This is where I write.

पहाड़ की मिट्टी , तनिक लग लन दे जे धुल तोरे तन पे, तनिक चढ़ लन दे मैं जानू जे धुप, तोरी काया सताय जाय खुजलाय, जाय लाल बनाय पर फिर गरमाए, तोहे खूब लुभाय इस खिलते सूरज को, तोहे छू लन दे पहाड़ की मिट्टी , तनिक लग लन दे मैं जानू के लोगन Read more

  I had been meaning to write this post for a year now. I experienced Kerala in its full glory last year for the first time. Now that next Onam has arrived, this post is long due. ….. I had limited exposure to Kerala. Growing up, I knew only two things about Kerala – it Read more

As I pack my bags and leave the city of Bangalore and reflect on the two years that I spent here, I couldn’t be more grateful to these two years for showing me the India that I was so little aware of. I was so ignorant that I couldn’t easily distinguish between scripts and speech Read more

At the core of any customer support system is empathy. Grofers, the online grocery delivery service demonstrated this very well recently. After hearing about them from my colleagues and friends, I used their app for the first time. I have had some bad experiences with other such apps. But due to recommendations from friends, I Read more

When I came across this, I got a brain freeze for few seconds. And then storm of questions hit me. Is it the lack of education in UPites in general ? But then, is education so critical and fundamental that on an average , its absence  causes people to make as ridiculous choices as Mulayam and Read more

First time I wrote a letter was when I was 12. Probably. My mother is so sweet, she encouraged us – me and my sister – to write to our Nana who lived with the rest of our maternal family in village Naultha (Haryana). In primary school, we learned to write only on ruled paper. Read more