I finished reading the book, “Breath : The new science of a lost art” yesterday. I dabbled with reading several books during the last few months, but the chaotic mindset led to nothing going all the way. And so when a friend suggested that I take a look at this book by James Nestor, I […]
I have been reading this webcomic for a while. Set in a post-apocalyptic world (more precisely, a nuclear war), it meanders through the perspective of a cyborg. The author has introduced several characters, and an annoying and possibly evil-like one was Darla. She was partly responsible for the readers to develop sympathy for the cyborg, […]
DO NOT LISTEN !! To those sitting on their comfy chairs Of visible and invisible privileges Who demean your fear and anxiety REFUSE !! To be compared to those on the frontlines of the battle. Their suffering is worse In some objective social measure. But your anxiety does not diminish, For only you are dealing […]
Diving after nightfall. Some people just avoid it. Either for the fear of being lost in the nothingness under a mountain of water pressure; Or that there isn’t much to see, except what the torchlight can illuminate. I like them because it feels like being lost in the nothingness, or that I can’t see much. […]
There are people who make a deep impact on your life, not in the obvious way of getting you a job, or financing your education, supporting your dreams, but in inculcating a habit or two that defines a particular trait in you. The last time I met Naveen Shetty was during a hike in 2009 […]
I have been consistently given suggestion from mostly extroverted individuals about the need to break free from the mental shackles. But I realized an odd sense of rigidity inbuilt inside me that frequently barricaded efforts to do so. Oftentimes these barricades appear permanent, innately created during birth. Not considering the permanence of them, I realized […]
Note: This is a fairly long article. If you just want my answer to the question, you can skip to the last section. India Back in 2005, I went on my first hiking trip with the group from my workplace in the Western Ghats. During the hike, as we got clouded by the monsoon fury […]
One of my friends sometime back had had a laugh when he subjected his cat to the Brexit kitty challenge, and then in a matter of days felt bad about it after he read the arduous history of Britain’s place in the European Union. He felt that he had not understood the issue sufficiently and […]
Sometime a dive into the ocean provides a different set of memories
Another day in Paris. And another morning walk to little Jaffna (this is how people call the street next to Gare du Nord station in Paris, due to the concentration of Tamil shops and restaurants. The name refers to the Tamil province in Srilanka from where many fled the civil war in the 80s and […]
Yaali and Reality 