zigzackly’s omnium-gatherum

I was thinking the other day about the arts and making a living doing art. And I went from there to thinking about stand-up comedy as an ...

The problem with artistic / creative pursuits is making a living doing them, especially early in a career. A few, very few, will make...

I just realised that one of the things I miss most about Chembur, where I lived between ten years old and mid-20s, is the number of peop...

There are four reasons (that I can think of) why people change religions. 1. A change from within, a new belief system. Faith cha...

I realise how your allies deceived me With cooked-up books that I mistook for growth So take away the vikas that you gave me And send the...

Whatever your opinion of the politics or policies of independent India’s first crop of leaders, the ones who had fought for independence,...

(Taking off from this list .) Alcapone: Percussion with a baseball bat. Aldente: Signal to the soloist to just noodle a bit while th...

This a more-links-added, lightly edited, slightly rearranged version of a Twitter thread I made, which starts here . My parents Clar...

Last night, I went for a walk pretty late; it was midnight when I started out. The roads were almost deserted, as is natural in a resident...

Welcome to a little crowd-sourced project, mapping and listing indie bookstores in India. There are 131 of them so far. (Last edit: 7th O...