Essays on life, culture, and the everyday — written between operating theatres and poetry, where a doctor's eye for observation meets a writer's ear for language.

Between a mother's cup and a mother-in-law's kitchen, a physician traces how fiercely people defend their own way of making tea — and how that same leaf crossed deserts, empires, and 2,737 years to end up exactly this varied.

A puppy comes home to Nashik after a year-long wait, and over two strange weeks becomes something else entirely — a small, furry mirror reflecting back exactly what every visitor through the door already believed about devotion, nuisance, and themselves.

A word borrowed from Gen Z unfolds into something larger — tracing Fear Of Missing Out from ring lights and reels to what it is quietly doing to humour, discourse, and the quality of our thinking.