The Clock in the Sky

How India Learned to Read the Date Off the Stars I moved to a new city in the United States for work, and getting to know other Indians there mostly meant festivals. I started noticing the prescribed timing : Diwali puja was on "Kartik, Amavasya, Pradosh Kaal," Ganesh Chaturthi fell on "Bhadrapad, Shukla Paksha, Chaturthi." And at the office a curious non-Indian colleague would turn to me and ask the obvious thing: what does that mean, and why tonight and not some other night

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The Clock in the Sky

How India Learned to Read the Date Off the Stars I moved to a new city in the United States for work, and getting to know other Indians there mostly meant festivals. I started noticing the prescribed timing : Diwali puja was on "Kartik, Amavasya, Pradosh Kaal," Ganesh Chaturthi fell on "Bhadrapad, Shukla Paksha, Chaturthi." And at the office a curious non-Indian colleague would turn to me and ask the obvious thing: what does that mean, and why tonight and not some other night

2 days ago34 min read

The social dilemma 🏙️

This day and age we are all busy juggling 100 tasks while our attention is splintered into 1000 fragments. The depth and complexities of life (your and everyone's) - let alone the experience of truly living it - seem to have no place in our rushed conclusions and polarized interactions. I am no exception my self. What's particularly troubling is how my generation, despite (or perhaps because of) this shallow engagement with life's complexities, tends to form rigid, oversimpli

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