I was two and a half years old when we moved to Japan. We didn’t stay there long, just for about six months, and I sure as hell don’t remember much of it. But I am told, in stories repeated time and time again that whenever we as much as…

Well, would you believe me if I told you that it was Aphrodite who won the first ever Beauty Pageant? No? I thought so. Well, let me tell you a story. A story that might have happened, that might not have happened, or might just have happened in an entirely…

We humans have been alive for a long long time. In our current form itself, we have existed for some 300000 years (not counting the time when we were called Erectus, Australopithecus etc). So yes, 300000 years as Homo Sapiens. And some 160000 years as Homo Sapiens Sapiens (I’m trying…

How is it that we can perceive beauty? Are we the only species on earth to be able to do so? Do all animals have a sense of beauty? We humans definitely can. But what about the rest of the animal kingdom? Can they differentiate between the beautiful and the…

Beauty — one concept on earth that has built cities, razed them to the ground, caused wars, and then devoted poems to it. Some say it is a blessing, some consider it a curse (though the reality really lies somewhere in the middle). Some swear by it, some spit on…

Is that I’m not sure if I know how to do anything else apart from writing. And hell! I don’t even know anymore if I know how to write! I’ve been on a bit of a zen trip the last few years. A lot of introspection, a lot of yoga…