PinnedA Selection of My Best ArticlesMy own personal top 5. — It’s been a long lesson in writing articles in Medium for this particular Londoner. I guess us folks (or people) in London have a particular tone in our writing — subdued, self-deprecating or as I like to say: quietly powerful. Here’s a curated list of articles that I’m proud to…1 min read1 min read
PinnedOn SufferingOscar Wilde once wrote the following: “Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.” What does it mean to suffer? Various points in history have discreetly answered this question in forms. Perhaps in a pre-Christian era…Self Improvement7 min readSelf Improvement7 min read
Oct 27, 2022The Need For The Morality PoliceThe tragic death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police in Iran has left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Bitterness is one of those emotions that exists at the lower ends of the cerebral sediment; percolating until it bubbles to the top. I have…Iran5 min readIran5 min read
Jul 13, 20215 Obstacles I Overcame To Come OutThe hoops I jumped through as a South-Asian trying to fight against the world. — At 19, I just knew that there was no more running away. It was the time when my family was having month-long weddings and I’d be hiding away from everyone in the corner or in the car park. I was in the conflicted position of having eaten some of the…Life5 min readLife5 min read
May 18, 2021You Need To Treat Writing Like It’s Magic“I’m not good with words.” There no could be no statement that is as non-sensical as that. As proof, count how many words you have spoken in your life since you could speak. Of course, such a task is impossible since we have spoken words in the millions throughout our…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Mar 26, 2020On PhilosophyFor too long we have learnt to distrust philosophy. By way of necessity, we separated God and state, and relied on the power of the rational mind in order to make way for our new golden-grey era. But is this a Fool’s Paradise? It is my contention that by losing…Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Jan 2, 2020Why The Left Has FailedBrexit’s happened and there’s nothing that you and I can do about it. That was the same uneasy sinking-in-my-stomach feeling that I had gotten only just a few years ago. I first felt it when I had stayed up all night in London to monitor the progress of the US…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
May 20, 2019On Being MasculineI was 16 and suddenly decided to shave it all off. From my face that is. My dad walked into the room, hands on his head and yelled “OH MAI GOAAARDD” in his usual Asian accent. And I thought to myself, what’s the big deal? Little did I know that…Feminism6 min readFeminism6 min read
Feb 6, 2019On GenderGender is under attack. And its guardians should be very, very afraid. For so many years, the fixed duality of gender has only benefitted two parties; the warlike who need physically able and emotionally dead soldiers to fight their battles, and the religious who need modesty culture in order to…Feminism4 min readFeminism4 min read
May 20, 2018Can We Stop Rewarding Mediocrity In Poetry?I have noticed a trend….I’d like to call it a trend but it’s become somewhat of a standard lately, of people on social media sharing what they think as and hashtag as “poetry” — and yes, I’m going to come off as a complete literary snob, but if you stick…Poetry4 min readPoetry4 min read
