12th May, 2013 Sundarrajan is another computer engineer staying in Bangalore with his parents. Contrary to the polite disagreement of his peers, he supposes he is tall, dark and handsome. He also likes to think of himself a wise man. Since everyone on facebook was talking about the significance of the second Sunday of May [Read full article...]
(This is an experience sharing post but eventually I get to the point) – I was born and brought up in Udupi, the place where lord Sri Krishna is said to have turned from east to west for his great devotee Kanakadasa. The Udupi hotels all around the country are supposed to have origins here. [Read full article...]
– If you wake up tomorrow and decide that you don’t like the phenomenon of gravity, and then decide you are going to live as if it does not exist, well, some bad things might happen to you. If you are going to hop over from this building to that, with the assumption that gravity [Read full article...]
I love the movie Into the Wild. It is a movie based on the adventure story of Christopher McCandless. If you haven’t watched, you must or at least read the book. And in the movie this one moment stands out, my favorite moment – the end, when he writes – Happiness [is] only real when [Read full article...]
This post is not the one where I fool you in the end. This one is part real and part fabricated. To what degree, is left to your imagination – – One reason I hated first few days at my college: I had to wake up as early as 7 and run to college to [Read full article...]
There is this song in my playlist. When it starts to play, it feels like time takes a jump from driving a train to a cycle. Sitting on the cycle, time starts to peddle at its gentle-iest speed. I stop doing. My eyelids shut. My focus goes on the breathe and I gently let it [Read full article...]
– “Sunday 6PM, Kalmane Coffee at Forum mall” she said. Your first time. You are excited. You are nervous too. More than anything you don’t want to piss her off on your first date. You know you can’t be certain about the weekend traffic in Bangalore, hence, plan to reach there 30 minutes early. God’s [Read full article...]
My biggest fear of writing here is you’ll stop reading me. What if I suck? What if you don’t like what I write? It is counter intuitive. But then, there is something that overpowers me – the fear of rejection. Even though I had relatively more personal work the real reason was resistance of my [Read full article...]
It seems obvious. Why would you even ask it? Probably you would even close this tab once you realize the question that I am asking today. Why should you send your kids to school? Three months ago, I met this confident young lady Janani at the film making workshop that I took part in. “I [Read full article...]
This essay refers to some images hence more readable when viewed with them. If you are seeing this in an email then click to view in a new tab. — I am terrible at drawing. I wanted to get rid of this ineptitude. The belief that I could never-draw-well was so firmly grounded in my [Read full article...]
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