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Remarkably, I hit the one-year mark in Australia earlier this month. It’s been a crazy year – nothing anyone would have imagined – but still flew by. Throughout the year, I kept [...]

“No, really, where are you from?” (In Australia this has become “what is your background?”) The number of times I’ve been asked this question is definitely more than [...]

This past Monday marked the 5-year mark of working in the design industry. While seemingly a small milestone, I thought I would take this time to reflect on some of the professional lessons [...]

Every year, I’ve been trying to find an experience I’ve always wanted to have and cross it off the bucket list. For 2020, it was the Literature Festival, for 2019 it was going to [...]

A friend recently asked me for advice on how to arrange a new apartment. I’ve gotten similar sentiments from different friends over the years and thought I’d organize my thoughts a [...]

I grew up coming to India, almost every year ranging to every couple of years. And each time I came, it seemed consistent. We would stay at my Nani (grandmothers) house and visit a slew of [...]

One silver lining of the quarantine is that you finally get around to doing the things you’ve been wanting to do for a while. For me, it’s writing. This year, I had the chance to go [...]

A sense of home is tied to so many different things. From your cultural or ethnic origin to where you physically live to who you surround yourself with. My understanding of what [...]

I’ve hit the almost 6-month mark of living in Sydney. Insane. Recently, a friend asked me how has living in Sydney has changed me or anything significant I’ve learned. I thought I [...]