Category: Us people

  • To Pant is Human, To Purr is Essential.

    To Pant is Human, To Purr is Essential.

    A cat empress asks questions humans forget to ask, while sweatpants, uniforms, and quiet wisdom remind us that essence, not excess, is where dignity curls up and purrs.

  • Fear As Identity

    Fear As Identity

    This piece reflects on how repeated narratives of fear and grievance shape the collective emotional climate in India. Drawing from social psychology and yogic perspectives, it explores how survival-based thinking can weaken mature agency, narrow empathy, and lead to reactive patterns in everyday life. Rather than focusing on politics or personalities, the essay looks at…

  • Self-Care With Crime

    Self-Care With Crime

    On difficult days, soup and crime fiction regulate the nervous system, externalize danger, restore order, and remind us why resolution feels deeply, psychologically necessary.

  • Two Influencers.

    Two Influencers.

    Using history as metaphor, this essay examines how societies create, reward, and sustain influence—whether it comforts power or confronts it.

  • When The Gods Sleep

    When The Gods Sleep

    A Sunday morning unfolds around Tiruppavai, huggi, and quiet conversation, revealing how Dhanurmasa transforms ordinary kitchens into spaces of ritual, memory, and song.

  • 2025 The Year End Reflection.

    2025 The Year End Reflection.

    “Reflection isn’t nostalgia or regret; it’s how we honor loss, harvest lessons, laugh at ourselves, and step forward carrying wisdom instead of unfinished baggage.”