Navneet Shukla

An Astrologer's Day by RK Narayan is a story about a fraud. A man who knows nothing about the stars. Who cannot read the future. Who sits…

Do people think AI is conscious? Most people, if asked directly, would say no. They know they are talking to software. They understand, at least intellectually, that…

Why do we rehearse arguments that never happen? Because the brain cannot tell the difference between a problem that has been resolved and a problem that has…

Why nothing feels real anymore is not a question most people ask out loud. They sit with it. They notice it at odd moments. On a Tuesday…

Deep questions to ask someone to know them better are rarer than they should be. Most conversations stay on the surface because both people let them. You…

The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty is not a long story. You can read it in eight minutes. Maybe ten if you pause at the ending, which you…

The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore is twelve pages long. Twelve pages. Written in 1891. And yet here you are, years after Class 9, still thinking about Ratan…

What were you like in the 90s? The question is everywhere right now. On social media. In comment sections. In the particular glow that comes over someone's…

The psychology of identity tells us that the self is not fixed. But nobody warns you what it actually feels like when it starts to shift. It…

Psilocybin without hallucinations has been the goal of psychedelic medicine for most of the last decade. This week, for the first time, something that looks credibly like…

Kama is the most misunderstood word in all of Hindu philosophy. Say it to most people and they think of one thing. The Kama Sutra. Dimly lit…

Pretend play apes. That sentence would have been scientifically controversial five years ago. It is now the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science…

Are fireflies disappearing? The short answer is yes, in many places, measurably and quietly, for reasons that have everything to do with how humans have reorganised the…

Moksha is the fourth and final aim of Purushartha, and it is the one modern life has the least language for. Dharma, we understand, at least conceptually.…

Adult ADHD has become one of the defining medical conversations of the 2020s. A 2024 meta-analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry puts the global figure at 366.3 million…

Proto-writing Stone Age artifacts are forcing a rewrite of one of humanity's oldest assumptions. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on…

To understand this properly, we first need to clarify Artha meaning in Hindu philosophy. In the Purusharth framework, Artha is one of the four aims of human…

Why South Asian parents don't say I love you is one of those questions that gets asked in hushed tones, usually between friends who grew up in…