Maybe because….. — Solemnly, I crossed the threshold of my social capacity and entered the room full of exuberant individuals for an informal gathering and dinner. The tiny living space was reverberating with laughter and excitement, contrary to the stillness and quiet lingering outside. …

Into the minglings of the clouds and trees. — After years of forged stability, I finally moved to a new place with my mind overflowing with anticipations and expectations of adventures. I did all that a human brimming with excitation would do. I caught the earliest train and reached the lodgings before many others. Still, a few beat me…

Run, Sneak, and Go offline. — I glided through the corridors of a magnificent building, endowed with nature displays and lost in contemplations and revelations. I was interrupted by an unknown who wanted to be known immediately. With a few exchanges of sentences and expressions, the unknown, wanting to be known, declared what I was, how…

Why can’t you take a break? — Even though I have recently realised and acknowledged that I practise you, it seems like I have known you forever. Like you have always been there, dormant, unostentatious, hidden, but alive and secretly persistent. When I first learnt about you, it was almost like discovering introversion, minus the comfort and…

A drive to be incredibly stupid — Are you a person who is a friend with only a few or a person who’s everyone’s friend? Do you instantly take your friend’s side when they involve themselves in a kerfuffle? Or do you side with your friend but continue your “friendship” with whom your friend’s kerfuffle happened? Do…

2023!!! — We welcome the new year with an air of exuberance and promise and twinkling lights. We exchange smiles and wishes, and hugs at midnight. We also reminisce over the happenings of the passing year. We think of the highs and lows and the accomplished goals and failing resolutions. We wonder…

Second chances and ice cream of hope. — I have a few stories to tell. Few small ones, some transcending the boundaries of time and others happening around the corner of today. These stories have ushered a spectrum of feelings, thoughts, conclusions, tears, and laughs when they happened and even afterward. That’s the beauty of personal stories; they…

A rambling of chaos — This rambling is going to be tricky and weirdly chaotic. That’s because it’s you. How can anything be straight and simple if you’re involved? For starters, look at how you confuse us through the thick and thinness of our lives. Through potholes and smooth roads of our lives. Sometimes, you…

A glance at our photo gallery with limited quantity and tattered and shiny frames would falsely suggest that the greyish seas were the central part of our life. They were, but also, they weren’t. My mother, brother, and I were only related to the mighty sea through my father. …