This is a reflection I wrote on a 2016 field visit to Myanmar I took when I worked on a maternal & child health tech deployment @ Dimagi, Inc. Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I walked into the cluttered and austere office of Dr. Myint Myint Than, the Director…

I wrote this piece for a graduate school course on “Revolutionary Technologies” @ Cornell Tech. “Feminism has unmasked maleness as a form of power that is both omnipotent and nonexistent, an unreal thing with very real consequences.” Catharine MacKinnon’s piece “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State” is a biting critique…

There are typically one of two things that come to mind when you hear the word split — it’s either that thriller movie about the man with 26 personalities, or a delicious and decadent sweet treat composed of one banana split down the middle and blanketed with hot fudge, ice…

10 days & 100+ hours of silent meditation later, I’ve completed my first Vipassana course. The experience was one of the most challenging I’ve ever faced in life. There were many moments where I wanted to scream, pull my hair out, and throat punch everyone around me. I questioned my…

If confined, it can suffocate. It signals news, creation, destruction, danger, distress, transformation. It speaks: “Something’s happening.” “Pay attention.” Whatever the meaning, when I smell smoke, it smells like India. Most of my memories of my very first visit to Kerala, the southern state of India on the western Malabar…

“Irasshaimase!” the waiter shouted, cheeks flushed and ruddy, his spectacles sliding down the bridge of his nose. …