Manali Desai

A preserver of my thoughts and a nurturer of self-happiness, I am Manali, a believer in all's well that ends well. I cherish the act of writing and the process of thinking. Loner to some and warm to others, I swing between moods based on my hunger pangs. Traveler, reader,music lover and foodie are some adjectives which can be used to describe me.

Stories by Manali Desai
The first time I said no
Fiction

The first time I said “no”

We met at a bar, it was never happily after
Fiction

We met at a bar. It was never happily ever...

Missing the most valuable
Fiction

What all you value sometimes misses the most valuable

Your love or hate for technology is taking on your relationship
Living

Your love or hate for technology is taking on your...

The clash of happiness
Living

The Clash of Happiness

The burden of the unnecessary
Living

The burden of the unnecessary

A man who was closeminded
Fiction

A man who turned out to be close-minded

What you do is not what you are
Think

What you do is not necessarily what you are

Everyday distractions that divert us every day
Productivity

Everyday distractions that divert us every day

Were we getting wrong about happiness
Think

There’s a lot more to happiness

I'm not attracted to you unless you like me
Fiction

I dare say I’m not attracted to you at all...

Living, on the edge
Life

Living, on the Edge

Anxious mind remains a mystery to many
Life

Getting through an Anxious Mind

With love, from myself
Fiction

With Love, from Myself, but was there the Happiness I...

With or Without You
Fiction

With or Without You

That keeps us going
Life

That keeps us going

Silhouette
Life

Why do we look for flaws in others?

And those everyday distractions sidetrack us every day
Productivity

And those everyday distractions sidetrack us from creativity and productivity...

The worth of less is more
Productivity

The Worth of ‘Less is More’

What you do is not always what you are
Life

What You Are is not always defined by What You...

Not so loneliness
Life

With time I’ve observed, staying lonely makes you appear important

How relationships these days get wasted
Life

How relationships, these days, get wasted

Exploring the routes to open-mindedness
Living

Exploring the routes to open-mindedness

The difficult words that make you deeply satisfied
Life

Most of us are not really very open to Goodness

Where the life's purpose meets the ends
Life

Where the life’s purpose meets the ends, and will it...

The Creativity has an Age
Life

The Creativity has an Age

The race to instant gratification and FOMO
Life

The race to instant gratification and fear of missing out

Anxiety and the rest follows
Life

Anxiety and the rest follows

What all we are getting wrong about happiness
Life

We all are getting wrong about happiness

Forever Never
Fiction

Forever Never

The real million dollar question
Living

The Real Million Dollar Question

My End of the Story
Fiction

My End of the Story

The blurring lines around the work
Living

The blurring lines swinging around freelance and work-from-home

A Pinch Of Freedom
Fiction

A Pinch Of Freedom

The One Hour Journey
Fiction

The One Hour Journey

A Memory or Reality
Fiction

A Memory Or Reality

A future without me
Fiction

A Future Without Me

Our Latest Stories
Modern Love and the Cities
Reel and Real

Modern Cities: Love

Pan-India films and cinema
Reel and Real

Can pan-India films save India’s cinemas?

Cinema is having a crisis
Reel and Real

Cinema is having an existential crisis

Nuance and the Indian Sports Drama
Reel and Real

The shades of the Indian sports drama

Surviving the Crooked City
Reel and Real

Surviving the Crooked City

Dhamaka and the Hustle Culture
Reel and Real

The Unravelling of Hustle Culture