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Evolution
If someone had told 25-year-old me that one day I’d be juggling research proposals, science explainers, video scripts, slide decks, blogs, and people… I would’ve thought they were patronising me. After grad school, life greeted me with the soft, warm (actually, hot) hug of a recession. Within the pharma industry, I managed an impressive hat-trick:… Continue reading
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Whither Pride?
As a tech reviewer for a few journals, I’ve started noticing a new trend in manuscript submissions. More and more authors are using AI tools to help write their papers. Personally, I don’t mind that at all. In fact, I think it’s a good thing. Writing a scientific paper is hard enough; if AI can… Continue reading
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I want my folders back
I started working 28 years ago (not counting my teaching assistantship in grad school). From day one, my work has been deadline-driven — and not one-at-a-time deadlines, mind you. Multiple deadlines. Each with its own mini-army of documents, each document with its own quirks and formats, and all of them coming one after another like… Continue reading
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The Good, the Bad, and the Possibly Ugly
There’s a general hysteria that AI will take over writing jobs. Perhaps it will; perhaps it won’t. For now—and likely for the next year or so—the human remains in the loop. As with any transition period, the surge of AI into content creation has been chaotic. Mostly because we don’t quite know how to deal… Continue reading
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My first rengay
Thank you, David. It was such fun writing this. Continue reading
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Rosogolla Rhapsody
Today, my friend Mathanghi gave me rosogolla that she made for Diwali. My love affair with rosogolla began around age seven. A distant northern relative came to visit with a tin of Haldiram’s finest. Eight pristine, syrupy white balls of absolute joy (get your head out of the gutter please). Mom, in all her ceremonial… Continue reading
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Time and tide…
I have a schoolmate I reconnected with a couple of years ago. We weren’t close friends back then, but over time, we began communicating quite a bit. My friend’s mother, too, became a constant presence of warmth and kindness in my life. She would bless me every time we spoke, wish my family on every… Continue reading
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Wings, Golu, and the Awaiting Flu
It’s been quiet here for a while, hasn’t it? That’s because life outside the blog has been really loud — in a mostly good way. The hatchling flew the coop, and oh my, the sheer amount of paperwork involved could make a bureaucrat weep. I ran on pure adrenaline for weeks — sorting documents, managing finances, and trying to… Continue reading
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Fan-girling
I just discovered that my offspring, who is off to the land of our erstwhile colonisers, for grad school, will be living next door to my idol. If that is not ROI, I wonder what is ! Continue reading
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In defence of the apology
I keep seeing posts like this on my social media feeds that say things like, “Stop apologising at work. You don’t need to say sorry.” (Yes, I’m on social media. No, I haven’t abandoned my principles. My role with one of my clients has expanded to include social media content, so here I am, in the… Continue reading
