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• 26 November 2024
  From Partition to OCD to Divorce: The Family Curse I Couldn’t Escape 

• 22 November 2024
  THE PORTRAIT OF AN INDIAN WOMAN AS A YOUNG DIVORCEE 

• 21 February 2024
   

• 21 February 2024
   

• 24 December 2023
  𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗯𝗲𝗿-𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗵 

• 8 April 2023
  2023-04-08 

• 4 December 2022
  The Sweets Smell Of Tulsi Leaves 

• 4 December 2022
  Schrodinger’s Humour 

• 7 May 2022
  How To Sabotage A Perfectly Fine Chance Of Having An Extramarital Affair? 

• 7 May 2022
  An Almost Made Up Poem 

• 10 April 2022
  Mad. Magic. Fire. 

• 2 April 2022
  I Am Emotionally Constipated And I Am Ok With It 

• 5 March 2022
  Life Isn’t A Game Of Chess. Or Is It? 

• 5 December 2021
  Sometimes, It Just Takes 6 Seconds To Get A Life 

• 8 September 2021
  Meeting Old Friends After Ages 

• 10 August 2021
  What’s The Story Of Your Name? 

• 9 July 2021
  Life Is A Gift 

• 23 June 2021
  It’s The People… They’re The Problem 

• 23 May 2021
  The Half Life Of Happiness 

• 29 April 2021
  I Hope Against All Hope 

• 24 April 2021
  On Our Shared Disgust And Maybe Numbness 

• 5 April 2021
  One Less Battle To Fight 

• 3 April 2021
  Did Anjali Sharma Complete Her Studies? 

• 1 April 2021
  The Help 

• 30 March 2021
  On Meaningful Conversations 

• 21 March 2021
  This Characterless Man Has No Poetry To Write 

• 7 March 2021
  Aur Bhi Dukh Hain Zamane Mein Mohabbat Ke Siwa 

• 26 February 2021
  On Interviewing People 

• 18 February 2021
  I Am Existentially Exhausted And I Miss Lucky Ali’s ‘O Sanam’ 

• 7 February 2021
  It’s Time To Re-connect To My Inner Child 

• 21 October 2020
  Love Is What Remains When SRK-Irrfan Khan-Style Masala Washes Off 

• 9 October 2020
  Closure 

• 11 September 2020
  Let’s Be Filmy, Let’s Love 

• 4 September 2020
  Mi Amor, Bangalore! 

• 25 August 2020
  Why Indian Kids Falling In Love Is A Bad Thing 

• 20 August 2020
  Ruksar And My IQ - A Conversation With My Therapist 

• 17 August 2020
  My Friend List 

• 13 August 2020
  You Don’t Need Religion To Be A Decent Human 

• 12 August 2020
  My Querencia 

• 12 August 2020
  What’s Beneath The Temple? 

