he previous version of this 'about' section was simply a copy-and-paste filmography of actor Patrick Swayze. I was quite fond of it. Soon after its induction, I was told this was a woefully inadequate (not to mention functionally inept) thing to put on one's personal website. There's no information, they said, no means by which hapless passersby should be able - for whatever strange reason - to contact me.

It's a valid point, I suppose. But after putting in the email link and the perfunctory 'home' button, I found there was all this white space I was now expected to fill. So, here we are: just filling space.

I like to write. I like to read. I like journalism and occasionally I like to make music.

I enjoy fiction and politics. I like Indian food and strong coffee.

I am fascinated by the uncanny resemblance of Asian dictators to cast members of the Golden Girls.

The purpose of this blog is to write about pretty much whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it. The purpose of this page, by contrast, is to fill up white space for no other reason than to cast some penumbra of purpose onto this page's existence. Life then, it could be argued, is somewhat like what you see here: when reconciling the vast space at our disposal and its infinite possibilities, we scramble for centrality, for meaning, worth and purpose, and at a loss for answers attach to it a nonsensical succession of ramblings that soon become our canonized consensus of what greater things lie ahead. Really, aren't we all just filling space?

Don't mind me.