As a new entrant to the hiking influencer scene, I suppose I can get away with sharing semi-outrageous thoughts in public. Not everywhere, of course - one has one’s reputation to think of - but a little confessional to one’s Substack community never did any harm. So I thought I’d…
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So my mental health took a nosedive and I had to put myself through a whole course of Just William books and cribbing to my mom, but woohoo! I'm back…
Ever since 2018, I’ve been extra about my skin. That was the year I stepped into a Sephora and learned that there existed something called ‘toner’. The…
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I love those away emails that get auto-sent when someone’s not at work. The setting of boundaries, the deliberate disconnect from messages that may or…
…it really oughtn’t to matter. At least, that’s what I tell myself whenever I survey my photos post a hike and observe - ruefully - how a dull outfit or…
NOTE: This post came out 49 hours and 30 minutes later than I would have liked, and I apologise. Turns out that attending a writer’s conference is not…
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As of today, it's been two months and eleven days since I moved to the Bay Area from India, and two months and nine days since I completed my first hike…

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