When will Medium extend its partner program to Brazil, India, and Thailand? I’ve been holding my breath — and I really mean it — for Medium to extend its partner program to India. There’s a lot I’d like to write: personal essays, essays on folklore from India, travel stories, and other experiences. But I’d also like to generate some income from it…

That You’ve Forgotten Now! — Okay, so here’s a secret I’ve never told anyone. Like most of us here, I fell in love with books when I was a child. But, looking back, I had a rather strange style of reading. …

And Shield Their Energy — Highly sensitive people have the gift of empathy and the ability to feel other people’s emotions as their own. This gift is a blessing for people we care about, but it has a downside for us. HSPs are emotional and energetic sponges. We constantly absorb other people’s feelings and energy…

Because they give HSPs satisfaction and the freedom to work in a way that’s best suited for them — Most highly sensitive people do not enjoy typical 9-to-5 jobs. Commuting in traffic, frequent and unrealistic deadlines, difficult managers, and a competitive, as well as toxic corporate culture, make such work unappealing to HSPs. HSPs like to work at their own pace. They prefer to do work that is satisfying…

Choose how you begin your day — The image says it all…

We’re heading for Venus and still, we stand strong! — I don’t remember the name of the first book I read but I clearly remember how it felt. I was six years old and in the first standard at a school called New Activity in Mumbai. It was a primary school that taught students from kindergarten till the 3rd standard. …

A poem on the purity of desire — Pure aspiration in the subtle realms, Cascades as desire in the physical, But before that, it must pass through the human mind, Where it fights a thousand battles with demons of conditioned thoughts, If only it can make that passage uninterrupted, It will be held with raw intensity and love, Without fear or grasping. If the aspiration is fortunate to be thus cradled,

“Even so,” is the latest addition to my arsenal of sentence connectors in writing. I have a fairly small set of sentence connecting tools in my writing toolbox — which consists of however and but. “Watching a film is perhaps one of the most straightforward activities there is. You don’t…

A collection of eight short stories, set in urban Bangalore, that will make you reflect on the deeper questions that urban living in India entails. — (Note: The book links in this article are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, it will help me earn a small commission — without any extra cost to you. Thank You!) Everyday People by Salini Vineeth, a 31-page book is a collection of 8 short stories set…