Orhan Pamuk, Austin Kleon, and Paul Graham--whose writings I have come across recently and admire their tips for writing well.

It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on life and my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD. It’s been over a year since I started my PhD ...

Every once in a while, I put my head down and write the most boring things in the world. That seems like a good catharsis away from all PhD work. And today is one such. In this newsletter, I try ...

The start of March has been spectacularly ominous. At the start of the month, Brisbane witnessed something unusual, even by the standards of Brisbane weather. Cyclone Alfred—Alfie, as some Aussies ...

It has been a while since 2024 is over–and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we tend to reflect on how our previous year was—and what we wish the next year to be: ...

In every neighbourhood, there are detectives and the supposed mysterious characters. Every family holds that one character who tends to get sceptical of everything and does not and will not accept ...

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

The birth of a new nation-state at the end of British colonial rule enabled sovereignty to be restored to the people for the first time in its history. People, who were, until then, mere subjects, ...

They say adulting is hard. And just as I finished watching this Netflix drama series, ‘Adolescence’, monickering the transitional phase from a child to becoming an adult—the process of ...

Kitchen—one place in Indian households delineated as a space for women. Men, by free will or forced socialisation into patriarchy, are placed far away from all spaces near the great Indian kitchen.

I recently went with a friend to the cinema to watch ‘Conclave’. I thoroughly enjoyed both the cinematic experience, the frames and the colours in the movie. Until watching this movie, I did not truly ...