One of the most inconvenient outcomes of an extended work from home situation for most of us during this phase of lockdowns due to the novel coronavirus has been the interspersed fragments of time that we used to know as boundaries. In the normal way of life, these boundaries used…

We have various reasons for having our own choices of music. At a certain age, we make or break friends depending on whether their taste in music coincides with our own. At a different point in our lives, we abolish such criteria instead keeping our music in a separate verse…

The quality of a night spent in drinking by myself is mostly determined by the intoxication, the food, and the number of inopportune text messages I send out to people. The lesser, the better. Of late, there have been no such cases and I have managed to maintain an uncanny…

“Looks like rain,” mutters Geralt, mounted atop Roach, seemingly lost in search of nothing in particular save the gamer’s behest. The iconic statement, now a thing of videogaming pop culture of the same stature as that of the Skyrim guard’s “Arrow in the knee”, is a sign of reverence that…

“I want to talk to you.” The air whispered to the man who was standing nearby taking a picture of the sunlight filtering in through the window and lighting up the wooden floor. Two chairs and a small round table were laid by the windowpane. …

I have always loved certain things besides books and they are noodles, soup and video games. All of them have one thing in common — they are comforting. Although I did not fully understand the warm solace of hot noodle soup as I enjoy a bowl of noodle soup while…

Sean Murray’s potential masterpiece is just 12 days from launch. In honour of that, I bring you on a cosy Sunday: No Man’s Omelette. We all start wondering at some point — today is Sunday. Sunday is the day — we all exclaim. We usually get up at around 9…

“Sir, coffee or tea?” The mind enters a maze of preferential analysis — starting with the image of tea with a mild colour and then coffee with the typical froth. For some, it is a simple choice. For me, it depends on the place and the price. I ask myself…

It’s a rainy day today. Well, it’s probably raining in most places in India at this time. The view outside my window is an amalgamation of sprawling cityscape and two distant little hills obscured by rain. In my family, it is customary on a rainy day to ditch our traditional…