The 2025 Roundup
As the year draws to a close, I realized I have done a fair amount of writing across various themes, languages, and platforms. I also appeared in a few intervie...
Category: Diary
The Settlers Who Want to Belong in Goa
This morning I woke up to a crowdfunding appeal by a filmmaker who said they were not from Goa but had settled in Aldona. The central question of their short fi...
The Car My Father Left Behind
As a man in his 30s, one is often doomed to encounter finance influencers warning about the perils of buying a house and the restraint one must exercise when pu...
Reflections on learning Portuguese (Reflexões Sobre Aprender Portuguese)
I am now at the fag end of my stay in Lisbon. I arrived here towards the end of July, after much running around for a visa. I began my intensive Portuguese cour...
Country with anger issues
Often, I tweet random thoughts and they get shared and liked on twitter in the most unexpected ways. Initially, I used to further engage and clarify my position...
Hello from Lisbon
Hello from Lisbon! I have been camping here since August sharpening my Portuguese skills. My arrival here was due towards end of June. However, my visa got dela...
पोर्तुगीज आफ्रिका आणि आफ्रिकेतील गोमंतकीय समाज
सुएला ब्रेव्हरमन महिन्याकाठी किती खळबळजनक विधानं करते त्याचा हिशेब ठेवणं आता अशक्य झालं आहे. हा लेख लिहिण्यापर्यंत ‘होमलेसनेस हा एक लाइफस्टाइल चॉईस आहे...
Making tech ethical – a lost cause?
I quit Computer Science for good in 2014. Not for any ethical reasons. The college I was enrolled in to pursue my post-graduate degree made me ask some basic qu...
Hello from Philadelphia
It has been two months since I arrived in Philadelphia, and I have wanted to resume regular blogging about my time here. Not to ‘create content’ or ...
The burden of humility
In the past two days, I have read two brilliant pieces of writing, Divya Malhari’s blog post on ‘A God of Small Things’ and Prof Suryakant Waghmore’s essay on H...