Authenticity & Vulnerability

On identity, faith, mortality, and the immigrant journey — the harder conversations about who we are when no one's watching.

Authenticity & Vulnerability April 2026

I Used to Know How to Spell

My teenager asked if ChatGPT could write the essay, and I still don't know if my answer was about honesty or fear.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability December 2025

Ellora - Miracle in Stone

Standing inside caves carved by hand centuries ago, I felt embarrassingly small, and I mean that as a compliment.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability October 2025

How to Become an Overnight Expert in Everything

My own family once treated me like I was nobody, and it took me years to build the confidence that proved them wrong.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability August 2025

Finding the Signal in a World of Status Updates

Scrolling through everyone's curated wins made me ask what I'm actually chasing when I post mine.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability June 2025

Lies We Tell Ourselves

I keep waiting for my life to look like the one I imagined, and I finally asked why I expected that in the first place.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability November 2024

The Cost of Our Failures

I watched him cook dinner with effortless grace and spent the rest of the night quietly measuring myself against it.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability September 2022

Rewind - an unfinished story

The plane shook so violently I genuinely thought that flight might be my last, and I still think about what almost happened.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability March 2022

Death - the Ultimate Truth

I keep wondering why we'll talk about almost anything except the one thing guaranteed to happen to all of us.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability February 2022

The Green Card Diary

I arrived in America in the early '90s with more hope than plan, and I'm still not sure which one carried me further.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability June 2021

Me

I tried to answer who I actually am underneath writer, technologist, father, and son, and I'm still not done.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability February 2014

Breaking Free

Leaving India as a young adult taught me that choosing the unfamiliar path is a habit, not a one-time decision.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability August 2000

Caught Between Two Worlds

Watching the sunset, I found myself asking, again, whether it's finally time to move back to India.

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Authenticity & Vulnerability "2023-01-01"

A Spirited Adventure: My Misadventures with Alcohol

I'm finally telling the truth about my long, complicated relationship with drinking.

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