Category: Personal Essays
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What race are you running? And why?
Disclaimer: In all honesty, I found this piece tucked away in a dark, dinghy corner of my Notion. So, I decided to put it here. Why let content go to waste? The farthest I have gone from the world as I know it has been simply sitting on the surface of a 7-feet deep pool.…
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I do not ever want to feel stuck in the same place for seemingly endless time
I was born in Gorakhpur, brought up by the Internet. As a kid, school was my first home. However, once I left it, I didn’t go back for five whole years, until recently. It was comforting to go back to the familiarity: the teachers, the staff, the buildings, the sun rising from the East. I…
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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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Loud households: On troubled childhoods
I come from a loud household. And by that, I don’t mean that every family member has an extravagant personality or we love blasting music at parties or that we talk in generally higher pitches than most because we live in a big bungalow. I come from a loud household: which means that when I…
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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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B’s and Cupcakes: An early life-lesson
A story of how I cracked the idea of trying out different things being the key to finding what you love at 12-years-old