Collections of random thoughts of a naive, lost, and wistful younger self — I guess I’d like to think of myself as being a wallflower, just like Charlie in that book The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Whenever Iʼm not talking, Iʼm thinking, reflecting. I mostly think about my studies — about economics and the efficiency of how the world moves goods and…

Collections of random thoughts of a naive, lost, and wistful younger self — I was re-reading something I wrote earlier about simplicity and 90ʼs cartoons. I know the quality of graphics today has improved tenfold, but is it weird that I prefer the simpler drawings from the old days? Like Hey Arnold! and Doug. …

My college application essay on my baby sister, Trisha It was on May 2nd, 2004, at 11:32 a.m. when an angel descended into Room 102 of the Lutheran Hospital. Waiting patiently as I could in the room next door, questions began to race through my mind. What would she look…

A reflection on the Nobel-winning economist’s collection of essays and the everlasting questions they leave us — India’s Argumentative Tradition: Along the Path of Reason? The first volume, Voice and Heterodoxy, begins with an explanation of the title — “the Argumentative Indian” being a symbolic figure of India’s longstanding tradition of discourse and debate. Sen pridefully exclaims that India’s argumentative history long precedes her status as a postcolonial democracy.

Late last year, I shared a harrowing account of my visit to the West Bank in January 2020, only a few months before the Covid-19 pandemic devastatingly struck the U.S. …

Critical lessons from MLK’s 1964 book that remain relevant in the fight for civil and human rights today.

A non-definitive playlist of songs speaking truth to power — Although Donald Trump has left office, it is imperative that we the people unite to fight the legacy of Trumpism that lives on — an amalgam of Nazi-like fascism, white supremacy, violent extremism, and all of the worst ‘isms’ imaginable. History has warned us that our minimization and mockery of…

In a single day alone, laborers across India sent a powerful message to the workers of the world: Unite. Will Americans follow their lead? As the world remains deep in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the working class has suffered tremendous blows from a global economic system that has…

A while ago, I heard a voice in a church I stumbled upon as I was walking about — calling out in song, as if it was longing for me to come inside. I’d forgotten the immediate transformation I experience when I’m in church, the internal peace that resurfaces throughout…