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Environmental Sustainability

A yoga studio where Kaya teaches a group of foreigners. The walls are multi-colored, the floor is grass turf, and sunlight streams in through the open-air back wall.

Yoga Wasn’t Meant to Save the West

Environmental Sustainability, Food, Social Justice, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickApril 20, 2025Leave a comment

Yoga is often marketed as “India’s gift to the West.” This rhetoric masks a troubling truth – that yoga is an outgrowth of uniquely South Asian problems.

A Goddess idol in front of the Ganges river

Sacred Ruins in the Making

Environmental Sustainability, Social Justice, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickNovember 15, 20241 Comment

The locals think that Rishikesh is growing TOO fast.

Tourists in Tiger Territory

Environmental Sustainability, Social Justice, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickMay 29, 2024Leave a comment

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

Ten Things I’ve Learned from Mycelium

Environmental Sustainability, Food, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickSeptember 1, 2023Leave a comment

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

The Truth About Birthright Israel- Part Two

Environmental Sustainability, Food, Social Justice, TravelBy Kaya MallickApril 19, 20232 Comments

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

Let the Good Times Roll

Arts & Theater, Environmental Sustainability, Food, Travel, UncategorizedBy Kaya MallickSeptember 28, 2022Leave a comment

Did you know that there are no open container laws in New Orleans?

11 Quirks of Seattle

Environmental Sustainability, Fitness, Food, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickAugust 27, 2022Leave a comment

I recently moved to Seattle and it has taken every single one of my feeble brain cells to figure out this city.

Country Roads

Environmental Sustainability, Food, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickFebruary 2, 20221 Comment

I was a bit wary of venturing into the American South alone…

Magical Midwest

Arts & Theater, Environmental Sustainability, Fitness, Food, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickNovember 24, 20211 Comment

I’ve been roadtripping 🙂

The Microbiome of Mars

Environmental Sustainability, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickJuly 21, 2021Leave a comment

I recently discovered that I live very close to Mars.

© Kaya T Mallick
2025
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