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The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty29d ago
My mother does not understand adventure. This is not entirely true. She understands adventure as an abstract category, the way I understand the concept of debt: I accept that it exists, but I would...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty12 Jul 2026
Low ego is not a virtue. It is a better operating system. This is annoying because virtue sounds grand and operating systems sound like something you update while your laptop is dying at 3%.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty21 Jun 2026
Sometimes I worry that I am not a very peaceful person. This is an inconvenient thing to discover about yourself, especially if you have already purchased furniture, developed opinions about...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty17 May 2026
I have lately become suspicious that some of the best moments of my life require me to first become extremely bad at being alive. This is not a heroic statement.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty25 Jan 2026
I keep discovering that time is not a straight line so much as a series of rooms I can still walk into, even when the doors are supposed to be closed.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 Jan 2026
I was doing the thing where I pretend I’m resting by scrolling Instagram, which is a bit like pretending you’re hydrating by licking salt, when I came across a couple who live in a bus.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty9 Nov 2025
There’s a strange kind of peace that comes from admitting you don’t know who you are. Not in the adolescent, identity-crisis way—but in the calm, adult sense of realising that not knowing is...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty19 Oct 2025
I was in the Java islands on another solo trip. One morning I was walking—headphones off, city half-asleep—when this thought hit me: maybe I’ve become too efficient.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty17 Aug 2025
There’s a contradiction I can’t shake. I spend a lot of my free time writing small stories and essays—not because I’m trying to publish them or prove anything, but because I like circling around an...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 May 2025
The other afternoon, as I was having coffee and trying to focus on a very overdue deadline, my brain decided it was the perfect moment to remind me of this random shopkeeper from my childhood.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty4 May 2025
There are days that vanish like socks in a washing machine. You know you had them—you vaguely remember wearing them—but when you go looking, they’re just… gone.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty27 Apr 2025
When I was nine years old, I used to think love was simple. Like, once you found it, you’d never again wonder who would pick you first on the cricket team.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty20 Apr 2025
When I was ten, I was going to be a cricketer. Or a pilot. Or a scientist. Or, in a particularly bold moment, a cricketer-scientist who flew planes on the weekends and solved global warming in his...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty13 Apr 2025
During my recent trip to Sri Lanka (gosh, it’s been three weeks already since I came back), I found out something strange.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty6 Apr 2025
When I was in Sri Lanka recently, I met a girl who’d been travelling for years. Like, plural. Her passport looked like a Jackson Pollock painting of visa stamps.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty30 Mar 2025
I recently got back from a backpacking trip to Sri Lanka. It might have been the best trip of my life. The first few days were perfect.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty16 Feb 2025
Imagine this: you’re at a zoo. But not just any zoo—the Existential Zoo, where the enclosures don’t hold animals but stages of human transformation.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty2 Feb 2025
Last weekend, I was at Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj with a friend, the world’s biggest religious gathering.
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