Essays & reflections
Some things are clear.
Others, only outlines.
I write what stirs my thoughts — on faith, society and the world we are quietly building. Opinions grounded in a few facts, written from the grey area between black and white.
The essays
All essays
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My God
A debate on whether God exists left me with a different question: what does God mean to me? On faith that evolves rather than being inherited.
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Fascinating world of ‘Battery’
Lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and graphite: where the materials in our phones and EVs come from, and how one country came to control the battery chain.
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Are we really growing well?
A boy dies on a road in Bihar, and the crowd stops to pick up spilled fish. What repeated tragedy does to us, and what we have stopped teaching.
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Kind Men Strong Society
Who is responsible when thirteen-year-old boys harass a girl? A case for treating everyday harassment as a social challenge, not only a legal one.
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The ‘Moon Lit Pages’
Why I finally started writing, and why the name fits: in moonlight, some things are clear, while others are only outlines.
About
Why “moonlit”?
In moonlight, things close by are clear, while those further away appear only as outlines — leaving room for interpretation. That is how I want to write: looking at both sides of the coin, grounded in a few facts, and honest when a thought stays open-ended.
I had always written in my head but never on the page. This blog exists because my daughter and my wife insisted I start.
— Sanjay