I’ll Choose Again – From Homebound to the Fig Tree

Dear Reader, If life is a tree, then choices are leaves. Some get plucked (circumstances), some fall with the seasons, and a few stay, shaping the tree's story. When I watched Homebound, the Hindi movie that missed its run at the Oscars, I wasn’t just struck by the theme of an unequal and unfair world …

In the Grip of Mediocrity

Hello! In the last post, I shared a poem with you which was accompanied by an AI image. A reader wrote back to say how they were unable to accept a creative using AI. When I argued it was only an image and the poem was self-composed, they mentioned it was still a sort of …

On Being Idle

Laughter is a rarity nowadays. Taking offence, I’m afraid, practiced to perfection. I remember how stories in our text books were sprinkled with the absurd, sometimes satirical humour to expose human naivety. The truth of the matter is that humour is indeed an ingenious way to make us think, question and introspect. Consider ‘On a …