Social Awareness
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Americans Just Don’t Care: Why I Struggle in the U.S.
*note: in my daily life I make it a practice not to say ‘America’, because there isn’t just one, but for the purposes of this article I may say it so as to be more understood. In recent years, a lot of people have asked me what it is that I dislike so much about
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Capitalism is Still Going to Capitalise
Have you ever noticed that everyone everywhere is being priced out of their country by foreigners with more money? I move to your country for a better quality of life. You move to mine for the same. And it just goes on and on like this in an endless loop. I get priced out of
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India, Not Without Fault
India, like everywhere else, is not a perfect place. In fact, it’s far from perfect. There is an incredible amount of visible poverty, which nothing truly prepares you to witness. As much as I love it, I always tell people—I’d never live here. I’ve always been fully aware that my experience of India has been
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India, The Motherland
I don’t think I’ve ever really written about India despite the strong feelings I have about the country. It probably got written off as one of those stories I would tell people in real life when we gather, but considering how little of that happens these days I may as well write it down before
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Give Me Back My Nokia 3310
Is anyone else absolutely tired of information and opinions? I have truly had my fill of the internet. The thought I am having now is that once I move somewhere (hopefully sooner than later), I will look at getting a house phone and a cellphone that does not have internet and this will be my
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Their Eyes Were Watching Your Pockets
If I were still blogging regularly, I definitely would’ve written a few on Egypt and my experience here over the last few days. Never have I been so conflicted about a place before as I have been about Egypt. Obviously the historical significance and remnants of ancient civilisations we still have yet to understand are
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I Left, But I Haven’t Stopped Being Angry
Hello readers. I know I left you hanging for the last year — and it saddens me that some of you predicted this would happen. By all rationale, I should have had so much to write about over the last year of not having a full-time job and of traveling to so many places. But
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It’s Not the Silence, it’s the Meditation
I have now completed my 4th sitting of silence, and second 10-day vipassana meditation course as taught by S.N Goenka. I realise I have not written much about the experiences (except that my second sitting inspired me to start my book so I can’t really say that). There is good reason though. As much as
