On being chronically depressed and suicidal

on the life I could have lost, on the lives we could still be losing

A few days ago I told a roomful of people — both strangers and friends — that I am chronically depressed and…

Growing older

on loving the process of ageing

It seems like there is an aversion to growing old. Crossing over to one’s 30s would symbolize the loss of youth or people would quip that they are ‘forever 25’, as though there is something ghastly about being older than 29.

Break glass ceilings

For most of us in the first world, we are living in conditions that have made the act of creation so easy — a random…

Defying powerlessness

The past couple of weeks were difficult to endure for some of us. It was very tempting to disengage from reality — all that anger, sadness, pointing-of-fingers, apathy and curl up in my own safe comfortable space, at least for now.