Enric S Neelamkavil

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...

I saw the headline casually. “Get an Apple Watch for free.” I laughed. HDFC Ergo X Zopper X Apple Watch I had just bought my first iPhone barely a month earlier. Not because I “wanted an iPhone,” but because if I was buying one, I wanted the best — bigger battery, larger screen, Pro lenses. That’s how I justify expensive things to myself: either do it properly or don’t do it at all. An Apple Watch never fit into that logic. ₹50,000 for a watch? No chance. So when I heard about India Gets Moving, a progr...