Category: Writing

Writing Philosophy in a Blurb.

My writing practice is undergirded by the ethic of representation and recovery, a response to the chaos of the everyday mayhem where where things seems just about ‘normal’. Writing ethnographic archives is the core of my written word artistic practice. Long term projects are painstakingly hard, takes a lot of time, yet the series of conversations with Autowallahs and Cabbies are a glimpse in to urban life, entrepreneurship, tech innovation and the view from below. It is a chronicle of agency more than any other tangential impulse.

Aatma Nirbhar.

I have always been kiasu, paranoid to fail and a determined vitae building machine since my high school days. The elusive fear of success, drives me to think that I am worthless and link my sense of self worth to what I do. 2020 has given me a new lens of worth that I can be worthy as I can create projects and initiatives digitally on my own with the help of kind souls who share a common vision.

One does not have to be necessarily affiliated with a brand to create value. One can be a brand themselves in this remote era. The gig economy has created an economy of contractors and a different mindset is needed to succeed. My journey has been turbulent this year but the clarity can be very peaceful.

Aatma Nirbhar or self reliance , is a frame of mind rather than a political slogan.

No Short Cuts.

Coaching senior technical professionals in their writing journeys is often tied to their inherent biases and opening their black box of thinking more than the ‘act’ of writing itself.

Engineers and architects are obsessed with the input-output process and the are keen to decode the art, by reverse engineering. As an engineer with a masters degree, I am acutely aware of these heuristics. But writing is an expression of the self, an act of creation. The grammar book does not teach you effective writing. #writing #growthmindset

Writer First.

A visiting card made a decade back in Singapore during my masters at NUS when it was still a corporate accessory. Glad to see that the vocations are still the same, with a passion for social justice in development. The Writer descriptor is primary now, always was.