Space

City Street with A View

Who owns the city streets? The cars? The traffic cones? The cables? The sprawling stalls? The cows? The ditches? The bollards? Cities are unique in their context, and so are their streets. The strips of…

Dining at the Table – a Family Hangout

The fragrance of the jasmines in my mother’s gajra wisps between the lingering aroma of the tadka. The dosa crunches quietly under my fingertips…

Portrait of a Garden

Transitioning from spring to autumn in fifteen hours flat, neatly avoiding the heat, what’s not to love? Isn’t this what the birds and the rich do – fly off to cooler pastures during summer? So why does she have butterflies?

Love of Rocks – An Unnoticed Friendly Attachment

I was one of those children that collected small rocks that caught my eye, whether on the beach or along a country path. It could seem strange to have a sentimental attachment to a rock…

The Bugs and Us – Who Bugs Whom

They fall from the sky, emerge from the ground, fly across your face, crawl up your back. Bugs that fly, flies that sit, spits the spittlebug, and thus comes spring! We live around them, and they live around us.

The List

Four rooms, two apartments, and three cities back, I started jotting it down while procrastinating at my umpteenth part-time job…the list had fattened up on my wrung-out experiences.

Grocery Shopping – Series of Everyday Decisions

Grocery shopping is often a favorite example to explain Decision-Making theories as it lends itself rather aptly to their premise. The context – a sterile supermarket or a bustling local market?

Office Below Ground Level

Walking through the main hallway. This place is enormous. It is rush hour, and yet it looks deserted. People just vanish behind the sandstone pillars and paneled wooden doors that stand from floor to ceiling.

A Truly Free Education – In Substance and Form

This is not a personal essay as there is no extraordinary story to share, crisis to resolve, or voice to be heard. Yet, it is about me – the person I fleetingly look at, mostly through the corner of my eyes, living her everyday.

We drive west with the sun on our back and music in our car

This deceptively casual entertainment involves the complicated organization of the sounds and tracks to influence the mood inside…

The Commute I don’t mind

Today while waiting at the station for the rain to stop, I got some freshly fried savories packed from one of the station shops. The swaying waft of that now, in the bag slung through the front handle of the bicycle,

Street-With-A-View

City Street with A View

Who owns the city streets? The cars? The traffic cones? The cables? The sprawling stalls? The cows? The ditches? The bollards? Cities are unique in their context, and so are their streets. The strips of…

Dining

Dining at the Table – a Family Hangout

The fragrance of the jasmines in my mother’s gajra wisps between the lingering aroma of the tadka. The dosa crunches quietly under my fingertips…

Portrait-of-a-Garden

Portrait of a Garden

Transitioning from spring to autumn in fifteen hours flat, neatly avoiding the heat, what’s not to love? Isn’t this what the birds and the rich do – fly off to cooler pastures during summer? So why does she have butterflies?

Love-Rocks

Love of Rocks – An Unnoticed Friendly Attachment

I was one of those children that collected small rocks that caught my eye, whether on the beach or along a country path. It could seem strange to have a sentimental attachment to a rock…

The-Bugs-and-Us-–-Who-Bugs-Whom-

The Bugs and Us – Who Bugs Whom

They fall from the sky, emerge from the ground, fly across your face, crawl up your back. Bugs that fly, flies that sit, spits the spittlebug, and thus comes spring! We live around them, and they live around us.

List-Feature

The List

Four rooms, two apartments, and three cities back, I started jotting it down while procrastinating at my umpteenth part-time job…the list had fattened up on my wrung-out experiences.

Grocery-Shopping

Grocery Shopping – Series of Everyday Decisions

Grocery shopping is often a favorite example to explain Decision-Making theories as it lends itself rather aptly to their premise. The context – a sterile supermarket or a bustling local market?

Office-Below-Ground-Level

Office Below Ground Level

Walking through the main hallway. This place is enormous. It is rush hour, and yet it looks deserted. People just vanish behind the sandstone pillars and paneled wooden doors that stand from floor to ceiling.

A-Truly-Free-Education–In-Substance-and-Form

A Truly Free Education – In Substance and Form

This is not a personal essay as there is no extraordinary story to share, crisis to resolve, or voice to be heard. Yet, it is about me – the person I fleetingly look at, mostly through the corner of my eyes, living her everyday.

We-drive-west-Online-lifestyle-essay

We drive west with the sun on our back and music in our car

This deceptively casual entertainment involves the complicated organization of the sounds and tracks to influence the mood inside…

Daily-Commute

The Commute I don’t mind

Today while waiting at the station for the rain to stop, I got some freshly fried savories packed from one of the station shops. The swaying waft of that now, in the bag slung through the front handle of the bicycle,

Writing Is the New Reading

Anybody can write. I believe it as much as I believe that nobody is boring or that we could love anyone. Are people writing more? I believe so.