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The Long View Letters

Skendha Singh

Are you tired of the 'everything-everywhere-all-at-once' world we live in? The Long View Letters is a quiet corner for the overwhelmed. Think of these as notes from a fellow traveler who has been marking inches of the same gravelly way we call the creative life. Come and linger.

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On Making a Khichdi (And the Absence of Geometries)

The Long View Letters Issue 03 (May 17, 2026) On Making a Khichdi: (And the Absence of Certainties) The truth is I love straight lines. I admire mathematical precision. If life were Euclidean geometry, I'd think it a delight (even though I hated the subject in school). For all these reasons, I admire bakers and baking. It is a science. Numbers of eggs, ounces of flour, degrees of heat, allowances for fan-assisted ovens. On the other end, a fork that comes out clean. And, as often as you like,...

5 days ago • 4 min read

The Long View Letters Issue 02 (May 3, 2026) The Long View Letters essays ~ miscellanies ~ invitations Hello & welcome to the very first edition of Miscellanies from The Long View Letters!On 26 April 2026, the internet would have you know that Uranus entered Gemini after spending eight years in Taurus, having, what I would like to call, a titanic tantrum. Imagine hiring an inventor to lay bricks as per a bureaucratic blueprint. Understandably, the wiry genius had many deep and lasting...

19 days ago • 2 min read

The Long View Letters Issue 01 (April 19, 2026) On Rereading: (And Why I'm Still on Volume IV of IX) Here is the truth: I am a writer who has often struggled with a reading habit. Picking a new book, keeping up with bestseller lists (let alone book clubs), and setting reading challenges has felt incredibly hard. Perhaps part of it is down to how I feel about reading itself. I grew up in India, where the education system emphasized learning by rote. We had to memorize quadratic equations,...

about 1 month ago • 6 min read