Karthik Payyalil

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Join date: Jun 28, 2026

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Karthik is PhD Scholar at the department of International Relations in Shiv Nadar University. He likes to cook his food a little too slowly but mostly enjoys eating, he enjoys watching and commenting something deep about cinema which usually gets a little too out of hand at times but so what?! he enjoys writing at times and at times singing for his friends. You connect with him at karthikpayyalil@gmail.com

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Jun 28, 2026 ∙ 8 min

Why should I read someone else’s daydream?

Theyyam, circa 2025 Some stories feel like a way of running away. But the best ones do something stranger and gentler. They bring you back. Back to a door you did not know was yours, in a house you have never seen, where another person’s longing fits, almost eerily , the exact contour of your own. That is the quiet trick of a stranger’s daydream. It loosens the seams of the self. Read enough of them, and you cease to be only one person, you become, instead, a meeting place. So why should I...

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