It’s Been a While. I’m Back.
It’s been a while—but I’m back.
Five years, to be precise.
The drive to write was always there. What wasn’t there were readers. And that, as it turns out, is not particularly motivating. This blog turned out to be a well-kept secret. Life, meanwhile, went on doing what it does best —happening. The good, the bad, and the ugly all showed up, often unannounced.
The last time I wrote here was in 2020. That post was about my first fiction novel, Our Imperfect Story. It was a book about college life in medical and engineering colleges, stitched together from the lives of three of my friends and myself. Some parts were real, some imagined—but all of it was close to the heart.
It was reasonably well received. By forty people. Which means the book now enjoys the rare distinction of being a well-kept secret.
Just when I was contemplating poor readership and thinking life couldn’t throw anything bigger at us, the pandemic arrived—politely disproving that theory. The less said about it, the better. Perhaps I’ll write about it someday. Still, it’s mildly unsettling to realise that the pandemic hit us six years ago. Time, it seems, has no sense of drama. It just flies.
In these years, I changed my workplace and moved to a new teaching hospital. I now work as a Professor in the Department of Surgery. Somewhere along the way, I got involved in simulation-based teaching, learned BLS and ACLS, and—through a chain of events I still don’t fully understand—ended up as an AHA-certified provider for both.
I also self-published my second fiction novel, Etched in the Mountains, which continues the proud tradition of my work being another well-kept secret. I then worked as an educator with DR POLARIS, India’s first MBBS teaching app. I recorded around 100 surgery videos—each about 50 minutes long—because apparently, I enjoy talking to a camera more than most people. I eventually became the medical director of the app, made reels, strategized content, and tried to survive in the highly competitive medical coaching space.
The app did moderately well.
Yes, you guessed it—yet another well-kept secret.
And now, new beginnings.
With 2026, I’ve decided to focus on things I kept postponing in the name of being “busy.” I’ve deactivated Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for the foreseeable future. I’m reading more. Trying to write my third book. Working on my NEET PG coaching book. And, finally, reviving this blog.
After all, life seems to be built on well-kept secrets.
I might as well start writing them down again.
