As with most Sundays, I sit at home in front of my laptop, enjoying the rainy weather we’ve been having. Shadab has touched down in Singapore. It’s been more than 5 years since we left Mauritius, and yet the bond remains, just as it does with Dhruv. B and I have been brainstorming for fh the…
Under the weather.
It’s a nice Monday, but I’m spending it at home, on medical leave. Feeling extremely unproductive, but at the same time, medication is making me super drowsy that I can’t really do anything productively. Perhaps when I’m feeling better, I can get back to the work I need to complete and also kickstart ideas that…
Renewed motivation
It’s been eons since I last took to a blog platform. Parlaying over water cooler banter with B the other day, it suddenly dawned upon me that I no longer document the events and conversations in my life anymore, and that was a bit of a sombre revelation… What do I have to look back…
In the dead of the night, literally.
In the midst of all the electoral propaganda preceding the long-awaited GE2015 in Singapore, I’ve still been trying to overcome my habitual procrastination and writer’s block; talk about being self-absorbed. I’m lying in bed as I type this, staring blankly into white space – before I return to reading “The Transient Wife” for the millionth…
The Limits of Memory
Originally posted on Love in the Spaces:
You have insufficient memory. Deadpan. As if no irony were involved, my computer informed me it had aborted the task of uploading digital pictures. I don’t ask that much of my computer, but there you have it. I had amassed more than 1300 photos on my wee camera.…
From Great Universities to “Knowledge Factories”: Another American Institution in Decline
Originally posted on ACADEME BLOG:
Thomas Frank, perhaps best known for What’s the Matter with Kansas?, an examination of America’s new conservatism, has an article in Salon, “The New Republic, the torture report, and the TED talks geniuses who gutted journalism.” Toward the end, he writes this: The new press lord’s deeds are all made possible by…
On Ferguson – The System Isn’t Broken, It Was Built This Way
Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
I have an uncle who was a cop. His kids, my cousins, were around my age and when we visited our family in Québec every summer I practically lived at their house. As soon as we got to my grandmother’s house, all rumpled and grumpy from our eight hour…
I don’t know if this is a Christmas story
I’ll admit, it was just that one line, that one statement that shook my stony exterior. This is beautiful.
The start of something new.
“It’s better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.” – Simon Sinek It’s been a long time since I wrote something – be it an essay, a short story, a blog post or even conversing in full, proper sentences on text and the whatnot. The irrational (okay,…
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