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Sometimes I hope...

"It’s the seeming impossibility of it all that makes it even prettier, makes people want it all the more. Seeing others “hustle” and work 25 hours a day, where do they find that drive? I wonder if they feel happy." I grab a cup of coffee, look out my window as the sunlight peeps through it. I decide to take a break from the work I was procrastinating on and go sit outside to bathe myself under the winter sun. It’s a rare occasion, a sunny day, especially when you live in a place where winter is not beautiful, it’s just bitterly cold and the skies are painted with apocalyptic hues of blue and grey. As I begin to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and sip on my hot cappuccino, I let myself wander away with the thoughts, questions I usually keep running in the back of my mind… “We are in 2020, no, 2021, NO, 2022! Yeah, surprise surprise, you’re in the third year of this dreadful decade, the “pandemic era”. Your life seems to have come to a halt, but time hasn’t. How? I am sti...
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Online Dating- A Bell Jar?

  “The idea of putting ourselves out there consistently makes us feel vulnerable, not empowered, or that we’re moving ahead with the times. Not being able to find matches, not knowing how to keep up with the mainstream generation, or even oneself makes online dating less an allure, and more a challenge.” Too short? Left. Too tall? Left. Too skinny? Left. Too narcissistic? Left. Too cliché? Left. Doesn’t like Taylor Swift??? LEFTTTT. The swiping spree has become the talk of the town and it’s 2021, if you’re not swiping left and right already, what are you even doing? Although considered a fairly new-age concept in India, dating apps have found a permanent home in the app libraries of many out there. And it is the failed attempt at novelty that intrigues me the most. Why do you ask? Look at the foundations the app is built upon, you check out a person’s profile (blueprint would be the more appropriate choice of word) and are expected to sneak a peek into their soul. The blueprint is ...
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The Curious Case of the Privileged Few

"  No doubt, this mammoth of a headline was optically quite amusing, but digging deeper, it pushed up questions that affected nothing if not our anxiety . After all, I myself gave my blood, sweat, and tears into its preparation. Okay, maybe blood, sweat, and tears? a tad too   hyperbolized , but trust me, this was the case for thousands of students. Thousands of students for whom these scores were probably synonymous to the name of their desired university, their desired course, their ever aspired degree.  "
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