AUGUST 2026ISSUE 01THE MAN WHO OWNS MY HEART“from the second when we met till the minute when you grow older with me till eternity.”The Problem With Leaving The Study In You The Things You Keep The Library of UsMargins a personal collectionIn the 1
11914THE LIBRARY OF USA STUDY IN YOUSOMEWHERE, STILL7THE PROBLEM WITH LEAVINGOn a man who somehow manages to occupy space in my life from 1700 kilometers away.Peculiar little things that make us who we are, together.Habits, contradictions, and other recurring characteritics.Places we have been, person you have become and everything more.Inside12
Gunjan Singh Editor/Collector/Unreliable Narrator Ronit Ghosh Subject/Birthday Boy/ Man in Question The Two of Us ContributorsAbout the SubjectTHE GAMERTHE F1 DEPARTMENTKnown to disappear into virtual worlds for questionable lengths of time, occasionally returning with stories, victories, and absolutely no concept of time.Responsible for an ongoing appreciation of very fast cars going around in circles.THE COLLECTORTHE SNACK DIVISIONA documented interest in things with wheels, screens, engines, and an inexplicable ability to become “just one more.”Currently under investigation for excessive Diet Coke, popcorn, chips and chocolate consumption.Somewhere between Delhi & Durgapurwww.reallygreatboyfriend.com hello@reallygreatsboyfriend.com @reallygreatboyfriendIntimatelyLove3 3
Twenty-four years is a strange amount of time to fit into a few pages especially when I have known for just one of them. So, this is not an attempt to do that. It is a collection of the things I have noticed, remembered, laughed at, missed, and loved about you.Somewhere along the way, knowing you became an exercise in noticing. The little things, the strange things, the things you probably do not realise anyone remembers. This is my rather incomplete record of them.EDITOR-IN-CHIEFGunju“There are a thousand ways to know someone. I chose to pay attention and shower love.”3From the Editor4
“He may be late to literally every stream, but somehow he still shows up when it matters. Unfortunately, we have accepted that he is completely whipped.”“He feels like my guardian angel for you. I know you're far apart, but somehow I know he's looking out for you.”YOUR FRIENDS,DISCORDHOMEGUNJAN’S MOMFrom our known5WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, WOOOOOOF. WOOOF. WOOOF. WOOOF!PET DEPARTMENTLEO
by Gunjan Singh The always aesthetic wannabe girl.THE STRONGEST STYLE STORIES BEGIN WITH CHARACTER, NOT A CHECKLIST.6RONIT GHOSHTAKES HIS TIME6
THE PROBLEM WITH LEAVINGBy Gunjan Singh From the personal archivesSome people leave behind places. Some carry pieces wherever they go.Leaving has never really meant disappearing. There are places that become part of you long after you've stopped living in them, people who remain familiar even when the distance between you changes, and versions of yourself that quietly follow you into whatever comes next.Ronit has spent twenty-four years becoming several different versions of himself. The boy he was, the person his friends know, the one who disappears into a game for hours, the one who is perpetually late to his own stream, and the one who somehow manages to be incredibly soft beneath all of it.Maybe that's the problem with leaving: you never really leave everything behind. You take the habits, the people, the places, the jokes, the memories and the little pieces of yourself that were shaped there. And somewhere along the way, without either of us noticing, some of those pieces found their way into my life too.77
he strongest parts of a person are rarely the loudest. They live in the details: the things he gets excited about, the things he remembers, the people he keeps close, and the small routines that somehow become unmistakably his.TPerhaps leaving isn't always about distance. Sometimes it is simply moving from one version of yourself into another. The old versions don't disappear; they become part of the person you carry forward. And maybe that's why knowing someone feels less like arriving at an answer and more like discovering another margin every time you look closer.There is something quietly interesting about watching someone grow into himself. Twenty-four is old enough to have accumulated a history, but young enough to still be figuring out what comes next. Somewhere between the two is where Ronit seems to exist — still becoming, without losing the person he already is.some things stay with you long after you have left behind.8
