Category: Personal Essays
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On yesterday.
Goooooood morning, sunshines! It is morning in my part of the world. I have my PS-Cold Brew, left home in just 40 mins, little traffic, finished the YC video, sorted most of the mini-roadblocks on Daily DD things and I. AM. HAPPY. Yesterday was Ganpati Day 1. I ended up visiting a bunch of people.…
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What did you last finish doing?
Hayyyiiieee! I am really tired right now. I woke up around 7-ish. Had an okay-ish day. Emotionally – great. Am I happy with what I got done? Not so much. Got a little drenched in the morning and a total of 12 minutes late which really irked me. I don’t want to be so annoyed…
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Che La Luna and other things
Hi, here are some thoughts. See you, dear reader. Love, AK! Fun fact: The featured image is of a boat on Lake Como. I am quite obsessed with Como lately.
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Check-in: 13/07.
It is 2:28 AM right now. I have to be up early-ish for a morning flight tomorrow. So I decided I’d not sleep at all. My brain works crazy. I’m in Bangalore for a couple of days so in all probability checking-in with myself won’t be happening. And because I’m up anyhow, I thought I’d…
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A great adventure <3
These are MY people. One year back, I stumbled upon an eccentric man’s website. So I tweeted him a hello-let’s-do-something-together. That is how I met Saurabh Garg, Chandni Menda and Pooja Sahatiya. And the rest of C4E of course. We’re a village that way. Thing is, C4E is THE VILLAGE it takes. The village it takes to build things. To build a life.…
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One year later: This piece is probably too honest to be on the Internet – pt 1
Every single promise that you make to yourself and do not keep gnaws on you. Chisels you into a loser. I strongly believe in this. So every time I pledge to some form of consistency or discipline and fail to live up to my word, I lose one tiny unit of trust in my ability…
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5/21 things I unlearnt at 21
Mental clutter/Commentary: Hello, hello! Good morning 🙂 When I went to bed last night, I thought I would wake up and write something titled – Postcards from my 21st Birthday. However, having woken up a little late, doing a v smol workout and making myself a really pretty breakfast, I think I do not want…
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A lesson in observation: Creating merch for DD
One of my favourite, super-exciting projects under Decoding Draupadi has been creating Merch. I have a number of personal reasons why but this piece is not about that. This is about a tiny, little and very-obvious reminder that sat right in front of me all this while but only clicked yesterday. I don’t know how…
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No home to write back to
I am sitting on my desk. It is against a giant window on the 8th floor overlooking a small jungle of sorts. When I look down, I see trees bearing yellow and pink flowers. Shadows of crows and pigeons crawl the land. Occasionally, I also spot a dog or a cat looking for food. What…