Politician? Teacher? Activist? — Here's what my dadu was to me

I was in class fourth when I first invited a school friend to come home. The day after she asked me, ‘I thought your grandfather was a politician. Why are you not rich then?’. She was referring to the 2BHK house where our family of seven lived. I was embarrassed and went back home and asked my dad how come we weren’t rich like all politicians. 

Dear Press Club of India, it's 2022

The Press Club in Delhi is a landmark of sorts. Are you even a journalist if you haven't gone there for the greasy (but yummy) food and cheap alcohol? I attended my first Press Club meeting after joining The Wire five years ago. Hearing journalists I look up to gave me hope and made me feel proud to be a part of the industry. Let's be honest -- pride is all we get since we make bare minimum in terms of salaries and our work never stops.

Hands

Grief is a weird thing. You can read up all about it, gather as much knowledge as you want but nothing really prepares you for it.

Applying for a job? Linkedin no longer serves your (or employers’) needs

“How to write a resume”, “good CV examples” and “sample CV for job” are some of the examples of what people across the world are searching for the most. And what happens when they write these queries in Google and press ‘Enter’? 2,46,00,00,000 results show up. 

UPES webinar: Impact of technology on news media

In conversation with Dr. Nalin Mehta, dean of UPES school of Modern Media and Dr. Sanjeev Singh, associate dean of UPES school of Modern Media.

UPES webinar: Thinking like a social media influencer

In conversation with Meghnad S. (associate editor, News Laundry), Anubha Bhonsle (founder, Newsworthy, former: exec editor, CNN-IBN) and Dr. Nalin Mehta (Dean, UPES School of Modern Media; former executive editor: Times of India Online)

How to build audience engagement strategy for a newsroom trying to become financially independent

I talk about what the audience engagement strategy for Scroll.in looks like and lessons I've learn working for digital newsrooms in the last ten years. This was a part of a panel hosted by Wan-Ifra and Meta (Facebook). You can watch the full discussion here...

what grief feels/looks like

sometimes i think of it as a boulder that fell on top of me on an otherwise uneventful morning. other times i think of it as waves, that come crashing whenever i experience a moment of numbness.

if i knew you were going to die that day

i would've held your hands and marvelled at their softness

20 reasons why you need to adopt a desi doggo

Grief

Purple rain

Gold

Turmoil

Sea

Pain

Chaos

Maa

Whenever someone would ask me why I address my dadi as maa, I’d respond by saying ‘I have a mummy and I have a maa’. Mummy is .. well.. mummy. Dadi is my maa. So when my brother-in-law called me on Thursday morning saying ‘Dadi is no more’, it took a while for me to understand what he meant.

All I want for Christmas is...

It's (almost) Christmas!