9A STUDY IN YOUBy Gunjan Singh The always wanna be aesthetic girlHABITS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND OTHER RECCURING CHARACTERISTICSThere are certain things about a person that become obvious only after you've known them for long enough. The way they speak, the things they get unnecessarily excited about, the habits they don't notice, and the tiny contradictions that somehow make perfect sense once you know the person behind them.Ronit is, among other things, perpetually late to his own streams, deeply invested in things that move very fast, inexplicably attached to certain snacks, and capable of being simultaneously chaotic and incredibly sweet. He has a tendency to make himself at home in the things he loves — games, cars, music, conversations, people.Perhaps the most interesting part is the contradiction. There is the version of him everyone sees: the gamer, the friend, the person his friends will happily call whipped. And then there is the softer version — the one that remembers, worries, stays, and cares more than he probably admits. Both are him. Neither cancels the other out.9
There is a particular kind of strength in someone who can be dependable without destroying himself trying to be everything for everyone. He shows up. He takes care of the people he loves. He gives without making a performance of it.He says sorry a lot. Sometimes for things that don't require an apology, sometimes before anyone has even had the chance to be upset. It is one of those little habits that says more about him than he probably realises. He cares about how his actions affect people, even when there is nothing to forgive.His memory could use some work. He will forget something completely ordinary and then, somehow, remember the smallest detail that matters. He may not always remember everything he was supposed to, but he has a way of making up for it — usually through some unexpectedly sweet gesture that makes it difficult to stay annoyed with him.HE KNOWS THAT HE IS MINE. THAT IS WHAT HE IS, IN FACT, PROUD OF.1010
There has always been something about the way you make things. Gaming was never simply about playing; it became a world to disappear into, explore, compete in and make your own. And somewhere alongside it came your love for graphic design — the instinct to look at something and wonder how it could be made differently.Then came the next thing. VFX. Another medium, another language to learn, another rabbit hole to fall into. You have this habit of finding something that interests you and then deciding, why not learn how to make it myself? The medium changes, but the curiosity doesn't.“PLACES WE HAVE BEEN, THE PERSON YOU HAVE BECOME, AND EVERYTHING STILL AHEAD.”The medium changes, The instinct to create does not,11SOMEWHERE, STILL.Maybe that's what I admire most. You don't need to be immediately good at something to want to understand it. You try different tools, different forms and different ways of creating until something clicks. Games, graphics, VFX — they may look unrelated from the outside, but underneath them is the same person: someone who genuinely loves making things and keeps finding new ways to express it.
THEof uslibraryBy Rachna Trivedi Photography by Jaya ShahA COLLECTION OF THE WORLDS YOU KEEP RETURNING TO.Maybe that's what a library really is — not just books, but everything that gives a person somewhere to go. A game you disappear into. A race you refuse to miss. A design you want to understand. A car you want to own. A song you play again. A snack you buy without thinking. Different shelves. Same person.Gaming has always been one of the biggest rooms in it. Then there is F1, where apparently watching extremely fast cars go around a track is a perfectly reasonable way to spend several hours. Hot Wheels occupy another shelf. Somewhere nearby are the PC things, the designs, the ideas you keep picking apart just to see how they work. And then there are the smaller entries: Diet Coke, popcorn, chips, chocolate, the foods that have somehow earned permanent residency.Then there is streaming — another little world you've built for yourself. A place where gaming becomes something you can share, where people get to know the person behind the screen, and where I have watched you slowly make something of your own. And somehow, between all of this, you still find things to study. Not because someone told you to. Because you wondered.1412
You have this habit of falling down rabbit holes. A new subject becomes a question, the question becomes research, and suddenly you're learning about something completely unrelated to what you started with. Technology, design, games, cars, VFX, whatever happens to catch your attention that week — you want to know how it works. And then there is me, apparently occupying an entire, rather permanent section of the library. I don't know exactly which shelf I belong on. Maybe somewhere between the things you return to without thinking and the things you never quite get tired of. But I like knowing that I have a place here.13
By Gunjan SinghPhotography / ArchivesTHE SMALLEST THINGS OFTEN MAKE THE CLEAREST POTRAIT.12The Things We Keep14
A few things occupying my shelf.1315
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