The unbearable lightness of Diwali

It’s that season when firecrackers are back in fashion. In a nation like India, you don’t really need a festival to make some noise. Noise happens to be the most followed religion in the country anyway. Regardless, it’s that time of the year when we begin to hear some…

Ohm ashanti ohm

I really don’t understand this intolerance people are blabbering about. I fully get what that word means but the context is so dragged out that its usage has become a sham now. Especially thanks to the nature of those who are hijacking it for personal gains at the expense of making the nation look…

Amma is typing…

My brother and i got amma on WhatsApp. We thought since i don’t stay with them anymore, it’d be nicer to have a group of our own where we can message each other and share pictures from our daily lives. For some reasons, she didn’t pick up how to upload a picture although she’s fluent in emojis now…

Rising tolerance for nonsense

There’s a debate in place that India is currently more intolerant than ever before. Going by the dominant voices who believe so, it’s pretty obvious that their assertion is more political than social. The epicenter of this argument can be located at the recent Dadri lynching…

Talk to her

A pigeon appeared out of nowhere in our office this morning. The exit door must have been open because the windows are always closed. In its panic to get out, the poor thing (it’s shitload of a bird otherwise) kept crashing its face into the glass window again and again. After half a dozen failed attempts…

When you need help with help

“I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And… I was really… I was alive.”

- Walter White, Breaking Bad (Season 5)

I have a severe case of OCD. The utensils have to be placed in the drawers, one after the other. We have a…

When you stop running

Don’t butterflies feel the burden of their wings? Wings they themselves can’t admire. You often see children chasing these beautiful insects (if mosquitoes wasn’t so keen on eliminating us, it’d have been beautiful too) with no success. They keep doing it repeatedly, hoping they’ll somehow…

Catalysts for catalyst of change

My expertise in design is as limited as Steve Jobs’ pancreas was to his longevity. I’m a copywriter. I wordplay for a living but every once in a while, i encounter situations where i get to peek into the epicness that is design. Well, design is nothing without words to…

Karma could be a dog

We live in an era where the most one can do for the street dogs is let them be. Unbelievable as it may sound, the urban reality is very harsh on the canines, especially the uncollared ones. My grandma used to say that whatever little goodness we attempt, we shouldn’t do it with an intention…