[I wrote this in high school for a competition organized by Peaceworks, Seagull Publishers, Kolkata, that invited stories for peace from Indian and Pakistani students. My story was selected and included in the published book 'Stories for Peace', which it would be impossible to find anywhere now (this is the only place I see any …
Author: Neel
Physics/Neuroscience PhD. I like travelling and rock-climbing.
Lily-pad in giant endless ocean under a flat sky
I feel scared thinking of myself afloat on a lily-pad in a giant endless ocean, under a flat sky. There is no home. Float, float, float. There is nobody else. Adrift. It doesn't mean anything. Even my personal history keeps detaching from me, time slips away through my machinations. Who am I? What is this? …
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Crypto gets its value from magic
When I got into crypto and started buying some, I decided that I should think about where its value really comes from. I realized soon that much of what sets the value is really just speculation: people buying and selling because they think its value is something, and that’s what actually ends up deciding much …
Darkness descends
Darkness descends on me like a great bird's wings misty hedges, wet back alley float by How long will I be here filled with concrete counting my breath Time is ticking ticking ticking will it be future when it ends will anyone have waited for me
All at once
The universe is arriving all at once. No refuge where its infinite detail does not bloom to fill all available surface Not a moment’s escape from its unfolding of enormous sky, glass, moving bodies that have nothing to do with me. No respite today from turmoil boiling up from a center that has never known …
One Life 