• 7 August 2020
  The Curious Case Of Hi-Hello-Hey 

• 6 August 2020
  When My Compulsive Behavior Is A Threat To My Principles 

• 3 August 2020
  What I Write Vs What I Mean 

• 28 July 2020
  The Inescapable Fate Of A Rebellious Mind 

• 27 July 2020
  Change 

• 22 July 2020
  The Therapist And Her Bookshelf 

• 22 July 2020
  Priorities 

• 15 July 2020
  The Oriya Mess-waale Bhaiya 

• 5 July 2020
  Delivering Learning And Life Outcomes 

• 2 July 2020
  Clearing My Conscience In The Time Of Corona 

• 1 July 2020
  Memorabilia 

• 27 June 2020
  Reclaiming Spaces 

• 23 June 2020
  Chowkidar Chor Hai Aur Chinese Bhi 

• 22 June 2020
  The Metamorphosis 

• 17 June 2020
  I Love City Life 

• 16 June 2020
  An Ethical Conundrum 

• 13 June 2020
  An Assertion-Reason Type Facebook Profile Intro 

• 7 June 2020
  Social Distancing Is Good. So Is Social-Media Distancing 

• 6 June 2020
  Home 

• 30 May 2020
  No Shortcut To Solidarity 

• 29 May 2020
  Sonu Sood’s Groundwork To Join Politics Gives Me Hope 

• 27 May 2020
  In A World Of Chatur Ramalingams, Embibe Is The Phunsukh Wangdu 

• 26 May 2020
  I Have Grown Up… And I Have Mixed Feelings About It 

• 13 May 2020
  All You Need Is A Little Love… And Bournvita 

• 3 May 2020
  Love That Makes Me Feel Free 

• 9 April 2020
  A Shitty Life & A Fucked Up Political System 

• 4 April 2020
  An Unnecessary Explanation 

• 3 April 2020
  Dear Prime Minister, Here Are A Few Suggestions On How To Deal With This COVID-19 Pandemic 

• 2 April 2020
  And It Feels Good 

• 27 March 2020
  She Dreams With Her Feet 

• 22 March 2020
  Janta Curfew From My Balcony 

• 20 March 2020
  A Pleasantly Shocking Realization 

• 13 March 2020
  The Psychology Of Bragging About Having A Big Family - A Conversation 

• 4 March 2020
  Life & Lies 

• 16 February 2020
  Gandhi, Feynman, Bajrang Dal, And A Curious Tale Of Power Structures 

• 12 February 2020
  I Am Getting Married & Here’s What You Should Know About It - FAQs About My Marriage 

• 7 February 2020
  Truth Or Dare 

• 2 February 2020
  I Should Have Been There In The Photo 

• 29 January 2020
  What’s Wrong With Kunal Kamra? 

• 7 January 2020
  CAA Protests - A Case Of India’s Questionable Conscience 

• 26 December 2019
  Living With OCD 

• 7 October 2019
  Insignificant Memories And A Tale Of A Thousand Deaths 

• 13 September 2019
  A Friend Request 

• 10 September 2019
  An Evening With The Oldest Young Man In My Life 

• 28 August 2019
  My Mother Transformed Herself Many A Time In Her Life 

• 27 August 2019
  The Curious Case Of Learned Social Behaviors 

• 26 August 2019
  A Blurred World And Illegible Scribbles 

• 14 August 2019
  The House 

• 21 July 2019
  Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared Of Disappointing Anyone 

• 18 July 2019
  Is There Any Difference Between Art And Design? 

• 18 July 2019
  An Unexpected Turn 

• 8 July 2019
  Living A Life Filled With The Excitement Of Losing 

• 27 June 2019
  Tit For Tat 

• 25 June 2019
  Metro 

• 18 May 2019
  I Was Never A Sentimental 

• 17 May 2019
  Your 15 Minutes Can Change Someone’s Life 

• 17 May 2019
  What Are You Doing With Our Data? 

• 17 May 2019
  Take The Message, Ignore The Way It Has Been Delivered! 

• 17 May 2019
  Life Has Changed 

• 17 May 2019
  It’s Never Too Late To Start Saying No 

• 17 May 2019
  Ignorance Or Stubborn Carelessness? 

• 12 May 2019
  I Wish I Could Be Proud of My Mom Again 

• 7 May 2019
  The Most Attractive And Stylish Female Politician In India! 

• 21 April 2019
  The Death Of An Artist 

• 8 April 2019
  The Curious Friendship 

• 26 March 2019
  A Self-Written Obituary 

• 2 July 2018
  A Not At All Obsessive-Compulsive Love Story 

• 23 June 2018
  Alexa, Who Is Your Master? 

• 19 March 2018
  It’s Good To Be Quiet 

• 2 February 2018
  Jealousy 

• 2 February 2018
  Insomnia 

• 14 January 2018
  100 Days Of Sobriety 

• 3 December 2017
  Homecoming 

• 5 November 2017
  Her Desire To Be Free 

• 4 November 2017
  That Was All She Wanted To Hear 

• 31 October 2017
  This Halloween, Dress Up Like A Smart, Confident, Well-Read, Politically Aware, Ambitious Woman 

• 27 October 2017
  Because We Are Selfish 

• 22 October 2017
  An Unexpected Small Talk With My Mother 

• 21 October 2017
  The Little Girl Who Sells Pen At Brigade Road And Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata 

• 20 October 2017
  Another Smile To Remember 

• 16 October 2017
  Chains 

• 14 October 2017
  The Therapist 

• 6 October 2017
  On Marriage 

• 23 September 2017
  An Open Letter To Sushma Swaraj 

• 19 September 2017
  Aroma 

• 16 September 2017
  A Conversation With A Newly Wed Distant Relative 

• 15 September 2017
  Individualism What? 

