Perspectives

  • Food for Thought

    “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”— William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

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  • How Interesting are you?

    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world. I mean everybody- no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds…Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.” (Neil Gaiman, The

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  • A Lesson in Empathy

    15-year-old Mihir Ahmed’s suicide and the following unravelling of the incidents that could have possibly led to the tragedy is deeply unsettling. A ninth standard student from Tripunithara (Kerala, India) committed suicide on 15th January 2025 and the family alleges bullying from his school mates to be the reason behind his death. To say the

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  • Desire

    All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to

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  • Awaiting Spring

    The evening sky has always had an enchanting hold on me as it invokes a strange blend of emotions in my mind. Emotions, that are ineffable and which often fill my heart with unreasoned sadness. The sky had a camouflage of greyish blue and red as the last rays of the sun kissed the earth. The gentle

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