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On Finding Your Writing Style
What is your writing style? How do you develop it? Here’s a simple answer.
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How Language Heals
The essay explores how language shapes human experience and meaning, showing that the way we name and narrate our inner world can transform vague suffering into something understandable and shareable.
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Book Review: Lightning in a Shot Glass
Lightning in a Shot Glass is a breezy, cinematic-feeling romantic comedy following two women, Meera and Aalo, through their personal and professional lives, where light-hearted prose masks deeper commentary on social issues making the novel entertaining yet insightful.
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Writing in the Time of AI
A meditation on why AI may perfect the mechanics of writing, but can never replace the human voice, style, and more importantly, our inner need to express ourselves.
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On Therapeutic Reading
Here are a few principles that would help you turn ordinary reading into a healing practice.
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A Confession: Leo Tolstoy’s Quest for Meaning of Life
This essay explores Tolstoy’s A Confession as a journey from intellectual despair to spiritual clarity, revealing how the search for meaning ultimately leads beyond reason into the grounding simplicity of faith and lived experience.
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How to Read Dostoevsky: Start with Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is the most accessible doorway into Dostoevsky because it condenses all his major themes—freedom, self-destruction, consciousness, and the longing for dignity—into one short, psychologically intense narrative. Let’s enter this world.
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What is Bibliotherapy?
What is bibliotherapy? It’s a question many of you have been asking me, of late. Let me explain.