"Saying yes is your superpower," a close friend said to me one afternoon as we sat talking. I've thought about that sentence a lot since... For the past couple of years, I have believed that most of the good things in my life have come from saying yes. Yes to opportunities. Yes to challenges. Yes to people. Yes to experiences I wasn't entirely sure I was ready for. And honestly, that belief served me well so far. Saying yes has taken me to places I never planned to go. It has

I’ve always believed I was different in a slightly inconvenient, hard-to-place way. My mind has always leaned toward rebellion. It questions, resists, imagines a world that doesn’t quite exist, and then refuses to settle for the one in front of it. For the longest time, that made me feel like an outsider. Like I was speaking a language no one around me fully understood. And then I came to Goa. My “too much” became just enough. My way of thinking didn’t make me difficult any

The heat has arrived early this year, and with it, everything feels a little more intense. Tempers, headlines, uncertainty. Another conflict is brewing in the background – same story, new location; and like most wars, it feels like something that begins loudly and ends… who knows when, or how. The markets wobble, resources feel finite, and the world appears increasingly difficult to make sense of. And yet - what can we do but continue? There are moments when my worries feel

I think I’ve been searching for a sense of familiarity. I’m fairly certain it isn’t a place or a person. Which leads me to believe it must be a feeling ; a quiet longing for a time when life was slower, simpler, and far less examined. Now and then, that feeling unexpectedly appears here in Goa. It shows up when I cycle down winding roads that lead nowhere in particular. When the air smells warm, salty, and entirely unconcerned with ambition. When I realise that I am alone, bu

After well over a year of what feels like an unveiling of who I really am, a longing for something steadier than sporadic intensity brews within me. The nights that once felt electric now invoice the mornings. When my eyes open, my heart pounds, suddenly realising that I designed the system beautifully but forgot to install the brakes. The chatter, the connections, the intoxicants that once felt like the very elixir of life slowly reveal themselves as a loyalty program for RE

2025 was all about juggling. Some things essential. Some unnecessary. And some that seemed to exist purely as a package deal. Success feels so much more worth it, when it plays hard to get. Being born at the end of January blurs timelines; the new year never feels like a clean break. One year spills into the next; the disappointment of not having achieved what you wanted, unfulfilled goals, and the awareness of a lack of direction linger way longer than they should. It feels

The last few months of the year were busy, charged, and full of possibility. And then, almost comically, just the day before NYE, everything seemed to explode. My body crashed, and my mood followed like an obedient understudy. A year ended. Another began. Technically, It’s just another day. But emotionally, it felt like a seismic shift. I’ve spent the first week of this year ricocheting between resolve and despair. Between telling myself to get it together and allowing myself

We grow up being told about the endless possibilities for our future; that the world is full of opportunities, wonderful people, and that once we finally become adults, we get to make our own rules. But do we really? Do we do our children a favour by telling them this softened, shimmering version of the truth? No wonder everyone needs a therapist. I might need one too. But my life has always been dedicated to doing things differently. Whether or not it makes sense: I was born

You move to Goa, drink some feni… and ta da - the waves wash in the susegad feels and wash out your worries. It sounds absurd, but life here really does rearrange something inside you. The poi man honks you awake every morning. “Annoying” is the first word that comes to mind, sure, but there’s poetry in irritation too right!? By sunset, the mood shifts. The day folds up neatly as the night unfurls; the world turns down its brightness, and a breeze kindly does the same to you.

I bade adieu to mountain life and moved to Goa in August 2023. The grand relocation I’d fantasised about for years. A tropical coastline, a new life, and a new me. (with new hair and everything) I pulled it off somehow, but not without its fair share of hiccups… and in trying to counter them, I made the same mistake yet again: I let the fear of being alone pick the next person I let in. Spoiler: that door slammed me harder than I care to admit. It unravelled faster than an a

I took a walk down memory lane, and for a while, it felt like time stood still. I spent the first few years of my life in Kalpa, Kinnaur; where forest spirits defined the pace of life and beautiful golden apples adorned the trees. We crunched on them as we walked to school or while we explored our magical surroundings. Deodar trees constituted the majority of the population, and if you spent enough time with them, you’d surely recognise their unique personalities. It was a sm

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