Why we lose ourselves in WiFi, and find ourselves in the mountains. We, the millennials and Gen Zs of the metro cities, scrolling through reels on mental health while gulping cold coffee and juggling multiple internet tabs. Somewhere between grocery home deliveries and soft boards that look straight out of a murder mystery, we’ve turned life into a never-ending to-do list. Meanwhile, India’s indigenous communities, often dismissed as “backward,” are out there living lives of balance, groundedness and joy that most of us only dream about during spa sessions that we schedule on Urban Company. This isn’t about romanticising rural poverty or denying progress. This is about acknowledging the gaps…
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Why You Should Stop Asking AI to Disagree With You.
How our obsession with AI tools have unplugged a deeper issue: mental laziness. Lately, I’ve seen a lot of people say that ChatGPT should disagree with you more — that it should challenge your opinions. There’s been a noticeable shift in how people want to use AI tools today. The hype used to be all about how helpful these tools could be. But now? People are asking for something more: AI that disagrees with them. AI that doesn’t affirm their beliefs. AI that calls out their logic, and doesn’t automatically praise or validate their inputs. And I get where that’s coming from. But here’s the thing: did we pause to consider whether we…
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Don’t Scroll, Please Stay [Poetry – Note]
In this world wired to keep us connected, We’ve never felt more forgotten. Explore pages, reels, and feeds, Swiping right across stories, Leaving heart reactions in red, But so much still left unsaid. Once, eye contact used to mean something, Now, we look, we scroll, But we rarely see. We exist in grids, In captions, Ending conversations with laughing emojis, Even when nothing’s really funny. We’re in each other’s network, But not in each other’s lives. Our touch now replaced by a tap, Our eyes awaiting a ping, Some part of us still hoping, That someone will stop, will stay, will look. Will see more than an aesthetic feed. Walking…