Writer. Psychiatrist. Filmmaker. Screenwriter of ‘Kuruthi’ and 'The Summer of Miracles.'
Joined September 2010
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Anish Pallyal retweeted
Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy
"Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me"
"You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over"
"And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost"
"Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it"
"You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future"
"And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means"
"And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"
Anish Pallyal retweeted
The primary duty of literature is to tell the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed.
—Stephen King—
It’s impossible to write a dramatic plot twist when your psychiatrist brain keeps stepping in to offer the antagonist a healthy coping mechanism and a referral to therapy.
“Constantly bound by craving and fear to a future full of uncertainties, we strip each present moment of its calm, its intrinsic import, which we are unable to enjoy. And so the future destroys the present.”—Hannah Arendt
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Anish Pallyal retweeted
The Lonely Genius: Terry A. Davis 👨💻🙏
Terry A. Davis was a brilliant but troubled programmer from the United States. He studied computer engineering and once worked with top technology companies. But in his 20s, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness that made him hear voices and have strong religious visions. 🌩️
Instead of giving up, Terry poured his life into creating something extraordinary — TempleOS, a full operating system he built alone. He wrote every part of it: the kernel, compiler, and even its graphics. He believed God was guiding him, and TempleOS was meant to be the "third temple" described in the Bible. 📖💻
The system was unusual — it ran at 640x480 resolution with 16 colors and had a programming language Terry invented called “HolyC.” While many saw it as strange, others admired the sheer genius and dedication it took to build such a project single-handedly.
Sadly, Terry struggled with homelessness, isolation, and his illness until his passing in 2018. 🌙 His life is remembered as both heartbreaking and inspiring — a reminder of the thin line between brilliance and pain, and how even in struggle, creativity can shine. ✨
“If you’re not enough before the gold medal, you won’t be enough with it.”— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
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Anish Pallyal retweeted
Use Elan Lee's approach to make your next brainstorming session fun.
cc: @elanlee
Anish Pallyal retweeted
There’s undoubtedly immense difficulty in curating a list of 100 best anything, but if your project omits major film industries, artistic movements, and entire continents, it’s probably time to go back to the drawing board.
“If I could use words
Like scattering flowers and falling leaves,
What a bonfire my poems would make.”
#shogun
#Andor s2 is Battle of Algiers is space. It’s not only about the human cost of standing up to power, but also how most on the both sides are cogs on a wheel.
Great to see someone doing a morally complex, non-fluffy take on authoritarianism and resistance using blockbuster ip.
Anish Pallyal retweeted
The twist that no one saw coming: 'Another Round' was a reference to a Danish, Oscar-winning (best international film, 2020) film!
“This was the blissful break when the world seemed a safer place, between the end of the Cold War and about ten minutes later.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses
“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never sullied with a definite shape, which never needs to be exposed to a less loving gaze than that of its author.”
—J Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot)
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“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise above the conventional'.”
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“The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it. ”
