How can one be a successful freelance writer? Here is the documented journey of someone who has tried and tested most prescribed methods.
How to be a freelance writer | Documenting my journey
Vulnerability to stories | Calling all story enthusiasts | Pakoda Tales
Yuval Harrari mesmerizingly explains in Sapiens how stories and humans’ ability to create and tell stories sets us apart from rest of the species on the planet. It makes us believe in the metaphysical and directs us to coordinate in sometimes unexplained ways. The understanding that our whole lives are just as much a constituent... Continue Reading →
Jane the Virgin | Netflix
A classic that does not try too hard is just what we need for a steady supply of content for everyday leisurely binge. Jane the Virgin on Netflix with its heart warming narration and simple yet oh-so-effective making offers just that. When I started out, I did not expect much from the show but it... Continue Reading →
The omnipresent alter ego
I wonder how many of us have a whole other world created within our minds that we resort to whenever our realties become not as favourable as we’d like. I often read social media posts about how a lot of people hoard their minds with fictional characters that are perfect in their worlds within the... Continue Reading →
Defining ambition with proximity
For a lot of youngsters hailing from rural India, ambition gets defined with the distance that they have to travel in order to fulfil it. Moving to urban areas has been, for a long time, an underlying requisite catering to the phenomenon of fulfilment of ambitions. And in a lot of ways, it still is.... Continue Reading →
The insignificant mind controllers
At 25, a whole new set of dynamics of life begin unfolding and it is a consistent struggle to keep up with the world – at least for me. For someone mesmerized by and very conscious of human psyche and behaviour, it is a much bigger challenge to be keeping oneself convinced that things have... Continue Reading →
The fair share of disappointments
One thing that I have seen a lot of people struggle dealing with is disappointments in life. There are very few in the world, or at least around me, who seem to lose control over all they have believed about themselves when something goes the way they did not prefer. Dealing with disappointments in life,... Continue Reading →
The art of moving on
I’m sure everyone comes across a phase of getting over an experience that went completely against the mental norms of wellness. From break ups to workplace embarrassments, plenty of experiences push the mental state to a place where moving on becomes an absolute necessity for sanity. And even with something so commonplace, we often struggle... Continue Reading →
Dear love
Knowing me; not me, not anyone would have predicated I’d ever be lost in thoughts of a ‘someone’ so different from my way of life. I haven’t yet realized the true potential of this unconventional bond but oftentimes I spend time in my head imagining how incredible it would have been. It’s strange isn’t it,... Continue Reading →
The best thing about Bollywood movies
I belong that category of people who have a lot to criticise about Bollywood cinema. And there’s no disapproving that category – there is in fact quite a lot of things we can pick out as wrong or unnatural when it comes to Hindi cinema. However, it doesn’t rule out the fact that there are... Continue Reading →
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