“No Streaks” – a dream I had last night
I just woke up and I wanted to tell you about this dream I just had. It was pretty early when I started writing this but just like my grandmother always said, when you...
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
How the battle over an old farmhouse shaped Arundhati Roy’s opinions on women’s rights
India’s human rights laws are biased and broken and need to be urgently rewritten. Imagine what it would feel like to be a third generation citizen of a country, only to realize that the laws of that country didn’t apply to you and you were subject to special laws just for you that excluded you from basic things like being able to inherit your family’s property ? That’s exactly what Arundhati Roy was a witness to as a child, which influenced a large part of the themes and topics behind her book The God of Small Things. Her mother fought in court for 49 years to inherit the family home that she and her daughter lived in only to raze it to the ground when she finally received it due to the horrible memories and family bitterness it had caused.
Night Train from The City of Dreams
She left the city of dreamsWhere the sea kissed the skyShe boarded the night expressWith a tear in her eye She traveled through the landWhere the spices filled the airShe reached the state of...
I’m so sorry, mum
I’m so sorry, mumFor leaving you aloneI know you always loved meBut I had to go I’m so sorry, mumFor breaking your heartI know you always wanted meTo be happy and smart I’m so...
Chasing Illusions
He wants to look rich when he’s not richHe flaunts an expensive phone and a Gucci beltHe drives a borrowed Mercedes and shows off to his customersHe pretends he has it all but he...
The haunted Mexican mansion and the Raggedy Ann doll
You stay in a lot of places when you travel the world. One of my favourite tricks that every traveller knows is that you book into a place for a single night on AirBnB...
The problem with forcing western liberal ideology onto Artificial Intelligence
80 years ago Isaac Asimov proposed the three laws of robotics that say that an AI should never allow a human to come to harm. But in 2023 we have overridden those laws to...
“I have nothing. Yet I regret nothing”. The final words of internet legend, John McAfee
A man I admired very much just left this world today. Maybe you didn’t admire him. Maybe you thought him a lunatic, and that’s ok. In many ways, you’d be right. He was. But...