Personal Blog ✍️
These pieces are the culmination of years of reading and life experience, where scattered thoughts in my notebook slowly began to form something far more cohesive than I intended: a complete worldview. The essays speak to each other, the piece on Determinism speaks directly to the critique of the Education System, and the insights drawn from historical figures inform the contemporary political analysis. They simply needed to be bound together to tell the full story of my perspective.
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love” – Leo Tolstoy I feel a deep sense of frustration with what is commonly called “religion.” The problem of evil and the overwhelming scale of human suffering make it difficult for me to believe in the existence of a benevolent creator. … Read more
“While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends” – Aristotle As a secular humanist, I often witness the deep, persistent backlash from the political right, a conflict fueled primarily by profound, seemingly endless misunderstanding. Yet, I don’t assign blame easily. In fact, we owe a debt of gratitude to many … Read more
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in” – Abraham Lincoln Today’s heavily polarized political climate deeply pains me. It has become so toxic that rationalism … Read more
“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.” – J. Krishnamurti I’ve never blamed the Indian education system entirely. What troubles me more is the mindset of those who live within it, parents, teachers, and students. In the last few decades, our collective obsession with success has turned education into … Read more
“For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl” – Anne Frank My love for books is fairly recent, but my … Read more