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Let me be unhappy, damn it

Ever since Anne said, “I want to be great, or nothing”, I haven’t been the same.

Nov 11, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Anatomy of Moving (2/2)

I hate everyone, I think, at thirteen. I love life, I think, at fourteen. I need to get out of here, I think at fifteen.

Mar 10 • Deepthy Ajith K

The Things We Leave (1/2)

There is something inherently unsettling about knowing that this departure is the moment when the room I grew up in begins to empty out.

Feb 23 • Deepthy Ajith K

The sterility of my betrayal is blinding.

Dec 21, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

What a pity! What a pity!

I’d say it’s a spectrum, but it’s not – I’m not here, or I’m there.

Dec 7, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Recent posts

When Tribute Becomes Art

When the past speaks to the present, and the present answers, an act of tribute becomes art in and of itself.

Aug 31, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

All a Bit Too Loud

Beep beep beep beep beep beep

Aug 17, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

The Shape of Waiting

on the infinite patience of humans

Jul 27, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Goodbyes and Old Beginnings

where memory begins again

Jul 7, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

The screwdriver that saved my life and then screwed me

I was Ahab, it was the whale, and our battlefield was a borrowed screwdriver set.

Jun 29, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

All the Things We Inherit

It’s funny, the things I seem to be finding.

Jun 22, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

On the architecture of alienation

and renting a room inside it

Jun 7, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Mountains and First Days

It always rains on the first day.

May 22, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

We're all bound to our own madness.

We wear our devotion like armour, knowing full well it rusts.

May 11, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

The Heat Exchanger

fingerprints, history and stories

May 5, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Maybe, Almost, Always

naïve, and farther from reality

Apr 26, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

Rain and Remnants

A study in influence

Mar 16, 2025 • Deepthy Ajith K

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