Abhirami Pillai

Growing up, you get used to the noise. Feedback, criticism, advice you never asked for—it comes from everywhere, but especially from the people closest to you. I used to take all of it literally. Every comment, every suggestion, I’d stop and ask, “Why do you say that?” Not defensively—I genuinely wanted to understand. But all — read more

A few nights ago, I realised that in the next few months, it will be 10 years since I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science. That calls for some retrospection. Like so many of us when we’re young and think we have it all figured out, I was convinced that by 25-27 I’d be settled—married, — read more