TWO ON TRAIL
The tale of two individuals on a journey
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Category: Life Lessons
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(This article was published in the CPRC SETAC Newsletter, Spring 2021.) 1) How many years have you spent in the US as an international student? I came to the US in the Fall of 2017. I was originally offered a Ph.D. position at the Texas A&M University. I took courses and worked at the Texas…
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The Coronavirus global pandemic hit the world at the start of the year 2020. I was in my second year of PhD and after the one year of rigorous classes and research, I could not help but appreciate the idea of the university shutting down for a while and all for a noble cause; to…
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As a real example of what becoming more worldly wise and responsible is going to be like, the month of my thirtieth birthday was loaded with a bunch of difficult news from home. My grandmother had to be hospitalized with a sudden event of high blood pressure. (My father’s parents came to stay with us…
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Disclaimer: This article is long. I will totally empathize with you if you feel it got too tedious to read it till the last word and hence will interrupt the following paragraphs with some pictures taken over the stay-in-home period in order to keep you entertained. A couple of weeks ago, some time in March,…
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My mother, like most mothers of people my age, is a woman in her mid fifties. Like most Indian mothers, she has always been very protective of me. Often in my mid teens, I mistook her acute level of protectiveness for a strong feeling of possessiveness and extra control on my life. Initially, I revolted,…
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Since I have moved to the US and gradually matured, the conversations between me and my parents have evolved in their own way. Often times, my mother would ask me, “When are you finishing up and coming back home?” I would never have an answer to please her. And when I would ask her “Why…
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I stepped out of his cab in front of the house Aniruddha used to live in then, shut the door, bent down to look at his face across the window and specifically remember to have said, “Take care”. I genuinely meant that when I said that, I recollect. After a while we came in and…
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We haven’t said much about our cab rides in a while. Well, as I said in my previous post, getting into a meaningful conversation needs that spark, that openness from both ends and sometimes everything doesn’t come into place together. Guess what! After quite some time searching for that spark, today I found it. We…
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Dreams and desires – aren’t they fascinating beings? Don’t they form the grand scheme of things in our survival? What are our lives if not just a search for the direction to guide us towards them? Someone once told me, “Original ideas are pretty hard to come by.” Well, there are times when I ponder and…