Survival

Where do you go when emotions overpower you? Whom do you open up to when the very act of breathing through the lump in your throat feels like the end of the world?Haven’t they made an app for it yet? where the sad could connect with similar sads and talk about their pain. The break-up…

Wallflower – #BangaloreDays Week-3

Having spent a few days at new work, glued to the screen, I remember my colleagues, by the click of their heels and the press of their keys. From the corner of my desk, I smell the coffee junkie sipping their hot beverage, the Swiggy genie munching on some crunchy snack, the tattoo freak churning…

“Adjustment” #BangaloreDays -Week 2

-Week 2- “I just feel so alone, even when I’m surrounded by other people.” The more I leap through my life, the more I grow into a real-life facsimile of whom I consider my cinematic counterpart: Charlotte from Lost in Translation (2003). A lonely spirit stuck in life. Wherever you go, whatever you do, uncertainty…

A Goodbye Toast to 2020

Phew. It’s been quite a HELL of a year, isn’t it? The year of Am I Audibles, Netflix minus chills, Couch potatoes and whatnot, 2020 gave us Millennials and Gen Z our own version of We-survived-THIS-and-THAT-what-did-you-do Ted Talk, the one that’s been performed by Desi parents since forever. Acknowledging the smaller privileges that I have…

Travels with Charley

Get on board to savour the United States of America of 1960s on this super exciting road trip with John Steinbeck. Alongside Charley, his four-legged companion, Steinbeck sets out to explore the country from head to toe in his custom made camper truck named Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse. What awaits them ahead is a…

The Trial – Franz Kafka

“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau Written in 1914, The Trial examines a series of unfortunate happenings in the life of a bank official named Josef K. who gets arrested abruptly on his thirtieth birthday. The protagonist finds it absurd that no one cares to specify the nature of…

Spirit of the Season – Brian Lamont

Spirit of the Season by Brian Lamont is the kind of book you want to read to your kids while curling up on the couch near fireside on a chilly Christmas eve. Crafted out of the legend of Santa Claus and the historical figure of St. Nicholas, the novel as a historical fiction takes the…

Quarantine Day- Sorry, I’ve lost count

Quarantine Day- Sorry, I’ve lost count..Grown into these four walls keeping me companyso close I don’t dare push asidetheir dusty floral drapeslet alone welcome the first hour of lightknocking on my rustic window.A good old friend of mine,he waits for a while and leavestaking my silent response to his heart..Time had frozen inside the loops…

Jack of all trades, Master of None.

“Jack of all trades, Master of none.” If there is a catchphrase that could capsule my 23 years of existence then this is it. Being a Jack in a world ruled by masters means to be constantly reminded of not being the best. No matter how good you are in your fields of interest, it’s…

Requiem for a toxic love potion

“Love is blind” is no joke, dear friend. Once you go under the spell, the visibility, on an average would be no better than that on a smoggy winter morning in Delhi. You don’t get to see a proper vision of your significant other let alone your reflection on them. Nevertheless, La vie en rose…