Raulito

Author: Raulito

  • Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading

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    Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading When I think about the comics that shaped me, The Famous Five is not the first memory that comes up. Before that, there was another stack of books that I absolutely devoured: Indrajal Comics. Indrajal Comics were published in India by the Times Group…

  • Casa Orellana: A Classic Madrid Lunch Done Right

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    Some lunches are about the food.Others are about the people.And every now and then, you get one where both line up just right. Casa Orellana was that kind of lunch. We were three. Friends catching up after years, maybe even a decade, without any awkwardness, no forced updates, just easy conversation that picked up where…

  • Things I Quietly Judge (But Keep to Myself)

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    I like to think I’m a fairly tolerant person. I live in a big city. I’ve learnt patience. I’ve learnt to mind my business. I’ve learnt that everyone is fighting their own battles and that judging people rarely leads anywhere useful. And yet. There are things I quietly judge. Internally. Silently. With no intention of…

  • The Wishing-Chair Adventures and the Books That Started It All

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    Before The Famous Five, before long series and thicker novels, there were The Wishing-Chair Adventures. These were, as far as I can remember, the very first proper novels I ever read. I must have been around nine or ten. I was living in Mumbai then, and I wasn’t going out much. I used to fall…

  • Why I Started Blogging in 2026

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    If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be starting a blog in 2026, I probably would’ve laughed. Blogging felt like something from another internet era. Something we all did, or followed, in the early 2010s. Then somewhere along the way, it faded into the background. Replaced by feeds, reels, stories, algorithms,…

  • Why I Love Walking Alone

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    I love walking alone. Not in a dramatic, soul-searching kind of way. Just in a very practical, everyday way. Put my AirPods in, press play, and let the city do its thing while I do mine. I always walk with headphones. Always. Ever since I got the AirPods Pro, the noise cancellation has been a…

  • Confessions of a Taxi Lover

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    Why you’ll never catch me on the metro Everyone has habits they can’t shake. Mine? Taxis. Or Ubers. Or, back when I was living in Mumbai, rickshaws. It became such a running joke that even an ex-colleague once wrote a song about it. Complete with the line “taxi w***e.” Not my proudest nickname, but it…

  • The Famous Five, and Why I Still Think About Them

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    I think I was around nine or ten when I first read The Famous Five. This was well before Harry Potter came into the picture. Back then, reading felt quieter. Less of a trend, more of a habit you picked up if someone put the right book in your hands. I was living in Mumbai…

  • People Watching in Madrid

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    On some fin de semanas, I don’t really feel like doing much. No plans. No route. No “I should probably”. I step out, grab a coffee, sit somewhere, and that’s it. Madrid does the rest. I usually end up at a café or a terrace with a café con leche, letting it get lukewarm while…

  • Lately, I’ve Been Feeling the Need for a Shift

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    Not a plan. Just a feeling I don’t want to ignore. Lately, I’ve been feeling something stir. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just enough to notice it when things go quiet. I’ve spent over a decade and a half very focused on my career. Corporate life. Structure. Goals. Titles. Deliverables. And for a long time, that…