Why do I write blogs?
… because writing (and reading) blogs is fun!
Blogging is fun. With blogs, you get to write your heart out about something you know, something you learned, something you saw, something you thought about, something you did, something you have opinions about… something you experienced.
Writing blogs is so wonderfully human.
I wish everyone did it. Full disclosure, I never wrote blogs before 2020. I don’t know why I didn’t write blogs before. When I did reassess my life, I realized how I wanted to catalogue palpable change. As humans, we change so much as time passes us by. Our experiences and the things we learn along the way shape who we ultimately become. My blogs are to showcase just that.
So… welcome to my blog! This human likes to do a lot of things. Therefore, this human will write blogs about these things she does. The aim is to show you what I did, what I learned, and how it impacted me. In doing so, I create a catalogue and you can read (and maybe try) the experiences.
I would love to hear your takes on the things I write about. Opinions and experiences are personal, aren’t they? This is precisely why I have separate blogs and essays pages. I look forward to hearing from you.
How Makoto Shinkai’s Kimi no Nawa left me feeling broken
Sometimes, it is alright to give in to your emotions and feeling it all. Like a comet, break apart, only to be alright again.
Chappelle and his immaculate use of outrage and empathy
Dave Chappelle is a master of the storytelling and joke telling craft. I attempted to analyse his style as the Closer trends to applause and outrage alike.
Featured: Home for Fiction
The Problematic Allure of Social Media Aesthetics
How posing for photos neatly boxes away every issue associated to the ideology of the aesthetic.
Featured: Thrive Global
Why You Should Write A Letter Today?
…because writing letters is fun!
Featured: Start It Up
The Story Of The Famous Newtonian Apple
Did the apple really fall on his head?
Banning Cryptocurrency In India Isn’t Really The Answer We’re All Looking For
Bans generally are never a good idea.
Featured: Swap Language
Ten Tips To Learn A New Language
…based on personal experience.
Language learning is more of an intention and strategy game.
Featured: Buzz Magazine
Ebooks are better than Printed Books
Sharing a Preference.
When love melts your earwax – Men Writing Women
Some examples and a 43-point-list of what not to write while writing women.
A Take on Book Piracy and Plagiarism
A-glass-half full take on piracy and plagiarism.
How to get Ideas to Write a Book
To write a book, one must first be armed with a quill and a steady hand.
The Bare Minimum Requirements for writing a book
Writing a book isn’t as hard as you are led to believe. Like everything worth doing, there is a system, a process and a lot of perseverance at play. These are nine things you absolutely have to do.
The Audacious Art of finding a Writing Community
Writing is a lonely profession but you don’t need to be alone as you write.
Your book will get published
Your dream is to become an author. Entrust your dream to the publishers.
Achieve Self-Publishing Success
Self-publish your book if that’s what aligns with your priorities.
Market your Book, please 🥹
An appeal to authors to not shy away from marketing their books.
Know (and Kill) your Darlings
The darlings are alluringly distracting. They are how you lose readers. You have to spot them and kill them.
Paint over the Purple
Purple Prose seems poetic. It often always is distracting. Avoid it, if possible.
9 Compelling Reasons why you should participate in Community events
Doing something regularly is known to be beneficial. In this blog, I share why you should try community events for thirty days straight.
Is the inevitable death of Human Content Writing here already?
Will a software replace human content writers for the better? Can an ML+AI based tool become an addition to the writer’s toolkit?
Andrew Grove’s High Output Management
This must-read management book teaches you the input-output approach to leading a successful professional life.
Learn to write Fiction using existing historical or mythological stories
Fiction writing can be learned. In this blog, I tell you how you can tell stories by practicing with the stories which already exist.
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
A book that teaches you a way to live a happy, successful, eternal life.
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Appreciating Earth
A much-needed discussion to foster gratitude for the planet that sustains us in every way possible.
Risk Taking
A much-needed discussion to analyse what taking risk actually entails – the decisions and the repercussions.
Our Bodies
A much-needed discussion to analyse what our bodies are – the biology and the choices we make.
Agree to Disagree
A much-needed discussion to analyse the way we communicate – how we agree to disagree.
Irrational
A much-needed discussion to analyse rationality and irrationality of human behaviour.
Imagination
A much-needed discussion to analyse the way we imagine.
What Made Millions In Hong Kong Come Out And Protest A Bill?
People don’t risk their lives over trivial pursuits.
The Iran-Saudi Arabia Proxy Conflict: the Middle Eastern Cold War that’s being fought for Islamic hegemony
It is a conflict that’s as grey as it gets.
Writing Tip: Don’t fall prey to Confirmation Bias
Biases aren’t a good idea for any profession.
Stop using Free Speech as an Excuse to defend predatory behaviour
Free speech doesn’t include an exemption for consequences.
I did a Writing AMA on LinkedIn. Here’s how it went.
I answer 16 questions; enjoy!
The Catch-22 Of The US Withdrawing From The Iran Nuclear Deal
It isn’t binary; the stay and the go have repercussions.
Let’s Get Our Facts Right About Climate Change
Climate change has become an emotional issue and it shouldn’t be – a rant.
The title is indicative of the tone of the answers – consider yourself warned.