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As a child, I was convinced that space was home and the stars were my parents. Earth felt like a temporary stopover — a place I was visiting, not a place I belonged. I didn’t understand humans, not really. Their emotions were too complex, too unpredictable, too fragile. Then my grandfather died. I didn’t understand…
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A Valentine’s Day Reflection Every Valentine’s Day, we’re told the same story: two halves searching for each other, two incomplete souls hoping someone else will fill the spaces they cannot fill themselves. It’s poetic. It’s romantic. But it’s not how nature works. Humans were never designed as halves. We were designed as whole beings —…
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There are places in the world that hold more than history—they hold memory, promise, and destiny. For me, that place is Benaras, the eternal city, where the sacred Kashi Vishwanath Temple and the revered Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple became the backdrop of a vow I made as a 14-year-old boy. I was sick then, struggling…
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A Personal Threshold, A Public Reckoning On the 15th of October, I crossed a threshold I never saw coming. I was rushed to Accident & Emergency at St Mary’s Hospital, London, with an unsustainable heart rate—later diagnosed as high atrial fibrillation (AF). My body was in crisis. My heart, volatile beyond measure. And yet, what…
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“Necessity might be the mother of invention, but it was grief, erosion, and silence that shaped me into an architect. I didn’t choose to build—I had to“ I didn’t enter finance to chase wealth. I entered by accident. I wanted to be a scientist. I was drawn to inquiry, to the elegance of cause and…
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There’s a certain kind of magic that only travel can offer—the kind that doesn’t just change your surroundings but transforms your very being. My life in London and my travels across Europe have been more than just a series of destinations; they’ve been a mosaic of moments, people, and places that have shaped the person…
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Life is a journey filled with trials, tribulations, and moments of profound beauty. It is a path we walk knowing full well that it will be punishing, that we will fall in love only to have our hearts broken, and that we will face moments of misery and despair. Yet, it is precisely these experiences…
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