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Sravasti Nair

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The Eight Limbs

Why Meditate, And Does It Really Work? The Mysticism Versus The Reality Of The Ancient Practice

Concentration is the process of holding or fixing the attention of mind onto one object or location.

3d ago

Why Meditate, And Does It Really Work? The Mysticism Versus The Reality Of The Ancient Practice

3d ago

Published in
The Eight Limbs

Once A Type-A, Always A Type-A?

The first time I heard the term ‘Type-A’ as a personality trait was also the time when I discovered I apparently possessed this trait. I…

Mar 23

Once A Type-A, Always A Type-A?

Mar 23

Published in
One Earth

Am I a hypocrite for wanting AI to code but not write? Where is the demarcation — or is there one?

I am not a coder or a software developer. My background is in Electrical Engineering and specifically in chip design. But as most chip or…

Mar 11

Am I a hypocrite for wanting AI to code but not write? Where is the demarcation — or is there one?

Mar 11

Published in
One Earth

How We Perceive Accents and What That Says About Us

By the time I was 10 or so, I had changed school multiple times as my family moved from one part of India to another. The school I was…

Mar 4

How We Perceive Accents and What That Says About Us

Mar 4

Published in
One Earth

Seeking Solace In Troubled Times — Seeing Past The Collective Dissonance

It is easy to lose hope. It is hard to see through the chaos and cruelty — for lack of a better word and as a counter-expression for…

Feb 26

Seeking Solace In Troubled Times — Seeing Past The Collective Dissonance

Feb 26

Published in
One Earth

Not Just Words: Seeing Poverty The Way It Is (And Actually Seeing It)

Poverty. It is a word that we get used to because it is the biggest divide across societies around the world. It is a comfort and a solace…

Feb 19

Not Just Words: Seeing Poverty The Way It Is (And Actually Seeing It)

Feb 19

Published in
The Eight Limbs

How Not To Be Oneself: Changing The Way We Communicate At Work

When I first started my career as an engineer in Silicon Valley almost 30 years back, I was naive and gender oblivious. I know it sounds…

Feb 11

How Not To Be Oneself: Changing The Way We Communicate At Work

Feb 11

Published in
Monsoon Musings

The Way We Were: Why We Should Reconnect With Our Past Selves

In his much viewed TED talk ‘You don’t actually know what your future self wants’, Shankar Vedantam, host of NPR podcast ‘The Hidden…

Feb 3

The Way We Were: Why We Should Reconnect With Our Past Selves

Feb 3

Published in
One Earth

Is Dreaming An Entitlement? The Artificial Boundaries That Make It So.

I think it was called ‘The Radiant Reader’, or may be the ‘New Horizon Reader’? Basically, it was one of those legacy textbooks left behind…

Jan 24

Is Dreaming An Entitlement? The Artificial Boundaries That Make It So.

Jan 24

Published in
The Eight Limbs

Three, four, five: The ancient approach to taming the mind and harnessing the power within

Mindfulness has become a buzzword of sorts in recent years as a way to deal with a multitude of issues — physical or mental — whether as a…

Jan 8

Three, four, five: The ancient approach to taming the mind and harnessing the power within

Jan 8

Sravasti Nair

Sravasti Nair

she/her

Relentless reader, sporadic writer, passionate about technology, literature and history as means to build a more compassionate world.

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