Public Living Room is an idea I’m building slowly - warm spaces open for like minded curious strangers.

Yesterday I walked through a home in CV Raman Nagar I’d been thinking about since I first saw it. It has a well. Actually two. I had never seen a home in a city with wells :D It does not have a municipal water connection or sewage connection either . And fantastically designed with a garden and books everywhere you look.

Robert and Tina built something genuinely beautiful here - opening their space to people to just come in, sit with a book and have conversations. They also do walk-throughs. You can book the next one here: https://www.urbsindis.com/event-details/walkthrough-29?mc_id=publiclivingroom

May be, it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be

I wonder if there’s a secondhand market …

Everyone is fundraising in Bangalore. Scales differ.

This is so totally me.

Screaming baby is a feature, not a bug

The best feature of a baby is that it screams for whatever it needs, whenever it needs something.

Because you cannot stop that screaming without fulfilling that underlying requirement.

For passion projects though - there is no such alarm. If it needs something, to grow into something beautiful, it cannot scream. And you ignore it all too easily. Till it dies of neglect.

From behind the windows of an AC car passing through lush vegetation and forests looking at the villages beyond, it makes you imagine people with hard work yet satisfying lives. And you kind of romanticize that life.

But it’s only when you step out of the car, you realize that it’s not so pleasant, even with the lush vegetation. The weather is still that hot and muggy. The breeze suddenly stopped, because you did.

And it’s only when you live among those people, you realize that there is a stifling sense of being. And not contentment.

[context: looking out of window from Vande Bharat - somewhere in Bihar]