Every year on 15th of September, for the past few years, I have been updating my travel list as a recap to all the places I have been in the previous year. This is my way of keeping the count on. Here’s a little secret—all these didn’t start until May of 2016. So in this much time, the count looks decent. Isn’t it?
The best five days of my life—sea-locked in the Balearic Sea
On 30th September 2018, we started our five days of cruise trip to cover the Balearic Islands with one of the most popular cruise lines in the world, the Royal Caribbean International, in ‘Vision of the Seas’ from the Port of Barcelona.
Friendships when you’re an adult…
I was a very popular person when I was younger and delighted in making friends. In hindsight, I realize that my friendships were my world and frankly a much too important part of my identity.
Where the mind is without fear…
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote Where the mind is without fear after the partition of Bengal, at the time when talks of declaring India as an independent nation were happening. This poem described his idea of a new India, an awakened one.
Cities that have shaped me: Barrackpore
I wish I could take each of them and show them around like I have experienced everything till now. But I have a feeling they wouldn’t have liked that. They are happy with what they have.
The faceless sadist
“Hello! You there?”, suddenly a voice queried. It derailed me from the train of thoughts I was in. For a moment, I thought who could that be, who would want to look for a soulless body?
Hello, world!
New beginnings must always be recognized! This is what I had on my mind for a long time. This is what I wanted to have by my name. Here’s me trying to build it step by step, post by post, and most importantly from moments to stories.
All the (S)pain is worth it: Barcelona
I don’t think I would have been happier if I were in London or Paris or any other city. I never dreamed of those. But I did dream of San Francisco and Barcelona. San Francisco hasn’t happened yet, but Barca did happen!
Cities that have shaped me: Delhi
Delhi/NCR was beyond my imagination. If you’d asked me five years ago if I would consider moving to this place, I would have snapped and asked if you were joking! But who knew what was in store? In 2016, I moved to Delhi and started chronicling my life here.
Pristine Pangong
There’s this quote I had read on the internet which goes like, ‘If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.’ Pangong Tso gave me back that love.
A cinematic brilliance: Tamasha
Tamasha, the most beautiful, yet an overtly underrated movie of recent times, is the truth of cinema. It is the truth derived from real life, and the real life which is just an extension of what we perceive. This movie can be a complete chapter in the curriculum of film studies.
Absentee relationships
While we were still learning and unlearning about friendships and relationships, a sudden, new-age relationship emerged, which I’d like to call as Absentee Relationship – this again has a varied degree of customization among people.
Righting wrongs with personal policies
Although I am not a fast learner when it comes to matters of life, what I have learned from this book is, it’s important to define personal policies. I already have one. This article is about winding my way to define the second one.
My right is your right
We have found a new profession of defining how an intelligent person should think, how a sensible person should speak, or how a self-aware person should look. If my personal choices and actions differ from yours then I am not good enough because the benchmark has been set.
Defining my ‘not available’ moments
Learning this, with the help of angry people, has been my biggest quest in recent years. They are too many in number. In fact, I was one of them few years ago—not too violent but I knew my temper wasn’t pleasing either.