• India and Me, Iniyan. Together with a book review.

    May 15, 2026 - By 

    Every heartbeat is a universe of possibilities Title: Shantaram Author: Gregory David Roberts (often referred to by fans as GDR) Original Publication Date: 2003 Genre: Epic Novel / Semi-autobiographical Fiction / Adventure / Crime Setting: Bombay (Mumbai), India, Timeline: Primarily the 1980s. Last year, I went to India for my friend Nivedita’s wedding. I was very lucky to attend not only an Indian wedding, but the most beautiful Indian wedding. It was my second time in the South Asian country; the first time was some 8 years ago with a backpack, when I was younger, more adventurous and would do anything to squeeze a few…

  • The Moon: Humanity’s Oldest Clock and Newest Frontier

    April 26, 2026 - By 

    Often, it is easy to ignore the world around us and take Earth for granted. Given this reality, for a normal person, what’s out there in space can be so fascinating and at the same time so disproportionate in terms of dimension that it takes one of the following categories: irrelevant against our daily and global struggles, or evocative, making us imagine and almost feel everything we could achieve and become.  Our only natural satellite, the Moon, probably falls in all of the above. In the same way that the first missions to put humans on its surface sparked curiosity…