May 30The Art-enemy (Art Journal, Entry #1)I have always wanted to learn art. Not the art that is a drawing or a painting, but the art that is a way of life. I am a writer. I have practised many words to give myself a new perspective to various things in life. A word-focused, story-focused mind…Art5 min readArt5 min read
Nov 30, 2022Fear of Failure: Insights (Podcast 1)Following are some loosely threaded insights from the conversation: Failure and success are relativistic terms. Social terms. Task and Goal oriented. You set a goal, and requirements on how you want the goal to be achieved. If you achieve the goal the way you required or desired it to be…Creativity7 min readCreativity7 min read
Sep 12, 2022On Poetry, Fiction, and BlogsIf you scoured the internet today, stockpiling writing pieces from all the websites in the world, I wonder, what genre or type or nature of writing would constitute most percentage. And if we were to filter this content, by year, let’s say, 2022, what would we find? …Writing8 min readWriting8 min read
Jul 14, 2022Secret from Beyond : An Old StoryWhere did I leave off? Oh yes, I was narrating the tale of how I died AGAIN, wasn’t I? I should have known. I try to keep it a secret, but stories tend to flow out of my mouth these days like honey bees out of their combs, just a…Writing10 min readWriting10 min read
Apr 8, 2022Creative Scheduling: The Impossible Beast to HarnessImagine this. An artist sets foot in a vintage study. He just woke up from a weird dream about goats gliding on a roller coaster. No, wait, it wasn’t a roller-coaster. It was just a few wavy tracks, like train tracks in the air, and the goats hung about them…Creativity7 min readCreativity7 min read
Apr 2, 202245 Days of Poetry“On the other hand, it is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring effect. …Poetry5 min readPoetry5 min read
Mar 27, 2022Agreeing and Disagreeing with Lord Henry from Oscar Wilde’s only novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray, a masterpiece, originally published in the year 1890, is a mind-rattling work of artistic inquiry about life, death, hedonism, and art, that leaves you wondering for hours in your chair after you bear through the discomfort and marvel of its every chapter. …Books7 min readBooks7 min read
Sep 18, 2020Why you SHOULD read ‘Anna Karenina’!NO SPOILERS AHEAD :) A cumulus of suggestions about which book should you be reading next must follow you everywhere today. Not just through friends and colleagues, but through YouTube motivational videos, Banners, articles streaming through your feeds, and all other forms of media that have been exploited to offer…Reading4 min readReading4 min read
Jun 12, 2020Writer’s Diary : No rains, no inspiration, no story deadlinesDisclaimer: This is not a blog or a properly put together article. It’s a confession trial, a therapy, what they call ‘letting your heart’ out these days. I am at the verge of finishing the last chapter of my first book, and as most of us don’t want to say…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Mar 30, 2020Vincent van Gogh: Happy 167th BirthdayWhile he was alive, we never gave him the respect we do now. That’s what life is I guess, we leave our footprints for decades, sometimes centuries. Our art lives on even when we don’t, even when we never did…. Here is something I want to say to the artist…Vincent3 min readVincent3 min read