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Continue reading →: Requiem for Memories
I tend to forget much of my early childhood. I vaguely remember taking part in those activities, but not the details, and especially not the sensations I felt while experiencing them. Some of my fondest and most exciting memories are among the victims of this forgetting. During my formative years,…
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Continue reading →: The Eye of The StormTV screen flickered with urgency, weather maps with swirling ominous spirals, anchors speaking too quickly, panicky, words like Cyclone Ockhi clubbed with a rare supermoon, a storm prediction. India’s coastline, they warned, was bracing for massive swells and unpredictable tides. In my father’s office at Delhi, this news played on…
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Continue reading →: My BirthI wanted to be born. For it was a challenge, to prove myself, my womanhood. I knew I would be perfect! The GOAT!! So, I leapt into the sufferings, the nine months journey, through the thorn-laden road, to greatness, all alone. Rather a cake walk, I felt. For my inner…
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Continue reading →: Sacred Longing: An Inquiry Into Belief“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for false hopes.” — Albert Camus A repost of this piece by Dhruv feels timely, especially with all that’s happening around us today. (~Saahas) Across every era, on every continent, in every culture we’ve ever known — religion has existed.It…
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Continue reading →: The Legend of Zelda on the SwitchThe Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s most iconic gaming franchises. Its tenure on the Switch took it to an entirely new direction from its previous titles, giving it a massive open world that focused on exploration and discovery just as much as story. This made the two mainline…
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Continue reading →: A Game of Thrones Book ReviewI had fallen off on reading fantasy novels for nearly a year. A year is enough to make one forget. But a couple of months back, when my schedule was clearer than it had been for months, I decided to read a novel, before I forget the appeal and the…
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Continue reading →: Crawl Through- A TeaserThe following is a teaser from my book, Crawl Through, published on BriBooks: The nigh was chill, a wet kind of cold ensued from the river. The riverbank had thick mud that slowed their gait. Every now and again, they would hear the owl’s hoot or the wolf’s howl from…
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Continue reading →: The Last Light in Room 27The boy never had been much of anything. Not the one remembered. Never the one noticed. He was simply there to exist. To fill out the crowd. To be another face to pass by and forget. He spent his days labouring away at unimportant work in the isolated void of…
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Continue reading →: Last SundayBy Liji Nair On this last Sunday of the year,the calendar exhales slowlyTime loosens its shoulders,and the world asks us gently to do the same.Slowdown,Let the rush fall quiet at your feet.Notice the small things still breathing around youwarm hands, shared jokes,the simple miracle of being here.Love a little louder.Not…
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Continue reading →: Brewing Thoughts Amid TorqueYou don’t expect to slow down inside a place built for speed. And yet, that’s exactly what happened this weekend, inside a BMW motorcycle showroom in Bangalore. The moment I stepped in, the space spoke in horsepower. Heavy BMW bikes stood poised like restrained predators, white, metallic, muscular, purposeful. One…