• 13 September 2017
  Damaged People 

• 12 September 2017
  Dr House, Er Pritam, And A Tale Of Two Love Stories 

• 8 September 2017
  The Whining Lady 

• 8 September 2017
  I Look Like Those Kids From Flipkart Ads 

• 2 September 2017
  The Idea Of India 

• 2 September 2017
  I Will Become A Godman 

• 1 September 2017
  An Unforgettable Smile 

• 6 August 2017
  Raksha Bandhan 

• 22 July 2017
  Drunkards Know It Better 

• 3 July 2017
  Ram Rajya 

• 27 June 2017
  Not In My Name? My Foot! 

• 24 June 2017
  Why God Has A Problem With People Eating Food? 

• 12 June 2017
  Good Teacher, Bad Student 

• 8 June 2017
  I Have Won The War 

• 12 May 2017
  A Cheap Game 

• 14 March 2017
  78 Times The Modi Government Made Headlines For The Wrong Reasons 

• 9 March 2017
  Can Narendra Modi’s Association with Dhruv Saxena, Be Considered as an Act of Waging War against India 

• 7 March 2017
  The Curious Case Of The Ramjas College Row 

• 4 March 2017
  You Cannot Be A Warrior Of Peace, Especially When Your Father Was A Martyr In A War 

• 1 March 2017
  Banning Lipstick Under My Burkha Is Not Unexpected Under The Manusmriti-Worshipping Government 

• 27 February 2017
  More Than Just Clicking, Less Than Traditional Activism 

• 26 February 2017
  Does Raees Serve The Hindutva Interest Of Making Muslims The “Other”? 

• 21 February 2017
  A Tale Of Hindutva Hypocrisy And Media’s Selective Outbursts 

• 20 February 2017
  Jallikattu - Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils… For The Sake Of Indigenous Breeds Of Cattle 

• 13 February 2017
  An Unstatesmanly Remark By A Statesman 

• 16 January 2017
  She Just Needs A Big Hug from Me 

• 14 January 2017
  What Happened When I Made The First Live Nude Sketch Of My Life 

• 12 January 2017
  How To Kill Gandhi? 

• 9 January 2017
  Karan Johar’s Coming Out 

• 7 January 2017
  Sunny Leone, My Academic Life, And A Tale About Interpretation Of Dreams 

• 3 January 2017
  Most Of Us Give Up, Do A 9 To 5 Job, And Pay Taxes 

• 30 December 2016
  What Have You Done With Your Life, Why Are You So Proud Of Yourself? 

• 28 December 2016
  The Curious Case Of Social Networks 

• 23 December 2016
  Found… And Lost Each Other Again 

• 22 December 2016
  This Is The Best Christmas Present I Ever Received 

• 17 September 2016
  Void 

• 26 July 2016
  Beauty… In Distance… 

• 22 July 2016
  A LOVELY Conversation 

• 21 July 2016
  Getting Illegitimately Horny During My Last Moments Of Freedom 

• 3 July 2016
  My Conservative Cellphone 

• 3 July 2016
  How To Not Get Killed? 

