Hi there, lovely personage! It’s your friendly neighbourhood petrolhead/biker. Welcome to my hygge pied-à-terre. I’m hight Nikhil. I like faffing around, like an everyman, during my leisure time and am not afraid to plough my own furrow in life. I like reading across assorted disciplines in an impossible bid to understand each and every mechanism of the universe. I delectate in poems and ghazals, too. 

It’s a pleasure to meet you. You are more than welcome to leave a message asking after me or if you just want to converse with me about a drama that we’ve watched. Have a nice day ahead! :)

Please be a darling and don’t take my ratings too seriously, as I tend to hum and haw whenever it’s time to rate a show. My rating mechanism is heavily influenced by recency effect. So if I rate a show immediately after watching it, chances are I’ll rate it higher than I would if I rated it later. Hence, keep a pinch of salt close to you while strolling through my list.

I have a serious penchant for dramas that have no love triangles, have affectionate and healthy relationship between main leads, warm yet serious main leads, and if main leads get together in the first half of the drama and stay like that sans any stupid, illogical breakup predicated on banal misunderstandings, it would be the cherry on top.

My all-time favourite drama is:- Amidst a Snowstorm of Love.

Status:- Rejoicing in my darling season, winter, with a cup of hot tea in my hand. 

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Carpe diem, my friend! You’ve got this! 

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.” (Joseph Addison)

अजब तेरी है ऐ महबूब सूरत

नज़र से गिर गए सब ख़ूबसूरत

                                                           — हैदर अली आतिश

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” (Oscar Wilde)

ये मो’जिज़ा हमारे ही तर्ज़-ए-बयाँ का था

उसने वो सुन लिया था जो हमने कहा न था

                                                                                   — अख़्तर शाहजहाँपुरी

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” (William Shakespeare)

तुम तकल्लुफ़ को भी इख़्लास समझते हो 'फ़राज़'

दोस्त होता नहीं हर हाथ मिलाने वाला

                                                                            — अहमद फ़राज़

“The gathered rose and the stolen heart can charm but for a day.” (Emma Catherine Embury)

रेख़्ते के तुम्हीं उस्ताद नहीं हो 'ग़ालिब'

कहते हैं अगले ज़माने में कोई 'मीर' भी था

                                                                                   — मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”  (George Bernard Shaw)

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” (George Eliot)

अगर फ़िरदौस बर-रू-ए-ज़मीं अस्त

हमीं अस्त ओ हमीं अस्त ओ हमीं अस्त