By the time summer arrived, Meera and I had stopped calling ourselves “new” to Delhi. We knew which metro gate to use without checking Maps. We had strong opinions about where to find the…
A month after moving to Delhi, our rented flat finally looked less like a warehouse and more like a home. The cardboard boxes had disappeared. The plants by the window were somehow still alive. The k…
By the time December arrived, Delhi had already taught us a few life lessons. Always carry cash for the neighbourhood momo stall. Never underestimate Delhi traffic. And if someone says, “ItR…
The auto driver looked at us through the rear-view mirror and smiled. “First time in Delhi?” Meera looked at me before answering. “Is it that obvious?” He chuckled. “Onl…
The spare room was where things went to be forgotten. Old suitcases. A broken fan. A box of school certificates nobody had opened in a decade. It smelled faintly of dust and disappointment. It was al…
The morning I quit, my hands shook so badly I typed the resignation email three times before I got it right. No new job. No savings worth mentioning. Just a two-year-old laptop and a feeling that if …
One year. That’s how long it took to go from typing my resignation with shaking hands to watching three people work on projects I’d once have done alone at 2 am. If you’d told me, o…
Picture this. Nine at night. My very first proper client, a small skincare brand, had agreed to a video call to decide whether they’d hire me. A real one. The kind that pays actual money and te…
There’s a fear only freelancers know. It arrives at 11 pm, wearing the face of a progress bar stuck at 60% for eleven minutes. The final video, the big one, three days of my life needed to reac…
AI is Changing the Way We Use the Internet Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer limited to tech professionals. Today, students use it for assignments, working professionals rely on it for emails…
