What I Wish We Were Taught About Money
We teach children to calculate interest. We don't teach them what it means to guarantee someone else's debt.
Read entry A PERSONAL JOURNAL
I’m Pavan.
This is where I write.
An Oracle Apps DBA in Bengaluru, a reader, and someone with a lot of questions.
I write about my city, cinema, and the things I’m trying to understand.
The journal 18
Letters, civic life, cinema, and things worth keeping.
What My Certificate Folder Says
Best Student twice inside my own school. A 'B' grade, a 4th prize, a 2nd prize outside it.
Read entryCreativity Can't Be Byhearted, I Wrote
Two answers from my 2007 college notebook, on creativity and on a poem about women.
Read entryA Lecture on Television, and an Invitation One Day Before the Wedding
A warning about television and a letter-writing exercise, from a 2004 notebook.
Read entryEssays I Mostly Learned by Heart
Most of my school essays came from guide books. You can find me in the grammar.
Read entryMy School, 2004
An essay on education, teachers and school management, written when I was in 9th standard.
Read entryA Leave Letter and an Invitation
Two pages from a 2003 school notebook. A request for two days' leave, and a letter to a friend about Dasara.
Read entryThe Only Original Essay in the Class
An essay I wrote on my first day in 9th standard. I was so innocent that I didn't even copy.
Read entryNiccham Posatu: Halegannada Is Savi Siri
Two young monks facing sacrifice, a cockerel made of dough, and Karna and Ravana as tragic heroes. What Hampana’s explanations helped me understand.
Read entryAll I Can Give You Is Explanation
A birthday letter to a friend I should have held on to.
Read entryYou Have to Believe Me. Honest.
The longest letter I ever wrote, and the most honest.
Read entryA Quiet Lake
A few lines from a friend's reply, which I still carry with me.
Read entryWhen My Words Were Welcome
I had never thought that I, or my writing, would be so welcome.
Read entryLife Is a Dream Seen with Open Eyes
Seven months later, writing back to say I hadn't done it yet.
Read entryVrishabhavathi Hole: The River I Want Bengaluru to Recover
I remember muddy water filling the canal when I was about nine. I want Bengaluru to have its river back. These are my hopes, and questions we should take seriously.
Read entryThe Cinema Landscape I Dream of for India
Great screens and small, affordable theatres. My hope for more people in India to enjoy going to the cinema.
Read entryWe Segregated Our Waste. Why Was It Mixed Again?
We pay for collection and separate our waste. Then the collection process undoes that effort.
Read entryWhy Does Our Responsibility End at Our Doorstep?
I want a cleaner Bengaluru and a cleaner India. I want us to care about what happens to our waste after it leaves our hands.
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THE PERSON BEHIND THE PAGES
Hello, I’m Pavan.
I’ve been working as an Oracle Apps DBA for nearly 14 years. I love reading novels; in 2012, I read about 18 in less than five months.
I tend to explain things at length. I want to understand and be understood. These pages hold my observations, letters and hopes for the city I live in.
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