Essays
The strange business of being human.
100 latest essays on work, love, ambition, loneliness, relationships and the everyday absurdities of being alive.
- Society & Culture
- Mind & Meaning
- Love & Connection
- Work & Ambition
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- 01 The Woman I Never Met (opens on Substack)
- 02 Who Gets the Key? (opens on Substack)
- 03 Don’t Be Intellectually Lazy (opens on Substack)
- 04 The Lift Problem (opens on Substack)
- 05 Stop Pulling People Down (opens on Substack)
- 06 Informational Obesity Will Kill You (opens on Substack)
- 07 Some People Will Dislike You (opens on Substack)
- 08 Indians Live Poor but Die Rich (opens on Substack)
- 09 Tomorrow Is a Scam (opens on Substack)
- 10 Under the Same Sky (opens on Substack)
- 11 The Mathematics of Love (opens on Substack)
- 12 The Third Culture of Love (opens on Substack)
- 13 The Size of the Fight (opens on Substack)
- 14 Nazar Is Real (opens on Substack)
- 15 The Small Corruptions of Power (opens on Substack)
- 16 Busyness Is a Disease (opens on Substack)
- 17 The Secret Expiry Date (opens on Substack)
- 18 The AI Peddlers (opens on Substack)
- 19 Everything Is Temporary (opens on Substack)
- 20 The Ocean Inside Us (opens on Substack)
- 21 My Inability to Pretend (opens on Substack)
- 22 Selflessness Is the Biggest Flex (opens on Substack)
- 23 The People Who Love You Wouldn’t Hurt You (opens on Substack)
- 24 The Moment of Choosing (opens on Substack)
- 25 Delhi Devours Empires (opens on Substack)
- 26 What Raja Ravi Varma Painted Over (opens on Substack)
- 27 Builders and Orbiters (opens on Substack)
- 28 Why Do You Hold My Hand (opens on Substack)
- 29 Let It Bloom (opens on Substack)
- 30 Why Build a Personal Brand? (opens on Substack)
- 31 Organised Hypocrisy (opens on Substack)
- 32 The Right to a Dignified Exit (opens on Substack)
- 33 Watching Your Parents Grow Old (opens on Substack)
- 34 The Weather Inside the Mind (opens on Substack)
- 35 Stuck (opens on Substack)
- 36 The Icarus Paradox (opens on Substack)
- 37 Why Compulsory Retirement at 60 Is a Policy Fossil (opens on Substack)
- 38 The Invisible Weight of Holding a Community (opens on Substack)
- 39 Standing Beside the Teacher (opens on Substack)
- 40 Memento Mori (opens on Substack)
- 41 Most People Lose to Themselves (opens on Substack)
- 42 Kindness Without Witnesses (opens on Substack)
- 43 A Century of Sound in One Evening (opens on Substack)
- 44 The Microwave Mindset (opens on Substack)
- 45 Belief Before Blueprint (opens on Substack)
- 46 You bewilder (opens on Substack)
- 47 What Is Home, After All (opens on Substack)
- 48 When the Constitution Learns to Bleed (opens on Substack)
- 49 "Be realistic," they say (opens on Substack)
- 50 Love Does Not Flow Straight (opens on Substack)
- 51 I AM BETTING ON MYSELF. (opens on Substack)
- 52 Kalaphobia (opens on Substack)
- 53 The Courage to Say I Don’t Know (opens on Substack)
- 54 Depression is Real (opens on Substack)
- 55 Love Begins After the Honeymoon Ends (opens on Substack)
- 56 Who Are You Without the Badge? (opens on Substack)
- 57 Let What You Love Consume You (opens on Substack)
- 58 Purna Swaraj of the Mind (opens on Substack)
- 59 The Illusion Economy (opens on Substack)
- 60 The Mosquito Question (opens on Substack)
- 61 The Sir–Madam Syndrome (opens on Substack)
- 62 Why the Most Important Ideas Travel the Slowest (opens on Substack)
- 63 Love Is Not Enough (opens on Substack)
- 64 The Third Body (opens on Substack)
- 65 When Giving More Starts Costing You (opens on Substack)
- 66 Why Book Fairs Still Matter in the Age of Algorithms (opens on Substack)
- 67 Life Is Not Short. It Is Unpredictable. (opens on Substack)
- 68 When Adding a Road Makes Everything Slower (opens on Substack)
- 69 Love Is Hard (opens on Substack)
- 70 The Profit That Multiplies When Shared (opens on Substack)
- 71 Nothing Is Ever Absolute (opens on Substack)
- 72 What Time Chooses to Hold (opens on Substack)
- 73 Those Who Stay (opens on Substack)
- 74 After the Festival Ends (opens on Substack)
- 75 Slow Motion (opens on Substack)
- 76 Who Walks Slower Because We Move Fast (opens on Substack)
- 77 I Just Felt Like Writing (opens on Substack)
- 78 The Most Reliable Middle-Class Inheritance (opens on Substack)
- 79 When the Road Becomes the Only Choice (opens on Substack)
- 80 Dearest You (opens on Substack)
- 81 Banyan Trees Don’t Grow in Coffee Cups (opens on Substack)
- 82 Why I Failed UPSC (opens on Substack)
- 83 Love That Does Not Save (opens on Substack)
- 84 The Invisible Economy Outside Exam Centres (opens on Substack)
- 85 When the Sky Stops Feeling Neutral (opens on Substack)
- 86 To the Woman Who Will Make Me Whole (opens on Substack)
- 87 2026 (opens on Substack)
- 88 A Productive Year, Unexpectedly (opens on Substack)
- 89 Shallow Streams and Deep Rivers (opens on Substack)
- 90 Government is singularly responsible for Delhi’s AQI (opens on Substack)
- 91 Clapping With Borrowed Hands (opens on Substack)
- 92 Schools Without Children (opens on Substack)
- 93 Hyperlife Syndrome (opens on Substack)
- 94 When Tough Gets Going (opens on Substack)
- 95 Delhi: A Satire (opens on Substack)
- 96 The Familiar Faces That Resent Your Rise (opens on Substack)
- 97 Stop Living in the Past (opens on Substack)
- 98 Christmas Eve, Prague (opens on Substack)
- 99 FOMO (opens on Substack)
- 100 Failure Is a Lazy Judgment (opens on Substack)