Independent writing

  • Patient Pessimism: Coping with the Death of Global Health

    Since January 20, 2025, global health is bursting with good-faith arguments on why US led foreign aid needs to be saved. This is a coping mechanism for…

  • The One Where They All Turn Thirty

    I. Something uncanny happened this September. I found the TV show Friends referenced three consecutive times. First, it came up in the show Monsters: The Lyle and…

  • We don’t have time.

    Couldn’t find the time. For the longest time,Just haven’t had the time. It’s funny, isn’t it?Biding your time. Being so occupiedthat you haven’t had the timeto realize…

  • Meander

    He wants me to feel at home. And suddenly, he himself does not. He has looked into my eyes, and is reminded of that which neither died…

  • Home is not a place

    People stop to look at flowers.They take pictures of the full moon.There’s solace in witnessing these things,even asyou will pick flowers for them no more,and for whatever…

  • After

    It arrives, as a gaze falling on your face, unfamiliar, for the last time. It lives, carving out dreams within the words of a rhyme. It leaves,…

  • Shaam ka rang

    Shaam ka rangbahot pasand hai mujhe,Paanch baje ke baadApni zindagi wapas milne ke ehsaas seAap kabhi bore nahi ho sakte. Us raat ko, Keylong mein,Har pahaad par…

  • March is for Magnolias

    March is for magnolias.The water at Port Meadow ambles in my favourite colour once again.First conversations and last hugs.And such naïve convictions about falling in love. A…

  • Reciting Faiz in bed

    Have you recited Faiz in bed?Told someone that love was off the table?Because you go through life not fearing lonelinessBut the possibility of companionship,the promise of love,a…