Arijit's Special Newsletter

Ramblings & essays

Meaning

Dear L, In the Coen brother’s movie “A Serious Man” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serious_Man], there’s a scene where a Rabbi talks about how Hashem talks to people in subtle and interesting ways, for example through a man's teeth. Thanks to Coen brother’…

Aloneness

Dear L, Once for a couple of years, I worked from home as a consultant with a team in San Francisco while living in India. I was getting off work after midnight, every night. Usually, after work I would fire up my playstation; The world would be dark and sleeping.…

Mortality

> “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” - Roy Batty…

Cobwebs

I was awake, but my eyes didn’t want to open, almost as if cobwebs were holding my eyelids together. I wanted to roll back into the comfort of senselessness, I wanted to roam inside random dreams that were wacky enough to almost make me laugh.…

Depth

Dear L, I find depth to be a weird idea, given it’s so subjective and divisive. For someone like me, “The Big Lebowski” is a film about a brilliant characters being incredibly content with where he is. The Hollywood flick “Constantine”, for me is a character study of a…