Akshat Pathak
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Sixteen years ago today, when I was sixteen years old, I lost my dad to suicide. Tomorrow will mark the first day of my life where I’ve lived longer without my dad than I did with him. Half a lifetime later I am still figuring out how to grieve.
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Steady efforts with consistency and everything that Lamar says in “Man at the Garden”
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I have to tell you,
there are times
when the sun strikes me
like a gong,
and I remember everything,
even your ears.
Dorothea Grossman
Picture - unknown
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To the Japanese mind, frogs are fascinating creatures as they seem to embody Zen: they can sit in utmost serenity with eyes closed & suddenly spring into action as if they've become enlightened as Basho's most famous haiku says:
The old pond-
a frog jumps in,
sound of water
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Letting go is absolutely necessary but in this case it is very hard
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci
Japanese high school teacher Hirotaka Hamasaki draws amazing blackboard art for his students, then erases it to show the beauty of letting go.
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Minotaur de Andrey Zvyagintsev. Drama francés en la que el director ruso explora el colapso emocional y moral de un hombre de negocios bajo la presión de crisis personales y políticas. #Cannes2026
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That the person who renamed Bombay to Mumbai kept his anglicized surname after an English novelist intact. Thackeray.
Mumbai Heritage@mumbaiheritage
Hit me with the craziest Mumbai history facts you know.
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On April 14-1944
A jeweler was sitting in his office in Jhaveri Bazaar when a bar of solid gold crashed through the roof and arrived in front of him. A plate of iron landed on a horse and neatly decapitated the animal. Stray limbs and body parts were blown all over the docks
Mumbai Heritage@mumbaiheritage
Hit me with the craziest Mumbai history facts you know.
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Robert Sapolsky on how to strengthen your frontal cortex the same way you strengthen a muscle: practice resisting temptation repeatedly until willpower becomes effortless.
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Credit to Maximum city:Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
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