Tag: 2026
What I learnt from my kurdish barber in london
What I learnt from my barber in London is something I realised only after the haircut was done and when I was already outside. That is the thing about a good story. It keeps you warm long enough that you do not notice you are leaving with less than you came for. It was one…
Five pieces of good news March 2026 that nobody put in the feed
There is good news March 2026, quite a lot of it, and none of it made the main feed. Not because it was small. Because the feed runs on alarm, and none of these stories had any. No crisis, no casualty, no countdown. Just things that went quietly, stubbornly right while everything else was loud.…
What is dharma? what the mahabharata knew about losing everything
What is Dharma? It is the question the Mahabharata spends eighteen books answering and never quite resolves. That is not a failure of the text. That is the point. The oldest stories we have are not about winning. They are about what a person does when the ground gives way. When the thing they built…
Why dont men ask follow-up questions? the answer is more interesting than you think
Why dont men ask follow-up questions is one of those complaints that surfaces constantly. In dating conversations. In friendships. In marriages that have been running for twenty years. A woman finishes saying something. A man responds. He does not ask what happened next. He does not ask how she felt. He moves on or offers…
Yoga Kshema Meaning: the bhagavad gita verse nobody finishes reading
Yoga kshema meaning, in its simplest translation, is this: acquisition and preservation. Yoga is the act of obtaining what you do not yet have. Kshema is the act of protecting what you already do. Two words. Two anxieties. The entire architecture of the human mind. The verse they come from is Chapter 9, Verse 22…
They were always going to leave. that was the point.
Letting go of your children is not a single moment. It is a thousand quiet losses that begin long before they leave, and long before you are ready. There is a specific kind of grief that has no funeral. No date to mark. No ritual to contain it. Nobody brings you flowers. Nobody asks how…
What Kama Actually Means: the ancient secret nobody told you about pleasure
There is a word you already know. You know it the way most people know it. As something charged. Something that requires a lowered voice or a knowing look. Something that sits in the imagination alongside incense and candlelight and the particular silence of a room where two people have decided to stop talking. The…
Brain rot: the science behind the word oxford made official
Brain rot was a joke until the neuroscience caught up with it. Oxford University Press named it Word of the Year for 2024, defining it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state from excessive exposure to low-quality online content. The word itself is not new. It first appeared in Henry David…
How the shows you watch are quietly teaching you marketing
Marketing lessons from TV shows are rarely what people expect to find. But they are there. In every episode. Not a textbook. Not a lecture. Not a course you paid for. The shows you watch late at night. The characters you follow. The lines that surface in your mind weeks later when you are doing…
Why does music give you chills? the science behind Frisson
Why does music give you chills? Because your brain just did something extraordinary. It predicted beauty. And it was right. That shiver down your spine has a name. Scientists call it frisson, from the French word for a brief but intense feeling. Most people describe it as goosebumps, a sudden tightening in the chest, hair…
