Life
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Juhu Marathon 2025
Last year I started going to marathons. Specifically the Juhu Marathon which has a dream run leg of 4 kms. This was my second year attending and I arrived early at the venue with Harshaja, who was considerably more enthusiastic about the...
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6 Months of Lockdown
Six months in and the shifts are real. Not temporary adjustments — actual structural changes to how work, infrastructure, and daily life operate.
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Life and Opportunities Post COVID-19
Two months into the pandemic-related remote work transition, patterns are beginning to emerge. Some are positive. Some are not.
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Work from Home: The New Norm
As if taken from a zombiecalypse movie, the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the entire world in a significant way. Without meeting people, how does work get done?
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Why Does a Non-Football Fan Like Me Still Watch the World Cup 2018?
I am not a football enthusiast. I find myself watching the 2018 World Cup anyway. The reason is simple: I am genuinely moved by ordinary individuals accomplishing extraordinary things, and Belgium’s run in this tournament centres on...
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2018, the Year of Numbers
13 Llama Studio began as a full-service agency accepting all projects — websites, logos, app development, product incubation. While that kept the business active, it diverted focus from what I actually care about: working with...
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The Case of the Missing Engagement Glue
In December 2016, my family’s flight from Mumbai to Gwalior was cancelled due to fog. What followed was a month-long ordeal involving Air India, Cleartrip, and an almost total absence of what I can only call engagement glue —...
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2016 — A Year in Review
2016 was a year of difficult choices and useful lessons. Here is an honest account of both.
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Dr. Strange and the Case of Disabling Constructs
Dr. Strange is one of Marvel’s top-grossing single-hero films. Benedict Cumberbatch excels at playing roles with strong character — Dr. Strange both before and after his transformation gives him full range. This post is not a...
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I Am Sapped
There are weeks that drain you completely. Not from any single dramatic event, but from the accumulated weight of small decisions, small disappointments, and the relentless forward motion that life demands even when you would rather stop.
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Faith
Faith is a word that gets used in two very different ways, and confusing them causes a lot of unnecessary argument. There is faith as a religious or spiritual concept, and there is faith as a practical operating principle — the...
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5 Years Hence
Five years is an interesting unit of time to think about. Short enough to feel concrete, long enough to allow for genuine transformation. Where will you be in five years? What will you have built, broken, learned, abandoned?
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a peculiar emotion. It is not quite happiness and not quite sadness — it sits somewhere between them, a kind of sweet ache for things that no longer exist in the form you remember them.
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My Life Is a Beatles Soundtrack
There are bands whose music fits specific moods or phases. And then there is the Beatles, which seems to have written the soundtrack for every possible human experience. I keep discovering this at unexpected moments.
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Savalee — The Acorn and the Oak
The Marathi word savalee means shadow — specifically the pleasant shade cast by a large tree. It carries connotations of shelter, rest, and the kind of cool refuge you seek on a hot afternoon. It is a word with comfort built into it.
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Valu — The Wild Bull
Valu is a Marathi word for a wild, uncontrollable bull — one that has broken free of all constraints and moves through the world on pure instinct and energy, without direction or discipline. The word is used to describe people too.
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Life as We Know It
There are moments where you step back from the routine and notice it from the outside — the particular shape of your days, the habits and relationships and small choices that have accumulated into what is, for better or worse, your...
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Lights Out
This is the first post on this blog. It seems appropriate to begin with something honest about what a blog is and what this one is supposed to be.