Musings of The Young Monk

My experiences in life sprinkled with humor and a unique genre of philosophy

The Joke is on YOU!

I don’t really know why I started writing this post. It was either my disgust with the juvenile behavior of supposed adults; or it could have been the pent-up nausea caused by excessive regurgitation of the same content everywhere. Either ways, a saturation point had been reached. What tipped the scale was perhaps the discovery Read more about The Joke is on YOU![…]

How Fat are you?

I have a problem with the way FAT is looked down upon these days. It seems that most people have a negative connotation and try to adopt whatever means necessary to avoid its build up. But have you ever wondered that fat is a by-product of one’s own miscalculations, wrong acts and behaviour? And I Read more about How Fat are you?[…]

Between Paradigms – An Introvert vs. The World

My birthday went by a couple of weeks back. As is customary these days, several acquaintances pressed a button on Facebook for their mandatory ritualistic post stating that I should “have a great one”. Some were lazier than others and simply wrote ‘HBD” (seriously, you can’t even type in full now?). After scrolling through 80+ Read more about Between Paradigms – An Introvert vs. The World[…]

The 2%

Bombay winter is ‘my’ type of weather. I have never been a fan of extreme numbers on the scale, but rather feel most at home between 15-30 degrees, with a little rain thrown in occasionally to accompany my malt-laden nights. I was thus naturally excited to land that evening in the city that I used Read more about The 2%[…]

Relationship status: It’s complicated

“What is your relationship with God?” This is one question that I’ve asked people in different cities and it has always managed to elicit a universally intriguing glance. Some pretend to be cool and casual about it – almost bordering on sounding atheist. Most others are scared to even talk of a ‘relationship with God’, Read more about Relationship status: It’s complicated[…]