Dec 12, 2022 | Education, Prose, Society & Culture
I had just entered college to study pure sciences with a bad reputation as a quitter. I had quit engineering after two semesters as I found the course not complimenting with my vision of life. I was always fond of arts like writing, literature and music. The very...
Nov 30, 2022 | Education, General, Prose, Society & Culture
Happy Birthday to Me… I wanted to write something about childhood when I realised it was Children’s day on November 14th. Today is the 23rd of November and It took nine days for me to actually sit down to write something. I see the tendency in me to judge myself...
Nov 2, 2022 | Education, General, Prose, Society & Culture
Writing is not the medium. Writing happens when the writer becomes a medium. My brother Pavan KJ is a photographer. We have a lot of shared history and we share a close relationship. We generally feel that we have a deep understanding of each other’s...
Sep 5, 2021 | Education, General, Poetry, Prose, Society & Culture
Why should I forgo what I think or feel about a poem for what a literary theory says about it? It is commonly believed that poetry cannot be paraphrased, that once you start unfolding its meaning, line by line, its true essence, like that of a dream upon waking and...
Jul 14, 2021 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
Parenting during this pandemic is starting to feel like mindful living, for me. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a planner. I like things in my life to be fairly neat and tidy, and laid out in a manner that has been thought through well in advance. I make endless...
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