Shravan’s Blog
I’ve blogged since high school (back when blogging was a thing). My blog is where you can hear my most authentic voice. I blog about being a Third Culture Kid™, my Indian identity (crises), bad dates, and more. When I feel a build-up of emotion and it spills over, I spill my heart onto the internet. There’s no filter. Proceed at your own risk.
The Visa
Every Indian person in the US probably has a visa story. This is mine.
Another Window
People say the world is getting smaller. I think we are just getting more used to how big it is.
The Book of Michael
Of all the people on this Godforsaken flight, it was him that offered to swap seats without thinking twice.
Storyteller
My Dadima was a storyteller. She wanted nothing more than an audience and I humoured her.
The America Jon Stewart Forgot
What I love about my class – and particularly the Americans who anchor it – is their will to go out into the world and improve things.
Kit’s Dubstep Playlist
Good dubstep takes your deepest thoughts and amplifies them and gives clarity to your emotions.
Finding Your Gift
Let me tell you about a few instances when I’ve found myself insanely jealous of people with God-given talent.
The Day I Was Awesome
It was Year 8 and for one day, in my gigantic, scary high school in Hong Kong, I was THE man.
Why I Love Football
Words cannot do justice how it feels to walk out into a floodlit stadium. There is just no sight like it.
In Another Life
In another life, my Nani would have been a CEO of a company, I just know it.
Remembering Mhavu
In the midst of countless people careening back and forth through the living room, she kept us all balanced.
Serene Homes of Northern Europe
If you want to experience a city, you have to walk its streets. If you want to understand its people, you need to stay in their homes.
Treading on Toes
Do you release something into the public domain that could benefit many, at the risk of alienating a few?
Shivaji Park Messi
She had done it! She threw her arms in the air and screamed and jumped with joy. It was the greatest 5 seconds of my life.
In Praise of Single Mums
In spite of being mother, friend and breadwinner to her two teenage children, she took me into her home.
Something I wrote when I was 10
I found a school project I wrote when I was 10, about how we used to trade food in our school canteen
Job Rejections and What I Learnt from Them
She said, damningly, “this is something you should know”. And when she told me the answer, I realized I did know it.
Vignettes
Living alone in Bombay isn’t easy. There are days when it seems everything is against you.
Budget Day Virgin
Budget day 2013 was my first as a business journalist and I loved it.
"Guns Don't Kill People"
What I have noticed living in India is that the onus is never on the mob not to act; instead it is always on a party for ‘inciting’ something.