Hello! Living in Mumbai for an upward of 30 years, I’m quite familiar with the three seasons this city produces: Hot, not hot and oh look it’s raining today. The latter is usually met with delight or a groan depending on your location under a roof and your future plans…

Hello. March always feels so long. Maybe because it sits right next to February and in contrast March comes out as the bloated one? Or maybe it has something to do with the financial year ending in India? Everyone seems to be on edge. …

But when are they not? — Hello! As a child in the 90s, there were times when I had to ask my father for permission. It was mostly to do with school picnics or some such similar outings. My father always said, “No, times are bad.” This was such an immediate and recurring answer that I…

Recommending some of my favourite animated stories from recent years — In all the Writers Retreats I host, there is one evening dedicated to movie night. We all sit, grab our snacks, pour our drinks and watch short films. It’s a great time to get everyone to watch and study a single piece of storytelling together and later discuss it, and…

Includes song recommendation’s for the end of 2021 — Hello! My fingers are frozen as I write this to you. I’m sitting in the Himalayan Foothills in a cottage on top of a hill. The temperature has been around 3–6 degrees and all I see outside my window is white. The white of the clouds. It’s not snowing yet…

Includes Book recommendations — Hi there. If you are noticing a change in the layout of this newsletter, that’s because I’ve shifted to Substack (finally!). I’ve been meaning to make this change for a while now, but I’ve been procrastinating. There is nothing quite as satisfying as procrastination, right? To while away the hours…

Newsletter #17 — Note: This newsletter was sent on the 30th of October to all my subscribers. Hi there. How are things? It’s the time of the year I hate the most — Diwali season. Don’t mind me. I always have a lot going on during these months and Diwali sort of comes…

Newsletter — Septmeber 2021 — Hello. If you’ve been following me on my socials, you know I turned 30 in September. I don’t usually celebrate my birthday, and I didn’t this year either — not in the conventional sense. But turning 30 has taught me one thing: Not caring about what others think or say…