Sharath Komarraju's Blog, page 62

Contest 5: Tell Your ‘Generation Gap’ Story

This contest is OPEN. Last date for entries is Wednesday, 1st October, 2014. The winners will be announced on Friday, 3rd October, 2014. In Contest 5, we will write about the generation gap. For the sake of brevity, and to restrict the scope of this contest a little, we will define ‘generation gap’ as a […]

Contest 4 Results: And the Winner is…

First of all, thank you everyone for participating in Contest 4 and lighting it up. We had 28 valid entries this time. Quite good! The one thing I noticed about this contest was that with almost every comment, I found something from my own past to relate to it. I think it’s just because we […]

Meetup 149: Duality in the Five Elements of Nature

In last week’s session, there were three themes to our writing. (Yeah, just to make it a little complicated.) The Five Elements Love Memoir The first ‘peg’ on which our piece had to stand on was that it had to be closely linked to one of the five elements of nature. For reference, they are: […]

Envy in Art: Circe, Cain, Time and Fame

Yesterday I wrote a post on envy. Today, even though it’s the day for ‘love and longing’, I found myself gravitating back to the same theme. In the video I shared in my last post, Parul Mathur spoke about how fiction is the best place to find envy. I figured art wouldn’t be too far […]

How Do You Combat Envy?

Last week, I came down with a bad case of envy. It hit me without warning. One moment I was perfectly happy scrolling along my Facebook wall, and the next thing I know I am suddenly burning all over in green flames. What happened was that I chanced upon the fan page of a good […]

Building Wealth: Do you Pay Yourself First?

If you’ve spent any amount of time on Personal Finance or money blogs, you will know that ‘Pay Yourself First‘ is the first mantra that they teach you. Of all wealth-building strategies, this is the most-often repeated. But do you know the funny part? From among the ‘money men’ I know personally, very few people […]

Meetup 148: Writing About Values

Last Saturday, Lakshmi Priya hosted a session at Write Club on values. The interesting thing about value-based writing, we found, was that it was often difficult to separate one value from another. It just goes to show that our worldview is often comprised of certain ephemeral set of rules of guidelines (or habits?) that we […]

Photo Post: Monsoon Magic

Don’t we all love the rains? Living in the tropics, we are no strangers to the monsoon. While a very few I know claim that they find rain depressing, most Indians I know love rains. And the magic of the monsoons. Only someone who has faced the scorching Indian summer can truly appreciate the charm of […]

Contest 4: A Tribute to Your Teacher

Note: This contest is OPEN. The final date for entries is Wednesday, 17th September. The winner will be announced on Friday, 19th September. Don’t leave it to the last day. Enter right now!   How do you enter the contest? It doesn’t get simpler. You leave a comment to this post. If you leave two […]

Contest 3 Results: And the Winner Is…

And just like that, Contest 3 is now behind us. Time flies when you’re having fun. We had 12 valid entries for this contest. Yes, just twelve. After the highs of thirty-nine and twenty-eight in the first two contests, this feels a little hollow. After all, there is such a thing as beginner’s luck. But as […]