Author name: Avishek

I’ve always been Hindu by birth, but I’d be lying if I called myself a strict practitioner. I eat meat, I enjoy an occasional drink, and my daily prayer routine is practically non-existent. Most of my Muslim friends find grounding in a beautifully structured, daily prayer routine, but I don’t have a set schedule for […]

I don’t know about you, but almost all the important events that occurred in my life weren’t my first choices. Not even my second. In fact, many were things I once thought I’d never do. These kinds of detours have happened so often that I decided to write a blog post about it. This isn’t

On 17 January 2022, at 3:45 am, my body shivered as if I was lying outside on a freezing night. But that wasn’t the case, I was inside the bed enjoying the comfort of a warm blanket. A day before, during the afternoon, I felt some glitch in my throat while supervising soil investigation work

Upon asking a vivid reader for suggesting a book that is short and sweet, my colleague recommended me, “Tuesdays with Morrie”. I finished it in 3 days, and I liked it. This writing, more than a summary is a collection of texts from the book that I liked and would someday come back to it.

You got to finish what you started. Always be closing. One of the crucial lessons that I learned in life is to finish off what’s started. Be it writing an article, walking 5 km, making a website, learning a song on guitar, or anything, it’s vital to complete it. Else the energy that I spent,

The pandemic has certainly made our world crazy and uncertain. People are dying and the economy is suffering. Many of us have lost our jobs and even dear ones. It has in one way or the other but definitely affected our normal lives, be it wearing a mask, maintaining social distance or travelling sparsely. In

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle didn’t fully agree on a definition of happiness. Socrates and Plato argued that it wasn’t just up to fate, luck, or the gods and it was up to the people themselves. To them, happiness was the ultimate goal, something far greater than mere earthly satisfaction. Aristotle, on the other hand, saw

Currently, most people are throwing away words like quarantine, isolation and social distancing. Even for myself, I have been using these words synonymously without much care. But turns out, there are differences in these terms which I came to know quite late. Quarantines are for people or groups who don’t have symptoms but were exposed

Hey Rain. Just what are you? As a child, I used to think whenever god cried, his tears were you. As I grew up, my innocence blurred, I learned the precipitation process and could somewhat figure you out. But despite where you belong, I’m just so freakily surprised with the range of emotions that you

I was fortunate enough to participate in a program organized by Kyoto University in Japan, along with its partner universities. It was a short term international program on Resilient Society Development under Changing Climate.  Although the course was for one month, I had enough memories to last a whole life. My first visit to Japan