HeyJaredBest of the Times
"Best of the Times" is a mix of everything I can't help but think about - the messy, the beautiful, the quiet.
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The Instagramification of Ganesh Chaturthi (opens the original)
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I returned to India last year for a small break, but this time after four whole years away, I finally got to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai again. Growing up, some of my beautiful memories revolved around the month of September, the rainy days when Ganpati Bappa comes on Earth from 1.5-11 days and in few cases, an entire month. I grew up seeing friendly neighborhood rivalry between pandals on our opposite lane, drawing and dance competitions and receiving a participation Frooti Packets. Ma
babe, be too much (claim that top 1% in your field) (opens the original)
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i think i was a bit too much since the beginningThere is a particular version of me who was unsure in every assigned space she grew up in, and then came the version of me who became allergic to every one of those designations, developed allergies and died in those spaces. She was accomplished, nimble and successful in her own Bonsai tree-like way. Funnily enough, when i compared myself to a Bonsai Tree a few years ago, i found out that Bonsai Tree like any other tree can grow upwards beyond its
to all the plants growing out of concrete (opens the original)
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Seeing a daisy bloom sprout through the pavement or rocks thrills me. There is something deeply moving about seeing a pop of color contrasting the grey’s and the blacks beneath it. Maybe it is the Contrast that gets me — something so tender declaring taking space somewhere so unwelcoming.Concrete, in its texture emphasizes a sense of finality. It stresses on the finitude of the lived experience of our existence, like an ending. Yet there are baby flowers and grass growing through it Maybe i am b
I tried to be “Normal” (performatively) (opens the original)
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I took a six month long break from writing. It all started in the middle of February, when my visa was got delayed, a familial situation got worse, and i got a new crush. Up until February of this year and maybe entirety of 2025, i was running on pure faith and hope of better days ahead. But hope only takes you so far. This post is less of a conventional article or a blog update, but a secret third thing - an update of everything that’s been, and i guess an essential bridge of what’s too come of
Step into the daylight and let it go (opens the original)
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Three weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I heard Clean for the first time. I was having an ego meltdown over a boy who, by every objective measure, wasn't the love of my life. We weren't even together. He was just someone I spoke to often, someone I had quietly grown attached to. But when that attachment broke, it felt like something inside me had broken tooYoung heartbreak magnifies itself inwards more than outwards. I felt there was something incredibly wrong with me, i lack som
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