The privilege of not knowing yet
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aarya
Thinking about the modern world through history, politics, and the strange anthropology of the internet.
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A Memoir from the Day I Learned Defeat
They say time is the great architect of healing, that it softens every edge and buries every ache beneath enough seasons.
Jazz is a conversation, not a monologue
It was a cozy Sunday evening, my sister and I were trying to make thai curry from a recipe we got off reels, my dogs were asleep, watching us from a distance.
A list of traits that i think make someone genuinely worth knowing
(from a professional people watcher)
The Green Guilt of Oil-Rich Nations, And Why It Should Make All of Us Uncomfortable!!!!
Recently I developed a new hyperfixation: caring about the environment. I'm a little ashamed it didn't come sooner.
Why every girl you know is obsessed with off campus: A Deep Dive Into Dopamine, The Female Psyche, and the Quiet Genius of the Rom-Com Industrial Complex
and why its totally okay to be so obsessed with it.
I have a overconsumption problem and so do you, probably.
I am the target demographic and I am so tired of myself.
whose gaze are you standing in when you look at Indian artifacts?
on decontextualisation, colonial curating, and the gaze you didn't know you were standing in.
On Social Saturation and the Death of Discovery
the internet gave us everything and somehow that's the problem
History Has a Grammar Problem.
Every sentence that begins with a woman doing something consequential ends with the man she was doing it beside. I am done accepting that redirect.
Decolonising knowledge: re-reading Indian history and texts beyond colonial-era categories and biases.
On unlearning Macaulay, rediscovering Manusmriti discourse, and why your NCERT textbook was always a little sus.
How politeness became the most elegant tool of social control ever invented
Jane Austen wasn't writing romance novels. She was filing ethnographic reports on a society that weaponized good manners, and we've been falling for the cover story ever since.
We Don’t Live in Reality: We Live in Interpretations: From Jane Austen to Modern Consciousness
Your perception isn't a window. It's a story you've been telling yourself so long it started to feel like the news.
The Illusion of Linear Time in Literature
Linear time:the idea that life unfolds in a neat sequence of past, present, future is not reality. It is a narrative convenience. Literature, especially modernist literature, exposes this illusion.
Schrödinger’s Cat, or the Quiet Absurdity of Being.
Is the myth of meaning so fragile, or does the universe just not notice?
In Praise of the Amateur Mind
On curiosity, connection, and thinking beyond intellectual silos.