For the days you need to believe something better is coming
I grew up watching a driver shift gears in an Ambassador, listening to stories of my grandma who learnt to drive at 55. I wanted that — the freedom, the control, the confidence of going wherever I wanted. It took me decades, two
driving instructors, a pandemic, and a Maruti S-Presso to get there. And then, finally — four hours each way to Sakleshpur.
Only three girls were in the class. The instructor who walked in that first day would become my brother. I did not know this yet. Neither did he. But the universe apparently did.
If I could give my daughter one gift — not a thing, not an experience, but something that would stay with her through every season of her life — it would be financial independence. Her own money. Earned by her own hands. In her own name.
Some dreams you wake from and immediately begin to forget. And then there are the other kind — the ones where you lie still after waking, afraid to move, afraid that moving will shake something loose.
A sunset so precious — the quiet gift of nature. Little we realise the sun stays, and it is the earth that moves. A short poem about light, time, and the promise of tomorrow.
A short poem about the distance between the person you are not and the one you are becoming.
When the lockdown began I sent my maid and nanny home with teary eyes, told myself it would not be long, and began the season of doing everything myself. Months later I discovered K-dramas — and something closer to restoration than I expected.
I believed in the straight line. Graduate, work, build, grow. Life had other ideas — and it took fifteen years of starting over across three countries to understand that the detours were never wasted.
A lifelong anime fan watches Bleach for the first time and finds six life lessons from Ichigo Kurosaki worth writing about — on purpose, friendship, and the power of will.
We arrived in Sydney in 2015 and I bought a second-hand fridge that had its own philosophy about temperature. What it taught me about improvisation, adjustment, and making a home somewhere new.