• 27 June 2016
  I Think Your Girlfriend Should Date Me 

• 20 June 2016
  A Night To Remember 

• 12 June 2016
  The Bed 

• 10 June 2016
  Give Peace A Chance 

• 26 May 2016
  Urban Indian Double Standards While Dealing With Politicians And Public Figures 

• 12 May 2016
  Bhai, Ek Joke Suna De… 

• 25 April 2016
  I Can Never Forget Her… Because I Never Loved Her… 

• 20 April 2016
  Kohinoor And The Great Leader 

• 20 March 2016
  Aur Batao… 

• 14 March 2016
  When It Comes To Love, The Craziest Women Are The Best 

• 29 February 2016
  A Conversation On Caste 

• 28 February 2016
  Sociable People Are Psychotic Bore 

• 24 February 2016
  The Outcast 

• 22 February 2016
  The Hyper-religious 

• 20 February 2016
  Selflessly Straightforward And Honest 

• 19 February 2016
  Bharat Maata Is Not a Hindu Goddess.Period. 

• 16 February 2016
  Patriarchal Government. Patriarchal Voters. 

• 15 February 2016
  The Idea Of India Is Just An Idea 

• 11 February 2016
  Being Alice In A Fucked Up, Homophobic Country 

• 6 February 2016
  Feeding My Creative Inspirations 

• 5 February 2016
  Smiling Like An Idiot Doesn’t Help At All 

• 30 January 2016
  A Conversation With An Orthodox Person 

• 29 January 2016
  Hallucination 

• 28 January 2016
  People Are Boring. But Not You. 

• 26 January 2016
  I Hope I Don’t Get Bored Of Myself 

• 24 January 2016
  Those Sleepless Nights Were A Blessing 

• 23 January 2016
  Late Night Conversation 

• 21 January 2016
  I Love Being An Asshole To Most Of The People 

• 15 January 2016
  Brothers 

• 13 January 2016
  The Sabarimala Hypocrisy 

• 12 January 2016
  Dear Maa, I Haven’t Moved On 

• 21 December 2015
  India 

• 17 December 2015
  Just Another Relationship 

• 2 September 2015
  I Am Not A Goldfish Circling Around In A Fish Bowl… And I Refuse To Live Like One… 

• 26 July 2015
  I Wish We Could Loot Them 

• 21 July 2015
  The Annoying Case Of Social Media 

• 12 June 2015
  The Curious Case Of Small Towns 

• 10 June 2015
  Go To Pakistan? Sure! 

• 27 May 2015
  A Sleep To Remember 

• 26 May 2015
  I Still Like Pink 

• 20 April 2015
  More Priya Vedis Will Die 

• 16 April 2015
  A Beautiful Woman 

• 26 March 2015
  The Good Indians Pray For Their Country, The BEST Of Indians Get Violent, And I Am An Anti National 

• 15 March 2015
  The Matrimonial Malice 

• 7 March 2015
  The Whimsical Weed Philosophy 

• 22 February 2015
  Cricket, Cigarettewala & A Little Malice 

• 20 February 2015
  I Have Got Thirty Bucks In My Pocket Right Now 

• 15 February 2015
  And This Holds Good For People Outside Facebook As Well 

• 7 February 2015
  Goodbye, Bangalore 

• 22 December 2014
  Budding Pseudo-Intellectuals 

• 21 December 2014
  My Christmas 

• 20 December 2014
  Someday I Will Write A Book Worth Reading 

• 19 December 2014
  Hope 

• 12 December 2014
  It Snows Only Once In Our Dreams 

• 29 November 2014
  God Is Like A Spoilt, Insensitive, Selfish Brat Of A Rich Dad 

• 29 June 2014
  And That’s How They Met 

• 12 June 2014
  And The Moment Lasted Forever 

• 26 April 2014
  Dinner 

• 13 March 2014
  The Bedsheet 

• 7 March 2014
  The Servant 

• 4 March 2014
  My Father Should Have Come With Us 

• 8 February 2014
  A Prolonged Intrusion 

• 25 January 2014
  Nightmares 

• 15 January 2014
  Love Child 

• 2 December 2013
  She Is So Worth It 

• 22 October 2013
  A Nameless Relationship 

• 30 July 2012
  Picture Quality Back In Those Days Was Not Good 

• 8 July 2012
  And Then You Stop Feeling Everything 

• 5 July 2012
  Me With Her… And She With Someone Else 

• 21 December 2011
  Cheers To Life… Cheers To Change…