Essays & Reflections
Long-form writing on ideas, professional life, and the quieter questions that don't fit anywhere else.
The Art of Paying Attention in an Age of Noise
We have built an entire civilisation in the business of distraction. Every notification is a small theft of presence. And yet — attention, I think, is the only truly scarce resource we have. Everything else can be earned back. This one cannot.
Continue Reading →On Rereading Old Journals
There is something deeply strange about meeting your past self in the margin notes of a dog-eared notebook — a self who was certain about things you now doubt, and doubtful about things you now know.
Continue Reading →What Hindi Cinema Taught Me About Grief
I did not cry at my grandfather's funeral. I cried six months later, watching an old Gulzar film alone at 2 a.m. Some emotions wait for the right language to arrive.
Continue Reading →The City I Keep Returning To
Some cities are places. Others are selves. The one I keep returning to is the one that made me — not because it was kind to me, but because it was honest.
Continue Reading →Notes on Learning a Language You Half-Forgot
The language I grew up speaking is not the language I think in. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, one slipped behind the other. Trying to retrieve it has been less like learning and more like remembering something I was never taught to remember.
Continue Reading →In Defence of Slow Reading
Speed reading is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. The goal is not to get through the book. The goal is to let the book get through you.
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