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Scratch That #2: How it started?

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One of the many hats that I don is that of an ecologist. That probably means many different things but to put it simply, nature makes me curious and the questions that it poses drive me. Yup, that's me! You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. It all started when... Oh wait, this isn't Instagram.  Honestly, I do not know how it all started. I was never an outdoorsy kid. It was only during my undergrad that I first started being outdoors only to end up getting locked back indoors thanks to a global pandemic. It's cruel how you realise the value of something only when you can no longer have it. The pandemic meant classes were online and professors had become tiny boxes on screens. Learning had come to a halt or so you might think. When you are no longer limited by syllabi and unreasonable expectations of attendance, you get to truly chase your curiosities. Humans are wired to pursue knowledge. It's an evolutionary advantage. It's how we know whi...
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The Sound of Silence: My journey with Ménière's Disease

I want to start by acknowledging that I am aware that there are bigger problems in the world and my problems are nothing in comparison. But I have been trivialising this for far too long and I don't want to do that anymore because it's not nothing. I was 15 when I started having unexplained migraines [often accompanied by tinnitus (back then, I didn't know it was called that) and vertigo]. I tried all sorts of home remedies, nothing seemed to work. A doctor in Chennai (a legit doctor in a reputed hospital) attributed my pain to "kids these days not being able to handle minor inconveniences" and told me i should do some journaling :/  My parents took me to visit an ENT specialist in Vijayawada who diagnosed me with mild hearing loss. We used to live in Chennai back then and were visiting relatives in Vijayawada. This is important, we'll come back to this in the next paragraph. Then we went to see a neurosurgeon (don't ask why). He looked at the ENT's di...
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Identity Crisis

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a.k.a ABOUT ME I hate being clicked (surprise, surprise)
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Scratch That #1

If I were to describe my personality in one word, it is "INTROVERT" without having to think twice. That being said, I have been a storyteller since as long as I can remember. Probably since the day I told my first lie ;) Jokes aside, I have played around with multiple forms of storytelling. Poetry, theatre, fiction writing, photography and the list goes on. Nothing stuck though. The number of unfinished projects just keeps piling on. After hundreds of notebooks and thousands of notes on multiple notes apps that will probably never see the light of day, here I am writing this blog. It's probably going to be yet another unfinished project and I have made my peace with that. While I have some cool (and some lame) blog ideas in my head, I am starting off with this series called "Scratch That" to document incomplete thoughts. The idea isn't to publish great pieces of work but to embrace the beauty of the process and acknowledge the value of ordinary SCRIBBLES.
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