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Wishing upon a star, for the world.

“A spec of dust. Or to be more precise, nothing.” I could hear my father’s voice as we stared at the night sky lit up with stars…

Dec 31, 2023

Wishing upon a star, for the world.

Dec 31, 2023

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One Earth

Women and the curse of perfection

(and before we get our hopes up, imperfection is not going to get us much further either)

1d ago

Women and the curse of perfection

1d ago

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The Eight Limbs

Rediscovering the Third Limb

We did not even have those mats or the sheet (Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)

Sep 3

Rediscovering the Third Limb

Sep 3

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One Earth

Good immigrants, bad immigrants

After catching a few glimpses of the RNC convention last week, an old picture began to re-emerge. It was a picture that had been painted a…

Jul 29

Good immigrants, bad immigrants

Jul 29

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Monsoon Musings

What is in a name? A lot, actually.

My name stood out, especially in my Kindergarten class. Or for the rest of my life, for that matter, more than half of which happens to be…

May 17

What is in a name? A lot, actually.

May 17

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Monsoon Musings

The three generalizations I most frequently encounter as an immigrant of Indian origin

In my thirty years of life in the United States, the three most common assumptions that people (including many that belong to the same…

Jan 13

The three generalizations I most frequently encounter as an immigrant of Indian origin

Jan 13

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Monsoon Musings

Happiness in my world, in no specific order

A cup of coffee and the newspaper on Saturday mornings while looking out into the backyard and sorting my thoughts into neat little buckets…

Sep 3, 2023

Happiness in my world, in no specific order

Sep 3, 2023

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One Earth

The color gradient: An unconscious bias? Hardly.

I am not very creative when it comes to spending quality time with the kids. It starts with current events and ends up being lessons in…

Jul 20, 2023

The color gradient: An unconscious bias? Hardly.

Jul 20, 2023

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One Earth

Florida Man, California Mom: A tale of gender based identities

They are everywhere — in California, Washington and Montana; in Texas, Florida and Virginia; in all the states in between. They are also…

Jun 11, 2023

Florida Man, California Mom: A tale of gender based identities

Jun 11, 2023

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One Earth

200th mass shooting in 2023 — we will surely wake up to the 201st in just days

This is probably going to be my shortest Medium post ever. Short because there is nothing that I can say that has not been said already…

May 8, 2023

200th mass shooting in 2023 — we will surely wake up to the 201st in just days

May 8, 2023

Sravasti Nair

Sravasti Nair

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

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