Slice of Life | Accepting my femininity and why you should too (regardless of gender and sexuality)

I have pretended to hate the colour pink with utmost passion all my life, sometimes to appear cooler or sometimes to impress other men. Until not recently I have equated womanhood with victimhood. I rejected anything and everything feminine that would make me appear weak. I believed (or was made to believe) that the only …

Book Review | Brief History of Time

I think I was 12 years old when my uncle gifted me a set of Encyclopaedia consisting of 3 DVDs about nature, the human body and our universe. The only encyclopaedia I couldn't leave alone was "Our Universe". It became a routine after school to spend hours learning about each and every planet. This fascination …

Book Review | Wuthering Heights? More like Narcissistic Heights!

I love reading classics, especially Gothic Fiction. It's dark, mysterious, there are morally grey characters, gloomy settings, horror and death! What's not to like! It's fascinating really to think people wrote something like this almost a century back, the time when we think humanity was not as bad as it is now.So one of the …

Book Review | The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed

In 2020, like everyone else, my screen time rocketed to the point where I hurt my thumb due to infinite scrolling. To deal with this new pain with the ongoing suffering of the pandemic I was constantly trying to find something soothing and comforting. Luckily, in that pursuit, I found a podcast by John Green …

Book Review | Absurdity of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

I find it absolutely wonderful when I read a fantasy book and it directly correlates to my simple, boring life. I just completed reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and I can't believe how exactly resonating this Novella was. I mean there are books about love, mental health, magic, being poor, struggling with life and death, …

Unsolicited Advice | How we make our own lives miserable

How many times have you read this on the internet- "You are your own source of happiness". And how many times have you rolled your eyes after reading this? No? Okay only me then. I was sceptical of this line for a very long time until I started therapy. It was surprising how shifting my …

Book Review | The immorality of Lolita

Do you ever wish you could read people's mind? I do, multiple times. Isn't it all so exciting to know what secrets are harboured in another person's head, especially a very handsome, artistic, literary genius. I'd surely want to read that guys mind. But the truth is being in anyone's mind is a horrible place …

Book Review | If Shakespeare had a sister

If you go back around the time of Elizabeth you'll realise every other man was very much capable of writing brilliant sonnets and songs. It took several decades for a woman (Aphra Behn) in English literature to come forward and start earning professionally from her writing (it was her only means of survival because all …

Book Review | Applying Schrödinger’s Cat paradox to real life

Storytime. Our boy Will Grayson tries to live his life without being noticed and finds romance drama unbearable. He somehow ends up with a crush on a girl called Jane. Or maybe not. He is oftentimes confused about whether he likes Jane or not. She eventually gets tired of Wills indecisiveness and gets back with …

Unsolicited Advice | How I manage my Anxiety

Four years ago, going through 2-3 panic attacks a day was a norm for me. That resulted in poor physical health, toxic relationships, bad career choices, and a warped sense of reality. It took a near life and death nervous break down to realise that something needs to change for me to survive. It took …