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Nanowrimo: Writing a 50,000 Word Book While Traveling
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Sometimes, you just need to take on a challenge.Nanowrimo, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is a monthlong activity that happens every November,...
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An Unexpected Asian Wedding Tour
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});When dreams come true, they no longer seem like dreams. For me to imagine that, when I first took an airplane abroad alone, to Paris, that I had no...
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Life, Death and Remembering
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});One day, when I was in high school, I returned home from school to find my grandma, Amama in Telugu, laying on the sofa, still.I walked over, slowly....
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My Path: Being Vegetarian
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});A genuine choice never feels like a sacrifice. If you act from your heart, instead of feeling constrained, following your values is liberating. When...
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Am I Asian too?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Let me start on a lighter note – an anecdote from my Freshman year of College, more than 10 years ago. I was at the In-N-Out across the street from...
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Double Minority: South Indian in America
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});This piece is the second in a series of articles on Asian culture and identity – starting with my experiences growing in America. Originally appeared...
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Alone on New Years
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});The following is a letter I sent to my close friends on New Years and I wanted to share it with the world as well. Happy 2014 everyone!To my friends,...
View ArticleNithin Coca, MIA
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It finally happened. I’m done. It is with both a sense of relief, and also some nostalgia, that I write this post. I sit outside the same cafe where...
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Defining Myself – Actions vs. Interests
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Some thoughts in my head the past few days. One is on how we define ourselves. I recently joined MyCupid, which has thus far been fairly useless, but...
View ArticleInspiration – Shut up and Write
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It’s been three years since I first went to a Shut up and Write meetup in San Francisco. The meeting was at Crossroads Cafe, near the Embarcadero....
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Jakarta is Writing
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In my last post about Indonesia, I wrote Had I not been there, Jakarta would still have gone on, and the city wouldn’t have noticed. It was a one-way...
View ArticleLiving Without Regrets
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Death is the unbeatable ghost, always creeping ever closer. A few days ago, it hit me closely again – I found out that one of my friends from high...
View ArticlePlanting Seeds for the Soul
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When you visit places where great suffering has happened, your soul aches. I felt that a year ago when I was in Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp...
View ArticleLife, Though a Book
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I scanned the entire bookshelf of the library at Birch Coffee, a true New York City gem. The sign clearly said, “Take a Book, Leave a Book, or just...
View ArticleModel Minorities and Expectations
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I was asked to write this for a project someone asked me to contribute to – to help prepare minority youth to deal with racism and ignorance in their...
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Exile vs Traveling
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I’m just about to finish reading Aminatta Forna’s book, The Devil that Danced on the Water. The book traced the author’s memories and search for...
View ArticleWas Grad School Worth It?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I’m sitting at a cafe at Columbia University. An Ivy League school, though the ivy tower seems far less impressive from the inside than the outside....
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