Dash Sisters

Summer afternoons at our boarding school were blistering—dry heat and sharp sun, in a rain-shadow pocket of south-eastern India. We’d gobble down lunch under the loud whirring of dining hall fans then run back to our dormitories to observe “silent time”. It was an hour-long break—sometimes two during the really unforgiving times of the year—when everyone read, napped or wrote in perfect silence. I...

Valentine’s Day is here. Florists are sprinting. Heart-shaped things multiply overnight. Someone is panic-buying a crimson bouquet while texting “on my way” with the confidence of a liar. There’s a version of love we learn from movies. It’s cinematic — a thousand violins, a storm outside the window, someone sprinting through an airport. But beneath all the noise, it’s something so sweet, so simple...

This episode comes to you from the great outdoors - super long distance, but somehow more alive. I’m recording from Ahmedabad, Gauri’s in Madikeri, and we’re both a little oxygen-drunk in the best way. This week’s drop is arriving on Friday instead of our usual Wednesday. We’ve been moving in a different rhythm as we play catch-up with our lives. And somehow, it’s also my birthday. I turn thirty t...

This week’s episode is a little different — we didn’t invite a guest into the room. We invited stories. The ones we grew up inside of. The ones that made us cry as children and still make our throats tighten as adults. The ones that subconsciously built our inner architecture. The ones that found a way quietly inside us finding space inside our lives and started shaping how we understand devotion,...

Some friendships hold their shape across time: you open the old pages and recognize the handwriting is unmistakably of your very own: refined by years, warmed by living, honest at the edges. That’s what it felt like to have Sree with us — sister of our hearts. Sree has always been a force in our orbit — lyrical and incisive, steady and wise, gifted in a way that feels almost unfair. The fastest ru...

This week, we’re joined by Bhuvaneshwari (Bhuvana) — ceramic artist, fellow chaos enthusiast, and Gauri’s “sister from a different mister” — calling in from her pottery studio in Madikeri (Coorg / Kodagu). Also present: a cat who had just eaten, got the zoomies, and decided to participate in the recording like a tiny furry producer with opinions. And honestly? That’s the energy of this episode: re...

In our head, he’s still five years old running around barefoot, clutching a golden gadha , giggling with his friends. In reality he’s 22, living and earning for himself on the other side of the world, talking about self-confidence, community, and choosing peace with clarity. This episode, titled Eat Watermelon, Read a Book is with Agasthya — athlete, barista, community-builder, watermelon enthusia...

There’s a very specific mood at the end of the year. That end-of-year hush descends upon us all, no matter the part of the world you live in. In Tokyo, trains get a little quieter, there’s just one bus per hour, inboxes are a little slower, the air a little more ceremonial. Bengaluru slows down too—its infamous traffic is more bearable, everyone’s left town for day-long getaways, hoping to start t...