Why I love, breathe and write cities
On the allure of urban living, its opportunities, cultural riches, and sheer potential
Quick commerce & life at human scale
The everyday intentionality in the inconvenience of living life at human scale
On taking running notes in the longhand
Longhand note-taking as a way of deliberate existence
What to write when you can't write
Writer's block or too many ideas or maybe just a fear of losing subscribers — the many modern day blogging conundrums
My year of suburban rest & relaxation
Exploring the contrast between the noisy city life of Delhi and the silence of Gothenburg suburbs.
500 Days without a Car in Sweden
Discovering Sweden through public transit and foot, contrasting city life in Delhi and Gothenburg.
Eco-conscious movies to reclaim your attention
Movies that tackle the eternal, urgent question of nature vs. nurture while being cinematic and entertaining
Walking in a new topography
Does where I walk affect who I am?
That Chinese place around the corner
On local businesses that keep the hunger alive
Delhi's Smog Exceptionalism
Telling Delhi's haze story
An ode to Rome's tiny hatchbacks
Exploring Rome's micro-mobility charm filled with tiny hatchbacks, a literal moving history.
Strangers need strange moments together
Disconnecting from the digital noise to rekindle my bond with physical world and nonfiction media.
Placemaking as meaning making
"Exploring the magic of mundane city walks and urban interventions in 21st century Göteborg, inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting'."
Living in the world's second most sustainable destination
Göteborg, Sweden's second largest city is famous for it's sustainability practices
When a bike has main character energy
In Ira Sachs' 2023 'Passages', the two-wheeler is an extension of Franz Rogowski's character. It makes for some of the most memorable cycling moments in cinema
Ten climate books for the literary minded
Titles for those of who love our planet as much as we love crystalline, literary prose
The best Hindi philosophical hangout movie? 'Ankhon Dekhi'
The 2014 Rajat Kapoor directorial venture urges you to prod, peer, ponder
winter doesn't exist
the absence of winters, shift in climate cycles - a solastalgia for ways we once knew
end of summer
#scurf227: torn between the extraordinary and the infraordinary
on middlebrow art
#Scurf226: as a small town someone, this was gateway into the world of literature, poetry, music and cinema and i will never grow out of it
