• What Value a Writer Adds to Writing — And What AI Cannot

    Writers remain irreplaceable because they create knowledge from lived, conscious experience, while AI can only recycle what has already been known.

  • Book Review: Memes for Mummyji: Making Sense of Post-Smartphone India

    A sharp, readable collection of cultural observations on post-smartphone India, Memes for Mummyji is engaging and wide-ranging but remains constrained by its column-like format, often sacrificing depth and coherence for brevity and immediacy.

  • On Finding Your Writing Style

    What is your writing style? How do you develop it? Here’s a simple answer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • On Therapeutic Reading

    Here are a few principles that would help you turn ordinary reading into a healing practice.

  • 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.