Category: Daily Writings
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What I learnt in Jan: Creative Bullshitting and Work systems
I procrastinate. A lot. And I am extremely embarrassed about it. When I list out my life goals today, I say things like “I want to be a UN representative, I want to be a sustainability and feminism leader, I want to be a reef cultivator, I want a certain $140 Million house and whatnot.”…
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If you can google it, it’s a stupid question.
I was at a beautiful dinner table the other day when a friend said something about not asking tiny, technical questions you can simply Google the answers to. It hit me then – Knowing when, what and how to Google is a superpower, an unfair advantage in disguise. My Googling journey began when I got…
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Leg piece for the men: Petty patriarchy
When on a lunch date my friend served me the leg piece of our Achaari Chicken Tikka Masala, recollections of an old childhood memory flashed before me. On the days chicken was cooked, I remember the leg piece being saved for my father or my brother. On rare occasions, it would be mine even. But…
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A friend told me this
I will start this piece with an excerpt from a writing-my-heart-out session I did 24 hours ago. “I have tried to take my college episode well but god knows it I am struggling in my own ways. I want to be ‘Oh-I-will-make-the-best-of-this’ but all I feel is a sense of time passing faster than I…
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Pivoting: How to deal with rock-bottoms
If there is one thing I have 100% learnt last year, it is To Pivot. Chop, chop, pivot. I am a dreamer, which goes to say I am a planner. Sometimes (read: secretly all the time) anally so. And hence, when plans go off-track and dreams seem to die, I find myself crumbling on the…
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On dreaming big
If I began to count the number of times I have heard people around me say, “That is WAY too big of a goal. People like us could never.” I would keep counting till the end of time. As a kid, I would find comments like these discouraging. Today, I question them back, “Well, then…