Category Archives: Self Help
Khairtabad – The Place That Raised Me
Khairtabad! Ahhh… even saying the name feels like exhaling a memory. A small area on the banks of Hussain Sagar Lake, right at the heart of Hyderabad. There’s a portion of me that still exists here, quietly tucked between its streets and stories. Life always seemed to slow down in Khairtabad. You breathe a little […]
Why the Word Spirituality Never Existed in India’s Dharma – A Memory from Varanasi
It was twenty-five years ago, in Varanasi. I had run away from Hyderabad, weighed down by debts, confusion and questions. A friend, worried that I might lose myself, took me to meet a sadhu. He said, half-joking and half-serious, “Maybe this man can make you see sense and send you back.” The meeting happened in […]
An Angel Who Walks Beside Me
It’s not rain this time. It’s something else, something quieter, yet more powerful, that changed me. You see, there are moments in life when a person walks in…not with fanfare, not with noise, but with the quiet strength of love and kindness. And suddenly, the broken pieces of your heart start finding their way back […]
Missing the Carefree 80s–90s: When Life Was Simple, Laughter Was Real, and Memories Weren’t Made on Screens
There was a time—not too long ago—when joy wasn’t downloaded, but discovered. When friends didn’t need Wi-Fi to connect, and “status” had nothing to do with blue ticks or filters. We’re talking about the 80s and 90s—those golden decades where life was delightfully analog, gloriously unpredictable, and beautifully imperfect. Back then, happiness had a different […]
What My Grandmother Revealed: The 10 Lies of the Brahma Kumaris — A True Story that Shook My Faith in What I Thought Was Spirituality
I never imagined that one afternoon in 2014 would unravel a mystery that had begun silently fourteen years earlier. Let me take you back. It was the year 2000. I was still young, brimming with curiosity, with just enough exposure to philosophy to ask annoying questions at family functions. But that year, my family wasn’t […]
THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
They gunned him down in broad daylight—his life extinguished in seconds before his bride’s horrified eyes. His identity as a Dalit, Brahmin, Rajput, Jat, Gujjar or Kayastha? IRRELEVANT. Whether he spoke Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, or Assamese? MEANINGLESS. If he voted for BJP’s Modi, Congress’s Rahul, AAP’s Kejriwal, or TMC’s Mamata? INSIGNIFICANT. In […]
Long-Form Content: The Forgotten Path to Deep Thinking and True Attention
Building Patience in a Click-Driven World What if the very thing you’re trying to escape—boredom, slowness, silence—is actually the key to unlocking sharper thinking, stronger focus, and a more grounded life? In a world obsessed with speed, swipes, and surface-level takes, long-form content can feel like a quiet rebellion. It doesn’t promise instant answers or […]
Boxing – The Classroom of Life
Boxing taught me what schools and colleges never could. It didn’t just teach me how to throw a punch. It taught me how to take one—straight on the face—and stay calm. How to lose/fail in front of a crowd and keep going. How to stand back up when every nerve, every muscle and every fiber […]
Handwriting Vs Digital Writing, Benefits of Handwriting in the Digital Era
In this Digital Era, Why Writers Should Still Use Pen and Paper Why My Pen Still Touches Paper As screens dominate our lives and keyboards become extensions of our fingertips, I stubbornly cling to what my tech-savvy friends mock as a relic from the past: my habit of writing by hand. As a writer with […]
The Kumbh Mela: A Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self
Paulo Coelho, in his timeless work The Alchemist, beautifully reflects, “The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That’s the way it will be with our love for each other.” This profound observation resonates deeply with the human condition: our physical forms, like shifting sands, are ever-changing, while our true essence, […]