Personal

Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga

Like day after night

Get me out of this damned spot

Grief is pain felt in other bodies

The life of an expat in Oxford

The intro to the intro of a book

Grouches of the world unite

We try to teach them, but what do we know?

When someone close dies and you’re far away

and I feel fine

How we exist on many dimensions at once

On mental health and material conditions.

I never wanted to be some scribe of collapse, least of all for my own country

How I’ve learned to over-react as Sri Lanka collapses

Lol I don't know

Leaving my country as it collapses.

Having a drink while it all goes down

When the world goes mad, only a crazy person stays sane

On losing a young friend

This is the saddest Vesak I remember

In a rather stressful life

Being a citizen and a consumer all the time sucks. We’re social animals and being disconnected hurts

Life under wave after wave of disaster

We have 13 hour powercuts now, and people are enraged

Whiteness is losing power, and I can feel it

Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien

Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality

We are born together and die together

The poverty at our doorsteps

How much money I make from this newsletter.

RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone

Some Christ for Christmas

Crawling out of the pandemic foxhole for a self-declared Christmas truce

You can go home, but you can never return

There's always children

You don't need to be rich, famous, or powerful to be happy. You just need enough

The patriarchy starts young

The comfort and conflict of domestic work

And how I never made it home

Lessons from locking a kid in a room (not on purpose)

When the world is going mad, it’s insane to not change

Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire

Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible

A perception, a memory, a book

I grew up in the American Dream. It’s become a nightmare

Breaking the first rule of capitalism (don’t talk about capitalism)

It’s almost surreal

Connecting a longer thread

First newsletter

I live, which makes me very lucky