There is too much pressure to define oneself as per the neat categorisations of the LinkedIn header. Agile should not only be an adjective, let us embrace the verb too. Life is messy.

The devotional music paying homage to Sabrimala and Lord Ayyappa sonically enveloping the community centric diaspora store with a Puja offerings section and the spices section stocking up on MDH and Shan opens the possibility of the transnational as a local site of familiar sensibilities. The emotional switchboard in the words of Prof Ato is electric and immediate and transports me to temple town Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu being present physically in Singapore, which is a global site for Tamil Culture.Cultural bubbles in the everyday are the placeholders of the creole in the multicultural global city.

The lifeblood of millions of families. Remittances matter. I grew up on them.

Since the past year, there has been an evaporation of ambition and the dream has been a blur, which i feel is normal in a world which has undergone so much loss.

Or the sublimation creates a new frame for the dream, where new rules are created?