hours in a library. Creation was a slow process and because it was slow and difficult, it was valuable. That is now changing. Today, anyone with an internet connection and a few good prompts can generate articles, designs, summaries, music, and marketing copy within m
Mar 9


Something Big Is Happening And We Don’t Fully Understand It
The last AI related article I wrote was in June 2023. And in the light speed development of AI, that time already feels like ‘ancient history’. Read that again, slowly, to understand the gravity of situation. This isn’t some dramatic thought from my imagination, these are the words of Matt Shumer. In his blog, “Something Big Is Happening,” he talks in detail about the pace at which AI is evolving, a pace which most of us barely understand. And honestly, it is terrifying, to s
Feb 17


Art Truly Transcends Time!
The other day, I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art. It was my second time, first time solo. Why do I mention that? Simply...
Jan 7, 2025


'Another Sort of Freedom' to Live Lightly by Gurucharan Das
My very first thoughts after skimming through the initial pages of Gurucharan Das's memoir were simply about what an amazing writer he...
Jun 4, 2024


On The Other Side Of AI - A Utopia Or A Dystopia?
A layman’s perspective, who is thrilled and paranoid, in equal parts about AI. And the genie is out of the bottle! This could not be...
Jun 6, 2023


Take up the courage to “Show Your Work”!
After reflecting for months, I finally decided to publish my website. And one of the motivations behind letting my writer’s soul free is...
Feb 12, 2022
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