One year as a vegetarian changed how I think about food, compassion and health. My journey through Buddhist values, sattvic food and vegetarian nutrition. Excerpt: After years of trying and failing, I have spent almost one year as a vegetarian. From Han Kang’s The Vegetarian to Buddhist compassion, Bengali food and finding the right plant proteins, this is what the journey has taught me. Last year, on a long flight with ample time and nowhere to go, I read Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. The book that got her the Nobel in literature. It was the sort of book that becomes…

Bullet Journal, from where is all started. When I was younger, my father would always call me impatient. Whenever we had plans I would bombard him with questions about the duration of the commute, the starting time, the hypothesised arrival time and a million variations of time related questions. Although growing up I would think of myself as impatient as well, with time I realised you can be overly punctual without being impatient. I was not overly eager to get on with my plans to the point of irritability; I just wanted to get things done at the time I…