Category: Words

It’s been three months since I last wrote “for fun”, but my mind’s still been stuck on trying to understand the passage of time – it’s sharp seizure of some moments, and nervous frailty in others. On most days, it feels too fragile to touch, as if the moment I try to grasp its essence,…

This Father’s Day, quit the “maa ke haath ka khana” trope, and ask your father if he wants to cook a meal for you. It doesn’t have to be a made-from-scratch pizza or build-it-yourself tacos, although it wouldn’t hurt to go all out with juicy carnitas and bloody marys (Dad, are you reading?). It just…

How I went from panicking at the sight of coffee to owning more coffee brewing equipment than most people would find necessary (maybe even acceptable) took a while of unravelling but in the end, like any form of introspection, it brought me a teeny-tiny bit closer to identifying my way of thinking, and, in turn,…

If a year ago you asked me what I thought my reaction to the current situation would be, I would tell you that irrationality would rule my world, and that comfort would be a far possibility. But today, I feel an inexplicable calmness. A borderline confidence that I can’t make sense of.

I thought I was good at being by myself, at figuring it out, but here I was, at the end of day 20 of quarantine, panic-stricken and exhausted out of my mind.