Author: Ashish Singh
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I Study Digital Addiction. Then I Became Addicted.
Something happened in early 2020 that made me step back from everything digital. Maybe it was the sudden shift to online everything, or maybe I just got tired of the noise. Whatever it was, I deleted my social media accounts and stayed away for almost two years. Not just Instagram—I barely even answered phone calls.
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Life Lessons from Axon Pathfinding
It was winter 2024. I was a few months into my PhD at the National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon, still finding my footing in the academic world. Between long hours in the course-work classes, lab rotations and evenings spent poring over research papers, I found moments of unexpected clarity in the most ordinary places—like that
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The Light, the Wound, and the Story We Tell Ourselves
They say, “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Rumi’s words echo through time, quoted endlessly, admired deeply. But have you ever paused to ask—why? Why the wound? Why not strength, or joy, or wholeness? And if it were true, wouldn’t suffering always make us wiser? Yet, it doesn’t—some wounds close over,
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The Goodness Trap
“बेहिसी शर्त है जीने के लिए और हमको एहसास की बीमारी है “ John Elia John Elia’s words have a way of cutting through the noise, don’t they? They make me wonder: What does it mean to live with this “disease of feeling”? To carry the weight of the world’s pain, not just as an
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What We Feel ?
This time, it’s just a spontaneous poetic reflection on Leo Tolstoy’s timeless question: Is it really possible to express what we feel?