Enric S Neelamkavil

Everyone was talking about the Coldplay concert in Ahmedabad. Coldplay coming back to India after such a long time had completely taken over social media. Reels, Instagram stories, ticket screenshots, people posting countdowns and “see you in Ahmedabad” everywhere. And yes, I was very much living in that social media era. I got FOMO. Us at Coldplay Ahmedabad Just a week before the event, with absolutely no proper plan, I somehow managed to grab the tickets nearby from Cochin. Once I got them, there was n...

Long back in 2021, on my birthday, a girl who was my junior in school sent me a message on Instagram. Happy Birthday dear Stay blessed be happy May all your wishes come true I didn’t think much. Birthdays bring a flood of messages anyway. I replied with a simple copy-pasted “Thank you” and a couple of emojis. She replied with a 😊. That was it. Exactly one year later, on my 2022 birthday, she texted again. Out of no context, with a Gift text effect. That birthday text Wishing you a blessed year and a won...

Got a Delulu in real life! Some people don’t enter your life loudly. They just appear, quietly, like they were always meant to exist somewhere in your timeline. And before you realize it, they’ve become part of your ordinary days. She did. It started with a simple “hey” on Bumble. Nothing clever. Nothing that should have mattered more than the others. But it did. We moved to Instagram the same day, and the conversation unfolded naturally, without effort. There was no awkwardness, no pauses filled with un...