Sneak Peek Into The Star Whisperer


Everyday

 In 2019, I sat for a month and wrote a YA novel.  It seemed to write itself, and after it was done, I sent a few letters to publishers when the manuscript wasn’t fully formed. The expected rejections set me back, and I pushed the novel away.  But my friend didn’t let go. She kept […]

February 14, 2023

The Joy Of Proxy Sites


Everyday

Have you ever used a proxy site? I remember having vaguely used those many years ago. For reasons I can no longer remember. Perhaps, it was to access a blocked URL. These days, we have proxy lives. We present a facade on social media – that’s our proxy ego. One that is carefully curated to […]

February 2, 2023

Running The Finish Line


Everyday

Sometimes, running isn’t about the run at all.  I spent the first Sunday of January running 42km in the bone-crunching humidity of Chennai. I sailed through the beginning, thought I was a rockstar in the middle, and crumbled in desperation at the end, wondering how I would ever reach the finish line.  You see…a perfect […]

January 18, 2023

The Joy Of Play


Everyday, Musings

Whenever I work from home, I work from a room that looks out to a basketball court, coconut trees, a meandering pathway, and slumbering green grass. This is not as idyllic as it sounds. The basketball court is often raucous, the dribbling making me feel like someone is thumping my head relentlessly, again and again. […]

January 15, 2023

The Stalk


Everyday

You can stalk my site. 108 pageviews In one session. Dec 14th. Time: 2pm onward. You spend more time on the pages where I mentioned everything I had gone through, trying to find ways to damn me. You won’t succeed. You read on and on. A relentless read of all pages. Pages 2. Pages 3. […]

December 21, 2022

Sending You Hope


Everyday

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being” — Hafez (via Deeyah Khan) And Bangalore decided to show me today. I ran to the tunes of this unexpectedly foggy morning today. Coconut trees wrapped in dew. Skies shrouded in a pale light. It […]

October 5, 2022

The Anatomy Of A Call


Everyday

This page has received a fair number of visits from someone. The last was Saturday, Feb 25, at about 18:00 hours. Hence, the content of this page has been hidden. What happened is real. What happened is pain and anguish, and I won’t allow someone to tramp over this, in their bid to protect one […]

September 18, 2022

Vulnerability Is Also This


Everyday

This is what vulnerability can look like. I don’t have much of a social media presence. I keep my Instagram fiercely private. FB is deactivated, and I use Goodreads only to mark my book reading. LinkedIn is the only social media network I use regularly. And posting a photo of myself online takes all my […]

May 18, 2022

Being With My Favorite Co-Worker


Everyday

This is not my regular post. I have had a strangely suffocating week. It wasn’t just the weather. This week marked a year of living with long Covid. A week that came on the back of strange encounters with writers, friends, and family. It was a week that came with the usual client shenanigans: Ghosting […]

April 22, 2022