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<description>An intersection to share our unique experiences as immigrants.</description>
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<title>Love in the Time of Brutalism</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>It felt like a living room jam session with everyone harmonizing to the words of love, perseverance and acceptance. This was a different world than outside.</description>
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<title>The Hill- Rohit Shakya: Serene sounds of the Himal</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>In addition to being a superb fusion of modern and traditional sounds, The Hill’s minimalistic arrangement lets us resonate with it in our own personal way, which is the ultimate power of music. My only issue with this piece is that it ends too soon.</description>
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<title>A Leap of Faith: A Conversation with Bivek</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>This is where I took a leap of faith and within five minutes of that call, I resigned from Walmart, immediately called my friend who was living in the Bay Area at that time, and asked him if I could move in with him there in a couple of days, and so I did, thanks to him.</description>
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<title>Saving An Atheist Soul</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>This immigration of belief is not really much different than moving across land borders.</description>
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<title>Mukti and Revival: The AI edition</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>We can sit around fire and enjoy our moments of warmth, but we can’t survive an inferno that will burn us to death.</description>
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<title>The Golden Handcuffs: An Evolutionary Dead End</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>I studied evolutionary biology in graduate school. I don&#x27;t really get to use it for my livelihood, but I learned an important philosophy from that degree that eventually shaped my current worldview.</description>
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<title>Talking Politics with Friends: A Step-by-step Guide</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>I don’t know the specific number of friends, let alone families, split by recent election results but my guess is it’s disturbingly large. People who shared upbringings and came of age together, through thick and thin, are torn apart by a red cap or lawn sign. It need not be this way.</description>
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<title>Ode to the Festivals</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>Nothing warms our hearts like seeing lights draped around the house or a tree. I believe seeing sparkly lights in the darkness makes us happier and cheerful. It must be because our ancestors sat around at night and observed stars in the crispy night sky for thousands of years.</description>
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<title>Parenting and the Art of Bench Press</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>At the risk of sounding like a complete meathead, I see a lot of similarities in parenting in general and bench pressing.</description>
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<title>Horlicks Cookies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description>I prefer to have these cookies with coffee as it counters the bitterness of the coffee but also accentuates the flavor of Horlicks. Enjoy the trip down the Nostalgia Boulevard with this classic flavor.</description>
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