At the end of every momentous year (yes, I do consider every year to be momentous in its own way), I tend to mentally declutter or rather spring clean my mind. As I have often mentioned in the past, being an introvert and living […]
Category: Personal
A Home Away From Home
It has been more than a year ( my first post was on the 27th of August, 2022, to be precise) that I have been blogging on Vivaldi. I began in last August and have not given up on blogging despite the regular hiccups […]
December & I
November quivers each time it is destined to leave my threshold. Decembers enters my doorway, dark, deep and somber. It has been such for the last 12 years. I do not wish to reveal the details of the somberness of December through my writings. […]
Going Old School
Our lives seem to have radically changed with the advent of the smartphone. Personally speaking, I liked the dumb phone (the one with the typing keypad) much better. I still have one which I would love to carry with me to work had there […]
Happy Halloween
Wishing all my readers a very Happy Halloween ! Enjoy a spooky one 🙂 Au revoir !
Welcome Autumn !
Autumn waltzes in languidly in tropical countries. We often do not see her colors as those residing in colder climes do. We feel her mellow footsteps in the air with the gradual departure of the subcontinental monsoon (the rainy season). Although vestiges of Autumn […]
In Defense of the Written Word
Speaking less has its benefits. You expend less energy. You are less misunderstood. You do not have to tailor-make your words for the audience concerned, You become a silent observer of things both necessary as well as unnecessary. And finally, you do not react […]
The Difference Between “Blogging” and “Posting”
Long ago before the advent of social media sites like Orkut and Facebook, diarists and bloggers were a predominant feature in the world wide web. However, with the advent of the above-mentioned sites, coupled with the discovery (by the populace of course) of photo-blogging […]
The Slowness of Being
Most writers these days tend to ruminate about the insanely fast paced life that we are thrust into. It is definitely a stark reality that we, the creative people are faced with. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), everything seems to have become […]
Casual Thoughts on a Busy Morning
What would happen if you stopped giving your opinion to everything? Would your erstwhile opinions wither away from the public memory or would they linger on as archived opinions? Would the society still judge a silent human being ? Thoughts to ponder on….au revoir […]