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Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

As we finished taking all of my boxes up to my dorm room, I hugged my parent’s goodbye as I began a new chapter in my life…
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Mauktik Dave
A Letter to My Child

A Letter to My Child

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Bindi Patel
How a Lotus Led Me onto a Path of Fulfillment

How a Lotus Led Me onto a Path of Fulfillment

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Eva Patel
Because You Deserve Peace

Because You Deserve Peace

“Forgive Others Not Because They Deserve Forgiveness But Because You Deserve Peace.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
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Mauktik Dave
Wilted Flowers, Revived

Wilted Flowers, Revived

A couple of weeks ago, one of the kindergarten students in my class brought me a sunflower from her garden. I put it in a water-filled vase…
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Preetal Makan
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A Mark of Growth

A Mark of Growth

At the Hindu temple where I go to worship, called a mandir, it is commonplace to see men have an orange colored “U” shaped mark with a red…
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Param Shanti
My Guru’s Words

My Guru’s Words

When it comes to managing our day-to-day interactions with one another, most of us can often be described as complicated. We all have…
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Param Shanti
Unclaimed Baggage

Unclaimed Baggage

A sea of black, blue, and gray lay before me. Peppered throughout were pops of color — specks of orange, red, and green. I was not at a…
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Kashyap Patel
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Crucibles for Change

Crucibles for Change

Our pandemic-induced reflections on time, distance, and health have been interrupted in the past few months by questions of another…
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Param Shanti
The Parenting Paradox

The Parenting Paradox

It’s hard to believe that I have been a parent for 23 years. Yet, it feels like only yesterday I was a kid myself. I envied all the people…
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knowingbliss
Bharatanatyam — Devotional Dance

Bharatanatyam — Devotional Dance

2019 was the year that I had waited to experience for so long! College campus visits and senior year events were just around the corner…
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Mahima Dave
Put Yourself First

Put Yourself First

Think about it: our whole inner world, for the entirety of our existence, is nothing but a continuous conversation with ourselves.
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Roma Gujarathi
Limited Perceptions

Limited Perceptions

Overcoming limitations of our perceptions in order to explore our greatest potential
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Bhavisha Doshi
How I Studied 👨‍🎓 for the Scripps National Spelling Bee 🐝

How I Studied 👨‍🎓 for the Scripps National Spelling Bee 🐝

Hi, my name is Atman and I’m a 5th grader, and I am the worst speller. It gets so bad that sometimes I can’t even tell which word I was…
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Atman Patel
Got Stress?

Got Stress?

Often, I had asked myself why peace of mind seemed so elusive. There were times when life just seemed not that easy. Sometimes it felt like…
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Param Shanti
The Secret to Happiness

The Secret to Happiness

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. It happens to the best of us.
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Param Shanti
Spirit of Gratitude in Thanksgiving: Then and Now

Spirit of Gratitude in Thanksgiving: Then and Now

It’s been 365 days or more precisely 525,600 minutes since our last collective moment of pause and expression of gratitude observed…
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Param Shanti
Adjusting the Light

Adjusting the Light

Wash and sanitize my hands, put my gown on, get close to the patient, verify the patient, do a timeout, adjust the light. Wash and sanitize…
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Param Shanti
The Rangoli of Life

The Rangoli of Life

The wick of the diyas drenched in ghee, Cast a wondrous light, of hope and glee. The kitchen stirred with busied steps Lest the fear of any…
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Param Shanti
Positive Attitude for a Healthy Mind

Positive Attitude for a Healthy Mind

I once heard someone say, “a healthy mind is more important than a healthy body.” At first, I didn’t believe that. A healthy body is of…
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Param Shanti
Slow is smooth, Smooth is fast

Slow is smooth, Smooth is fast

It is an irony of our modern times that while technology is continually invented to save us time, we use that time to do more and more…
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Param Shanti
Proximity in Distance

Proximity in Distance

March 11th, 2020:    It was a day that sparked the catalysis of change. As marked by the World Health Organization, the start of a global…
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Param Shanti
Have You Heard?

Have You Heard?

Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British writer, put it nicely, “Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
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Param Shanti
Me Time

Me Time

Break from the grind to clear your mind
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Param Shanti
Thaw and Blossom

Thaw and Blossom

More and more, we are speaking of the pandemic in the past tense. Humanity has come together and reanimated like a bear awakening from a…
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Param Shanti
My Mandir My Home

My Mandir My Home

It is not lost on any of the world’s seven billion people that the past year and a half has likely been the most challenging period of…
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Param Shanti
Values My Father Instilled Within Me

Values My Father Instilled Within Me

Growing up, I did not have an understanding of what sacrifice meant. After all, as a child, my life in India was idyllic. I attended the…
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Param Shanti
Eternal Vaccine

Eternal Vaccine

On January 6, 2021, I got vaccinated against Covid-19. Humbled that I qualified so early on, I was eager to get this opportunity to protect…
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Param Shanti
Taking My First Green Step

Taking My First Green Step

Recess was my favorite time of the day as a child- the warm air, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the dirt on my scraped knees that I didn’t…
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Param Shanti
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