Art
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When the Forest Shaped Me
There was a phase in my early adulthood when much of my life unfolded in forests. By profession, I was there to survey frogs—walking streams at night, listening carefully to calls that rose from the dark. But beyond the work, I found myself wandering deeper into the forest, lingering on quiet trails, allowing it to Continue reading
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Peace Is Not the Absence of Struggle
In my last two blog posts, I may have sounded self-contradictory. One day, I wrote about carrying peace within the heart. The next, I questioned the beauty of perpetual peace. Today, I want to clarify what I truly meant. When I speak of perpetual peace, I imagine a kind of cosmic stillness—an unmoving universe, perfectly Continue reading
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A Bridge Between Science and Feeling
I often think about where science ends and feeling begins—if it does at all. Science asks for structure: measurements, names, carefully recorded facts. Feeling arrives differently—through silence, through dusk, through the way a forest changes its voice before rain. For a long time, I believed these two belonged to separate worlds. Time in the field Continue reading
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Consistency Beats Talent
We often glorify talent—natural brilliance, effortless charm, the kind of charisma that lights up a room. But life has a different scoreboard. Again and again, it rewards those who show up, not just those who shine. Consistency beats talent because talent without discipline burns out fast. It’s the person who keeps practicing, keeps learning, keeps Continue reading
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History Remembers the Ones Who Begin
Yesterday, I wrote about procrastination—not as laziness, but as a quiet force that keeps us trapped in the ordinary. If you want even a flicker of the extraordinary, you must break that spell. Start small.Start messy.Start scared.But start. Many years ago, I read something that stayed with me: when you begin anything meaningful, you will Continue reading
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Never Bring Logic to a Half-Knowledge Conversation
There’s a simple rule life teaches you—slowly, painfully, and with great clarity: never bring logic to a conversation where the other person is armed only with half-knowledge. Half-knowledge is loud. It is confident, stubborn, and strangely proud of its own limits. People who know only a fragment of the truth often speak like they’ve mastered Continue reading
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How a Random Thought Becomes a Song
Sometimes a thought appears out of nowhere—soft, fleeting, almost forgettable. But when you pause and hold it gently, it transforms. A random feeling becomes a single beautiful line, a line that suddenly carries more weight than you expected. Soon, that line attracts memories, emotions, and rhythm. It finds companions. A stanza forms—not because you forced Continue reading
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The only Joy we can Store
We often use the words pleasure, happiness, and fulfilment as if they belong to the same family of emotions. But they are not siblings. They are more like distant relatives—occasionally meeting, occasionally overlapping, but each carrying a very different temperament. Pleasure: The Flash of Ecstasy Pleasure is intense, intoxicating, and unmistakably temporary. It arrives like Continue reading
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On Judgment, Freedom and the Strength of Great Minds
“Great men neither judge people nor let other people’s judgment affect them; whereas, a common man pays too much attention to people’s judgment and depending upon act as a judge or a victim.” – Bhaskar Saikia Over the years, these words have aged like truth—they haven’t changed, but our understanding of them has. The Subtle Continue reading
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When Criticism Becomes a Sign of Growth
Most of us fear criticism. We take it as a personal attack, a sign of failure, or proof that we have done something wrong. But what if criticism is actually a sign that we are on the right path? What if being criticized means that we are no longer ordinary—that we are stepping out of Continue reading
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