If it ain’t shocking you, it ain’t shaking you. On a Wednesday morning, Santosh Mane stole the bus master key at the depot, picked a random bus to drive and mowed 9 people to death on the busy streets of Pune. It included office goers, school children and workers walking to their site. The whole city …
Use them liberally. Quotes are a useful expression of language. They are the original SMS (short message service) Like English, my mother tongue, Marathi is replete with them. They fit the situations aptly. No explanation is needed. Most languages have numerous synonyms that mean the exact same thing. Yet, we prefer to use one word …
Against all instinct, I decided to give it a try. That evening, I sat down to give journaling a go.New pen, nice moleskin book. Three minutes passed. Five minutes. No earth-shattering, inspirational or profound thoughts came to mind. Nothing that I felt gratitude for beyond the satisfaction that I exist. Sigh! There it was again, …
Traffic noise is music to my ears sometimes. That day my speaker broke down, leaving me to listen to parrot calls, screeching squirrels, and moaning cats. Yes, you’d say, far better than the noise of traffic, construction, or loud people. True, who wants to listen to human noises all day? But I’m not getting any …
You already know what the best thing is. I often used to watch my grandfather with a book. He was either writing one or reading one. My grubby toddler hands would wrap themselves around a tome that he had discarded, and I’d flip the pages to find what fascinated him so much. To my dismay, it …
If the study of history is your worst nightmare, this can help. There is no imagination without the past. There is no past without stories. Scrolling through Instagram, I landed on the post of a traveller who was Damascus. That’s in..umm… Syria, I realized. She went on to share photos of Byzantine churches, lavish mosques …
Between If You Want to Survive The Grind As A New Writer, You Need To Adopt These 7 Practices It’s a jungle out there. Adopt, then build your own practices. Breathe. I often have to remind myself. And not just when I am climbing mountains. Ideas to be captured, research to be completed. Check, check. …
The thrill of alpinism is unparalleled. It’s the adventure of all adventures. The person undertaking this endeavour is an alpinist whom the dictionary describes as a mountain climber specializing in high, difficult and usually first ascents. Alpinism challenges your physical and mental limits pushing you to your absolute limit. On the other hand, a writer …
That is pretty much what we did — walking for about 8 hours every day for 35 days. Simply focused on covering the distance, eating, and sleeping, only to repeat the same routine the next day. I had not given walking any thought until I realized that was all I would do — consuming 35 …
