sourabh's blog

notes, lessons, and observations on books, cinema, and the human condition

  • To be

    To be

    I hear people saying that they don’t get time to do what they really want. They narrate their whole schedules. Their work timings, dinner time, time with family but none…

  • Do it

    You don’t plant it, plot it, or agonize over the thought of doing it. You do it. You don’t wait for the Gods to give you a green flag. You…

  • ah! to be a writer

    I want to write my life. Be a writer. I write more than I publish. Stroking keys in solitude, suffering for the right word, sentence, phrase. Comic, tragic, beautiful—all at…

  • Men like Mice

    How do I wake up every day and rush my way through despite heat, traffic, and roads rife with potholes in a half-asleep state only to reach a place where…

  • Need for Solitude

    In solitude alone do I meet myself. I meet a lot of people and become queasy. Then I come across a mirror and see an aging man — Sorry, I…

  • Nothing like Haruki Murakami

    It’s like Haruki Murakami’s story. I booked the wrong flight and am stranded at the Chennai Airport. I have five hours to fly and nine hours of journey with two…

sourabh arora

And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.

– Michael Scott

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