The Gravity of Yearning

Hey Rockstars,  The following post is about Mohit Suri’s 2025 film Saiyaara. If you’ve seen it, or any of his other films (like Aashiqui 2, oof.), you already know the emotional gravity his stories can carry. This post gets into some of the movie’s most important scenes, so: spoilers ahead! For those of you who…

Two BFFs cosplaying as morning people

Hey Rockstars,  I’m writing this on Thursday night, and I really had to laugh at the series of events over the last 24 hours. Last night, I found out that my apartment building was power-washing the garage today, which meant everyone had to move their cars by 7 a.m. I cannot adequately express how little…

Take what resonates (sometimes it just isn’t for you)

Hey rockstars, I recently read Rose Hirst’s essay for Roe Magazine, Not Everything Is About You. Please Learn to Scroll, about the strange habit we seem to have developed of encountering something online that does not perfectly fit our preferences and immediately treating that as a problem. The article talks about “what-about-me-ism”: the impulse to…

A Little More of the World

Hey rockstars, Wow, I’ve been blogging so much. Should I officially add “content creator” to my resume and LinkedIn? Maybe just certified yapper. I stand by the fact that American music was at its peak in 2010, and Bollywood music was at a high (maybe not a peak) in 2010-2016 (aka when I was in…

Apparently, I’m Wasting My Youth

Hey Rockstars, I hope you all are having a great day. I managed to question my entire existence and then land in the same spot 24 hours later. Last night, it started with a question: had I become boring? This was not prompted by anything especially dramatic. It was actually prompted by a song (which…

With love, we can flourish

Hey rockstars, I’ve been writing a lot this week. Maybe it’s because it’s almost fall and I’m feeling particularly inspired. Today, I spent almost an hour sitting in my friend Kaitlin’s office talking about books. Kaitlin and I both work at the same firm, and I don’t think anyone has ever accused either of us…