“A few days ago, my colleague died from a heart attack. He was just 24 years old”, grieves Sonal. In tears, in an extreme state of shock, she continues, “Very supportive, very talkative, he was. I feel bad that he could not tell us what he was going through. He…

[Trigger Warning: This blog is a genuine confession about my mental health journey and it contains triggering words, which should be read only under a safe, stable, and secure mindset] 3:35 am, 10th July 2020. Numb, insomniac, helpless, hopeless, and unsecured. I wish I could label a few more feelings…

“When you will be done with the writing, bro?” asks Jai. Frowning, he seems to be disappointed, after spending 3 days at this hotel in Dharmshala, without exploring the scenic and serenity of this town in Himachal Pradesh. We came here to visit the beautiful monasteries, go berserk with the…

The author of this best-seller who brutally condemns ‘ego’ tells me, “I minted money by saying that it’s your enemy but I need ego to define myself, otherwise who will care for my identity?” His statement, which I believe, is certainly polemic by nature but it’s true that mankind cannot…

On the evening of 21st January 2022, two police personnel from the Delhi Police Department reached my place (in Mumbai). I had recovered from Covid-19 a few days ago and was asleep when they came. They reached my venue, surprisingly, to interrogate my tweet that went viral on the night…

We’ve been taught since our schooling years that disobedience causes chaos and disorderliness in society, and, therefore, at every step of our lives, we have been told to “obey”. Of course, obedience has made us retain the cacophony. And, it’s not always the disobedience serving as the root of the…

Ms Diksha Patil is a Mental Health counselor at a renowned private university, in Mumbai, and she tells me “When you give space to the saplings, they grow. When you water them, they are nurtured. But, when you regulate them more frequently, they will never become a tree with time…

“We were not taught about plagiarism! We do not even know what is it?” responds Dev Patel* (name changed on request), a student of a ‘renowned’ college in the western region of Mumbai. The case of Dev is not new and will not be old either, after seeing his whole…

“Before marriage, he was very much into me. With time, I realized he was simply infatuated with me. I do not feel the same radiation, that we intimately once shared. I pity the ‘big fat wedding’ we had,” Saumya Pandey* (name changed on request) tells me. Saumya’s husband works with…