Seeking, ramblings, interspaced silence
- Doing NothingRecently I found myself napping in the sun without an alarm. Meandering in the grocery store and taking a long time between sets at the gym. Shooting a basketball and logging into my favorite video games. Cozying into the couch and driving with no ETA. Cutting up bowls of fruit and strolling along the beach.… Read More »Doing Nothing
- Old School Man of the World84 days ago, Papa (my dad) and I sat on the rainy banks of Ganga, completely bald save a small knot of hair at the top back of each of our heads, the rest lying at our feet. According to our Hindu tradition, men in the family shave their heads after the passing of an elder, marking a period of mourning and remembrance and instilling humility for the soul’s next journey. Today is that soul’s – my Dadaji’s – 88th birthday.
- Living romanticallyA year ago, I decided on a mantra for senior year of college, dropped my Econ major (there were two classes left for my degree that would have taken ~12 hours a week all put together, and attendance was mandatory), and bought (after years of desi-parent-derived fear mongering) some whey protein. The resulting past year… Read More »Living romantically
- My BadepapaOm. Two days ago, my dad lost his eldest brother – my Badepapa – to COVID, in India. I want to share my stories of one of the kindest and happiest people I was blessed to be loved by – someone that loved despite suffering an extraordinary allotment of life’s pain.
- Faith and EvidenceThe fact that organized religion (as an independent truth, or answer to questions of purpose and meaning) doesn’t allow for questioning, and the consequence that most religious people use this fact to reaffirm their beliefs… Faith, by definition, is bridging the evidence gap to believe in something.