It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD.

It has been a while since 2024 is over--and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we reflect on how previous year was.

I am writing this newsletter about how I became a runner and how my journey has come to shape me. Today has been good so far. I did the Parkrun today.

Alfie, as some Aussies would call it—hit Queensland's shore. Some 50 years ago, Cyclone Althea hit Queensland and it's history.

In this newsletter, I try making sense of writing and life. I will instead put the rest of my energy into writing my newsletter.

I completed a few books I had read halfway through, wrote reviews for those books I had read in between, and even managed to read fiction in a day. In this newsletter entry, I will list out some of ...

Orhan Pamuk, Austin Kleon, and Paul Graham--whose writings I have come across recently and admire their tips for writing well.

Philosophical thought experiments are hypothetical situations that are intended to help with the exploration of complex philosophical concepts and issues. These hypothetical situations frequently put ...

Aníbal Quijano, a Peruvian sociologist, in his essay “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality”, originally published in the 1990s, makes a case for the role of modernity/rationality in sustaining ...

Poetry evokes emotions. Perhaps when the world turns a blind eye to the horrors in Palestine, it is crucial to read poems. In these crazy times, there is nothing like poetry to remind ourselves of ...

When Sam Altman’s OpenAI released ChatGPT, I was clearly amazed. ChatGPT did most of everything that Google did before it, calculators did before Google, and humans did before calculators. In the last ...

Recently, I watched Joyland online after much buzz and enthusiasm around Pakistani director Saim Sadiq’s new film. The movie unravels the entangled lives of the protagonists and their hostages to ...