Sep 11, 2020On (Indian) Matchmaking And SettlingA few weeks ago, I was on Greatbong’s podcast, talking about Indian Matchmaking. One thing I realized was I hadn’t made it clear why I was on that show. Priyanka, who was the other guest on that podcast, was on there as a professional matchmaker. …Dating9 min read
Jun 21, 2020Short Story: One In SixKarthik refreshed Tinder for the tenth time in fifteen minutes. The last message from Emily was still ‘On my way, see you soon!’, at 5:30. It was 5:55 now. She wasn’t due until six, but he’d been too anxious to stay at his desk after that text. He’d bounded out…Dating7 min read
Jun 11, 2020Yet another “Why Do I Write” essayI came across the Twenty Best Essays On Writing. As I went over them one by one, I found some practical advice, but what stood out to me was the self-importance, the mutual admiration, the feeling of being so unique and interesting. …Writing6 min read
May 21, 2020The End Of The Female Comedian MemoirBossypants — The Beginning It was quite a flutter when I came across 30 Rock in 2009. Shows with female professional leads set in NYC weren’t new to me; I loved and adored Just Shoot Me! and Caroline In The City. But this show was different. Liz Lemon was somehow so much more relatable…Comedy12 min read
Jan 20, 2020“What are you reading?” — Results of a Reading SurveyMy writing group, TL;DR Press always has interesting discussions happening on Slack. One of the recurring topics is about the disappearing, diminishing market for fiction, especially short fiction. Every time a small press or a magazine closes, we wonder if fiction as we know it is doomed in the future…Reading9 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 13, 2020Science Away Your Long DaysWhy I Care About Long Hours With the New Year, I’ve been wondering about how to use my time better, as is everyone else. I want to write my novels faster, and I want to be better at my work. Time management has never really figured in my top 10 skills. Or even my top 50. …Entrepreneurship11 min read
Dec 19, 2019So You Want To Be A Writer…Origin Story I have always wanted to be a writer. I’ve always written stories, starting from stories where my first-grade teacher died multiple horrible deaths. But somewhere down the line, my fiction just didn’t work, though everyone who read it said they liked how I wrote. Sometime in 2014, I had a…Writing20 min read
Nov 21, 2019Marissa Orr is ‘Not Like Other Girls’The Remarkable Premise I came across this AMA yesterday morning on Reddit, and, it was a ‘remarkable’ premise, as Cal Newport calls it — It’s a premise a lot of people with remark on. And we did. Oh we did. In fact, I am remarking to you about it right now. The AMA…Women In Tech17 min read
Nov 12, 2019I’m Over Modern LoveThe Show Modern Love is an Amazon Prime show now, and I’m the target audience, I suppose, as an overeducated, overthinking millennial woman. I couldn’t make it past four episodes, and that, I withstood only because I wanted to make it all the way through to the Tina Fey episode. As a…Writing9 min read
Oct 28, 2019When Should You Sell Your Idea?I found this paper titled When To Sell Your Idea — Theory And Evidence From The Movie Industry, and I simply had to read it. You can too [PDF link]. I’m always interested in learning more about the ideas economy and pathways to success in open marketplaces, and I’m curious…Movies11 min read
