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About 15 years ago, a time when my class teacher had sandwiched “Aman is very timid” in her overall assessment of me on my year report card, I didn’t…
Aman Dalmia

January 2023

Last night, I was walking with one of my closest friends along the swimming pool in the society where I live. One of the many walks that we regularly…
Aman Dalmia
Have you heard about the Marshmallow experiment? If you haven’t, let me briefly explain it to you. A bunch of scientists gathered a group of kids. Each…
Aman Dalmia

September 2022

March 22, 2019, Delhi. You were really looking forward to that day. After all, you were going to have a reunion with some of your favourite college…
Aman Dalmia

August 2022

The year is 2011, the one in which India won the Cricket World Cup after 28 years. You’re in Kolkata, studying in your 9th grade. Your life revolved…
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June 2022

What is home? For some people, it is a person. For some others, it is a place. And then there are those who are still trying to find what home means to…
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May 2022

I am starting to become suspicious of the summers. Not afraid. Just suspicious. Around the same time last year, I took a 2-month break from work as I…
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April 2022

Nowadays, it only takes one to have an internet connection to be told how fucked up we are. It seems everything around us is falling apart. For a large…
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March 2022

Do you also have this sulking feeling that time is running out? I’m at my hometown in Kolkata right now and in the past few days, I’ve been visiting a…
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February 2022

Over the years, I have been present in a lot of situations where people are meeting each other for the first time. These situations often unfold with…
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January 2022

My journey into feeling too overwhelmed with the climate crisis, overtly pessimistic about life in general to finding hope again through a loving…
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December 2021

It’s that time of the year - the holidays. It is the time when you are supposed to take a break from your daily life, probably go for a mini-trip to the…
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