A Thinking Man

Hello there, I’m Sai Korivi.

I’m an Artist from Hyderabad, India. I write and photograph. This online space is where I share my pithy observations on life and pictures of the world I see through my lens.

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My Photography

Photography is meditation to me. Camera in hand makes me hyper aware of my surroundings. Head over to my photography page to take a look at the world I see through my lens.
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My Writing

I’m concerned about existential nature of life. Questions about why we are here? What’s the point of existence? Is Life worth living? Questions without answers, bother me. I wrestle with these in my articles. Maybe you’d be interested to read these musings

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  • Personal Space

    When you grow up in a household with a physically abusive dad and emotionally unavailable mother; in an environment where you don’t know if you’d get enough to eat that week; where you don’t know when you are going to get the cane and for what; where you don’t know if you’ll still be staying…

    September 26, 2022
  • Looking back from 40

    Next month I celebrate my 40th birthday. A number I approach with mixed emotions. Is it mid-life crisis? I don’t know. But, 40 is a number that stops you on your path because you realize that half of your life is over and you are ‘just’ where you are, you are ‘just’ who you are.…

    March 26, 2022
  • Life’s Worth – from Nature or Meeting Room?

    At work, our worth is determined based on what we bring to the table. But, after spending most of our waking hours at work, we think our worth outside work also, depends on what we bring to the table. We think our worth will be based on how great a relationship we build, on what…

    December 26, 2021
  • Ambling

    I love ambling. One of my favourite past times as a child was to walk to the nearest nursery. Taking roads that many don’t, avoiding main roads for bylanes was what I loved. It was just thinking on legs. Looking at plants that jutted through rocks on the pavement and wild shrubs that grew on…

    December 17, 2021
  • Philosophical Insights to dealing with Mental Issues

    I’ve had my share of mental health struggles, just like anyone else. While medication helps, the far more effective way, to manage mental health issues, I’ve realized is by taking a look at our belief systems on which we’ve constructed our life. Questioning our belief systems and reconstructing that foundation on which our approach to…

    October 10, 2021
  • What are we running for?

    If jobs cannot fulfill our need for meaning, if money doesn’t buy us fulfillment, if more doesn’t make us happy, what do we need do?

    September 5, 2021

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“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

Rainer Maria Rilke