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You know the modern family quote that talks about dreamers and realists needing each other? I agree most days but dreamers need each other too. People who have that weirdly same taste as you about most things in life—hanging out for hours at a bookshop, spending an afternoon…
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Do you know that feeling when you rummage through your old clothes or bags and stumble across some cash? I experienced something similar when I went…
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I recently read an article about how humans are hardwired to be optimistic. The author calls it our innate bias. Last week after a long time a friend…
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There is a term in Tamil called “poosi moluguradhu”, which roughly translates into covering it up. This is generally something I do to my slightly…
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What do you do when you fail at something spectacularly? A couple of years back I got myself a Moleskine for journaling. Excitement but lack of patience…
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Have you ever wanted to be in two places at once? The idea got into my head while watching ‘A walk to remember’. I always thought of it as a shortcut to…
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“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.” So writes Sanderson in Oathbringer…
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As I write this, it is raining in Madras. To quote Amma, “rains in Marghazi mean bad things are on the way” or as the majority of us like to call it…
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