I have created this space to share my experience with life — not as lessons, but as lived passages.
My journey began in a nondescript village in Bengal, as the eldest son of a refugee family from what was once East Pakistan. Over the years, that journey carried me through uncertainty and struggle, across places and professions, eventually settling in the metropolitan sprawl of Hyderabad. The distance travelled was not merely geographical; it reshaped how I saw society, people, belief, and myself.
Along the way, my views changed course many times. Some certainties dissolved, others quietly took their place. What remained constant was the urge to observe — to understand how personal history, chance, and choice intersect to shape a life.
Friends and relatives have often asked me to relive and record this journey. Jottings of a Life is my humble response to those requests — a personal archive of memories, reflections, travels, and thoughts, written without urgency and without claims, simply as they were experienced.