Category: Life

  • The Earliest Memory I Have

    Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Bob Dylan Today, I was talking to a friend about bad memories from the past, about how traumatic past memories were. My friend shared a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien in relation to her point as well, which really struck me: I will not walk…

  • How am I brave?

    Today’s Bloganuary prompt is interesting – it asks this question out in the open: How am I brave? The first thought that went through my mind, as I saw the prompt was: Am I brave? Am I even brave to start thinking about how brave I am? How about zero bravery? Is that an answer?…

  • Hello 2023!

    Behold, it’s 2023 already! Here in India, as I write this, the first day of the year is almost over – it’s close to 11 PM on January 1st. 2022 – what a year! The year was a heady mix of highs and lows. After two long years of the pandemic, I got a chance…

  • Reflecting on a Sabbatical

    Reflecting on a Sabbatical

    I just completed three months of sabbatical at Automattic and rejoined work last week. It’s been one of the best life experiences I have ever had and it changed my life, my perspectives, and even me, as a person! The very day I joined Automattic, six years ago on a warm summer morning, I read…

  • The Place Where I Find Solitude

    I love my solitude, there I have said it. I need enough me time to feed my soul and keep me going. Solitude and introspection keeps me going. For me, I find my solitude in the balcony of my apartment. I have a good view over our compound and a nice view of the scenary…

  • Seven Years

    I am going to deviate from the day’s bloganuary prompt to share a bit of a personal post. Of course, this is a personal blog and some of the things I write here are deeply personal. This is just one of those posts. I just celebrated seven years of marriage with my wife. In the…

  • A Dream I Remember

    I’ll be real, I am a dreamer for life. But most of my dreams happen during my waking hours rather than in my sleep. I have my share of dreams in my sleep as well, but not a lot that I can remember so well. I have read somewhere that dreams are born out of…

  • A year to time travel to

    If I could pick a year to time travel to, I would pick 1998. Why? Because I love the nineties! Oh, what exciting times they were? I would probably go back and have fun with all the nineties technology. Good old CRT TVs, a nice funky VCR, landline phones, Pentium II computers with a whopping…

  • My favourite photo ever taken

    I vividly remember this picture – I shot it on a moving train (Jan Shatabdi Express) somewhere at Alappzuha while traveling from Trivandrum to Kochi. This was shot around nine years ago, in August 2013. I shot in on my iPhone 5, and enhanced it with Camera+ to make it look like what it is…

  • A superpower I’d love to have

    Fresh from watching Minnal Murali on Netflix (for the 10th time?), I’m going to answer super speed and strength with the power to levitate things! I kid. On a more serious note, I would wish for a superbrain as a super power. Like the ability to have a brain that works like a computer. I…