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The Rain Remembers What We Forget

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It started around four in the afternoon, the way it always does here, without warning and without apology. One minute the light was that flat white it gets before a Bangalore storm, and the next the whole street had gone silver. I was standing at the window with a cup of tea that had already gone cold, watching the rain turn the road into something older than the road. There is a particular sound that rain makes on this city. Not the drumming you hear in the plains, not the roar of the coast. It is softer, broken up by all the trees we still somehow have left. The rain hits a rain tree first, then a gulmohar, then finally the ground, and by the time it reaches you it has been filtered through three different kinds of leaf. It arrives sounding almost polite. Below my window, the usual choreography began. The tender coconut vendor pulled a blue tarpaulin over his cart in one practiced motion, a move he must have made ten thousand times. A woman coming back from the market lifted her bag ...
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The Weekend Reset

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5 Low-Effort Ways to Recharge Before Monday We have  all been there: Sunday evening rolls around, and instead of feeling restored, you are left wondering where the last 48 hours went. Between running errands, catching up on chores, or endlessly scrolling, weekends can easily feel as exhausting as the workweek. A true weekend reset does not  require a lavish spa trip or a packed schedule of perfect activities. Its about intentional, small moments that quiet your mind and clear your space. Here are five simple, low-effort ways to slow down and truly recharge this weekend: 1. Create a "Digital-Free" Morning Block Before you reach for your phone to check emails or social media, give yourself at least one screen-free hour after waking up. Sip your morning coffee or tea without distractions, read a chapter of a book, or just sit by a window. Starting your morning without incoming digital noise sets a calm tone for the rest of the day. 2. Practice a 15-Minute Environment Rese...
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Why Do We Remember Some Conversations for Years?

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Most conversations disappear almost as soon as they end. We talk to someone in the morning and cannot remember the exact conversation by evening. We exchange hundreds of messages during a week, yet only a handful remain in our memory. And then there are those strange conversations we remember for decades. Sometimes it is something profound that someone told us. Sometimes it is a sentence that changed the way we looked at a problem. And sometimes it is something completely ordinary. A conversation at a railway station. A few words exchanged with a stranger. Something a teacher said in college. A remark made by a colleague many years ago. We may forget the person’s clothes, the surroundings and even the circumstances. But somehow, we remember the words. Memory Does Not Keep Everything The human brain is not designed to preserve every experience with equal importance. If it did, our memories would become an enormous and unusable archive. Instead, our brains constantly sele...
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The Wednesday That Doesn’t Rush

Bangalore on a September Wednesday has a particular quiet. The monsoon has loosened its grip. The traffic is still there, of course it is, but the light is softer. Offices have already decided what this week will be. The weekend is close enough to feel, not close enough to steal the afternoon. I used to treat midweek as something to get through. Court dates, client calls, the next filing, the next book listing, the next post. A life measured in what still needed doing by Friday. That is a useful way to live when you are building. It is a poor way to live when you have already built enough to know what the building cost. At sixty, the most valuable thing I have learned is not another productivity trick. It is this: some days are not for finishing. They are for noticing. This morning I sat with tea longer than the kettle required. No phone for the first twenty minutes. The same Yoga Nidra I have used for more than a decade—not as a performance of wellness, but as a way to let the ne...
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