Reflecting and revisiting some of the things in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book. I recently read Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I didn’t plan to. I saw the book in the Amazon’s home page suggestions and I started reading. The author’s father died during Covid from a kidney malfunction…

We brush our teeth daily 🪥. Yes, there are some weekends where we become careless and let the day slip by without it. Big deal! We poop almost daily too in the morning ( noon or evening, whatever your body and your digestive system clock prefers 💩 ). What does…

Based on some of the common problems that I’ve observed in the companies and cultures I’ve worked in, and heard from friends around. Originally published on my website Disclaimer These points are made out of observation and experience and in no way attempts to generalise. Let’s Talk Glorification Rockstar Culture In…

Originally published on my website I don’t remember when I started following Sunil on Twitter. He’s a developer who — apart from his day job — invests a lot of time in curating development resources in Twitter threads. He has a significantly large Twitter following. He spends a lot of…

A story about the morning when I woke up to find that I was charged ₹ 28,000 by Google Cloud, with no prior memory of having used anything on Google Cloud, except some firebase projects which were years old. — Originally published on my website Until recently, like many of us, the first thing I used to do in the morning would be to check my mobile phone. I realised that it was taking about 20 mins to half an hour of my morning time. So I stopped doing it…

Making my ways to earn through what I love the most — Originally published on my website History In May 2015, during the last days of college, I kept expressing a wish which no body cared to reply or attend to. They had no reason to. I casually wished to my friends I wish we had something of our own, some of us…

First published on my website Some months back I had a completely random thought We are done. Just like this sentence popped out of nowhere, I thought it’d be interesting to use it in a story where it’s completely unexpected. …

A sound of metal cupboard creaking open can be a foretelling sound of a cold quarrel soon to ensue. How do I know? It happened, that’s how I know. Imagine a timeline — Your mother is opening that metal cupboard and on top of that creaking voice asking you to…

After Sravani Saha’s Article By The Same Title — Confessions of A Medium Writer I will be honest. Brutally. Shamelessly. <Feel free to add all the adverbs that Stephen King warns you against.>medium.com I will be ruthlessly honest. I’ve been writing on Medium for about a year now. While I’ve absolutely loved the articles that have come my way from the home page and email dailies, and also the stumbling upon of one of the best and perhaps the only serious literature magazine…