Archive - making meaning from feelings

your job does not love you

and that's more than fine

Jul 6 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

June 2025

answering a feeling of urgency

what is the most urgent, fruitful, and challenging intellectual work I can take on as a writer?

Jun 28 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

suicidal intelligence

my current stance on using AI to create

Jun 19 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

I write my nieces a heartfelt letter

play as much as you can, labor from a place of love, and do not be afraid of death

Jun 11 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

failing and sailing towards my dream

a vivid unraveling of what I embodied as a child and a reconstruction of who I am as an adult

Jun 6 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

May 2025

the Asian compulsion

how the Asian mind (or perhaps just this Asian mind) works

May 31 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

a conversation on design and responsibility with Sir Jony Ive

If I am anxious, you can see the anxiety in what I design, he said ruefully. I feel similarly about my writing.

May 13 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

April 2025

March 2025

how I found feminism in Hindu tradition

feminism, like water, finds and fills the cracks in a foundation

Mar 25 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

the warmth of India

I contemplate, with grave seriousness, how to protect the Indian paradigm

Mar 19 •

Aishwarya Vardhana

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