I wrote this on how much I love Berlin's forests. Please check out the site for stories of other Asian people's fave places in Berlin. It's such a lovely project. https://t.co/GyWC0uRVov
My new Substack! The first post drops next Thursday but my archive is already up there. Expect long form video, personal and in-depth essays, a forum for discussion, and regular lives. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/YxyAcEpwtU
Social media creates a situation where we know almost everything that's happening in almost every area of the world. We're exposed to suffering, injustice, and trauma almost every time we open our apps.
If you have an authoritarian Indian relative, translate their words into German and shout back at them. It's terrifying, but makes everything much clearer.
“The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought. There is no idea that does not carry in itself its possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.”
— Proust, The Fugitive