Essays & Think Pieces - The Woke Yogi

For Bengalis, Durga Puja is the climax of the year. But perhaps what we need now is not reverence for the Goddess, but unbridled fear.

Where do we go from here? My thoughts and perspectives on Sanskrit in modern yoga.

Part 7 of Sounding Off: Defiance to Adversity, Democracy, Diversity

Part 6 of Sounding Off: Cultural Hybrids, Orientalists, Priests; the West, the Rest, and the “Exotic East”

Part 5 of Sounding Off: Caste, Class, and Curators of Culture

Part 4 of Sounding Off: Doctrines of Discipline under Consumer Capitalism.

Part 3 of Sounding Off: Mantra, Tantra, Translation, Transformation

Part 2 of Sounding Off: Legendary Lineages vs. Living Languages.

Part 1 of Sounding Off: Sanskrit scripture, sacred sound, & spiritual power in speech aloud.

We may have been safe from the jungle, but the jungle was not safe from us.

It was my very first yoga class, and I was there because I aspired to touch my toes.

I am a massive mycophile—that is, I’m obsessed with mushrooms!

Is a free ten-day trip all it takes for young people to overlook human rights violations?

At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, my sister and I hosted stay-at-home music festivals for ourselves.

I recently discovered that I live very close to Mars.