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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Dec 30, 20236 min read
Blah Blah Blah: My Struggles with Academic Writing
An old paper I wrote for a critical writing course a few years ago. Rediscovered it and found it was still something I could stand and...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Dec 26, 20232 min read
#97 Shrinking spans
You know how sometimes life finds a way to throw at you the exact thing you were looking for and all you can do is catch it? No, actually...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Mar 23, 20235 min read
Why keep trying?
An attempt at gathering hope after reading the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report on Climate Change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Mar 22, 20231 min read
#94 Who I wish had even half your guilt
Those who put pineapple on pizza And those who think that’s not absolutely wrong Economists who think the market works And the...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Mar 22, 20231 min read
#93 A Diary’s Prisoner
When anyone says “deepest, darkest, dash” Your mind immediately dashes to me Locked up I might be today But I might yet one day be free...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 19, 20232 min read
#92 Humanity
humanity is a joke jokes are like stories stories needs a beginning, a middle, and an end ends, as they say, justify the means means,...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 19, 20231 min read
#91 Intertext
I realised recently, That a lot of what I write is referential. Calling to other things in ways even I don't see coming. Sometimes even...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Oct 2, 20222 min read
#89 Wonder
I wonder Why it is so easy to tell other people what to do, But a whole other thing when you have to do it too. You seem so wise when...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Feb 6, 20224 min read
After Life - A Review
Growing up in India, specifically Tamil Nadu, I grew up with a very specific idea of what a television show (or TV serial as it was and...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Feb 4, 20223 min read
What colour do I feel like?
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I don’t know how to feel like a colour. I don’t know what colours feel like. I mean, I know what...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Feb 2, 20223 min read
Inexpensive but invaluable.
Okay, slightly expensive, but still. In the larger scheme of things, it cost me almost nothing, but it remains priceless. Before I tell...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 31, 20222 min read
"Naan apdiye shock aiten!" - I
“Dummm-duh-du-dumm-du-dummm-aaaahhhh-tisshhhhh-pssssssssss-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh” The sudden cacophony—of screams tangled in...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 29, 20223 min read
The times they are a-changing
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 28, 20223 min read
Outrunning the clock - part I
I am 29 now. And so it begins. There’s only so long one can outrun and successfully dodge the societal clock. It catches up to you...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Jan 27, 20225 min read
What I learnt by writing one poem a day for 30 days
George R R Martin said, “Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.” I know exactly what he meant. In April...
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Keshav Suryanarayanan
Apr 29, 20211 min read
Day 30/30 - Daydream
I Thought I Could write a Happy piece to End this challenge with But I don’t think I can Act like everything's great And live in my own...
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