Because of what it means today in culture, the word, ‘Amateur’ can seem like a pejorative term to a lot of us, especially when we are starting out – in any creative endeavour.  When someone calls something amateurish, they are generally referring to the quality of that particular work-  lacking technical finesse and so forth. […]

A photograph by Brooklyn based photographer, Billy Dinh. At the outset, let me say it- I am a lousy traveller. Sure, everyone likes the odd break from routine and change of scenery- I do too, especially with good company. But I think I am a little thrown off by this idea of backpacking and nomadic […]

While at school, we hardly ever understand what it is to learn something or what learning really is. As we all know, education is different from learning. Education is getting a degree while learning is not. But when I got the difference, I just wanted to jump forward and skip all the boring parts- the […]

During my second year, I flunked class and the penalty was to repeat the whole semester. I was mentally prepared for it but to my surprise, I was somehow pardoned and assigned to spend the summer in the library instead, assisting and arranging books. I believe this was my foray into reading because that was […]