My First Salary
In 1976, when ₹998 felt like a fortune and a bank visit felt like an examination, I learned that money grows slowly, but embarrassment compounds instantly.
Ten Life-Changing Lessons I Wish My Younger Self Learned, But Didn’t.
Important Life Changing Lessons a Young Person Should have mastered before it is too late. Your future self will Thank you for reading this now.
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A cold October night at Eeranpadi PHC
What happens when a clinic stays open after hours, and a teacher walks in with nothing left but shame and hope?
This stayed with me. I wanted to share it with you because sometimes healing begins quietly, when no one is watching.
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Leaves I Let the Wind Keep
This poem teaches that understanding is shaped as much by absence as by presence.
The mind becomes clearer not when it gathers more thoughts, but when it learns which thoughts no longer need a home.
It is a poem about maturity, about peace earned slowly, and about the quiet confidence of a mind that no longer needs to answer every knock.
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The Day He Walked in
The house had prepared itself for grief, not for return. In that single moment, relief arrived faster than the heart could follow.
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My Amma’s story
“She opened the drawer to prepare for her son’s return, and found an entire life waiting there instead.”
The Masterpiece
Kunjappan Master left behind neither children, wealth, nor recognition.
He left behind a life that continued, a song that returned,
and a moment that proved that even in the most fearful seasons,
human kindness can become the strongest medicine of all.
Aegeus & Theseus: Stories from Greek Mythology
Bound by love, torn by duty, and undone by one forgotten promise, the story of Aegeus and Theseus reminds us that even heroes can change the fate of kingdoms with a single choice
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The Price of Victory: Jason, Medea, and the Return to Iolcos: Stories From Greek Mythology
They returned with the Golden Fleece gleaming in the sun, yet behind its victory lay blood on the waves, broken promises in halls of power, and a truth every hero must face, that some triumphs are paid for long after the journey ends.
The Lamp That Still Waits for Wind
In the end, this poem does not argue that love failed. It suggests something more haunting, that love succeeded in changing us, and that change is what makes goodbye unbearable. The lamp still waits, not because it believes the wind will come, but because waiting is the last way love knows how to stay alive.
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