quick scribbles: 19.12.25 / taken time off from work / wrapping up my reading for the year / one book to go / trying to ignore the motes of dust that fall copiously on everything in this neighbourhood / still in love with trees / Saw Shrinking on Apple TV and realised all one wants... Continue Reading →
short notes: 16.11.25 / been here and there / watching the TV series Dark and having my mind scrambled / religiously reading every day to meet my reading goal for 2025 / bought new lenses for experiments with photography / submitted poems / acclimatising to the onset of winter / ❄️ 🍜
Sprinkled Sentiments #20
500. I don't like going to the mall on a weekend. The crowd makes me feel lonely. I also don't like having to wait in long lines at the changing rooms. I also don't like crowds. 499. Lately, I am trying to watch movies which remind me why cinema has been cinema. It is an... Continue Reading →
Sprinkled Sentiments #19
475. I wonder if the night is old and wise. Or if the night is fresh and undiluted. Because it is a new night every time. Or: the notes I make inside my journal. 474. I am hugely grateful to Spotify / YouTube Music for using the Urdu script to display the lyrics whenever they're... Continue Reading →
Books Read in 2020
God, Hermes and Star by Zbigniew HerbertFour New Stories by Lorrie MooreSelf Help by Lorrie MooreDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukStudy of the Object by Zbigniew HerbertAnagrams by Lorrie MooreLost Connections by Johann HariCity of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertTin Man by Sarah WinmanBritt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik BackmanSmall Days... Continue Reading →
Sprinkled Sentiments #18
450. If there's the F-word in a song, it immediately puts me off. For the life of me, I cannot understand why a song needs to have the F-word in a regular context. I'm not even going to try and unpack this for myself. 449. Today, I recalled something I had forgotten. Last year, I... Continue Reading →
The 3 Minute Podcast
During the lockdown, I did a lot of things that were uncharacteristically me. One of them was running a podcast. It started about as a very nascent thought. As someone who hasn't been a fan of podcasts, I imagined this to be a small podcast, running for only 3 minutes, hence the name. However, when... Continue Reading →
Sprinkled Sentiments #17
425. I think something is off in Ocean Vuong's book 'On Earth We are Gorgeous Briefly'. I know the world and its sisters have loved it, but I tend to feel that the sparing use of full sentences put me off reading it. No sweat. I will pick it up again in this month and... Continue Reading →
Sprinkled Sentiments #16
400. I have to admit it somewhere, so it might as well be here. I read a major chunk of Refusing Heaven and I didn't understand a major chunk of it. What I know from this experience is that I still have learning to do. And that makes me happy. For isn't it wonderful to... Continue Reading →
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