My garden
A slower corner of the site — books beyond the field, places that left a mark, speeches that stayed with me, and poems I keep returning to.
// books.shelf
Books outside the field
Man's Search for Meaning
Hard to talk about. Reframed how I think about hardship and purpose.
Meditations
Two thousand years old and still calling me out from the page.
Palpasa Café
A novel I keep coming back to. Reminds me of home.
Sapiens
Opinionated, sweeping, and the kind of book that ruins you for small talk.
// places.web
Places I've visited
A web of places that shaped me. Click a node to jump to its story.
Melbourne, AU
2022 — present · home base
Where I’m studying, building, and slowly figuring myself out. A city that took a while to grow on me, then never let go.
Kathmandu, NP
home · always
Where I grew up. Loud, layered, full of contradictions. The place I think of when I’m asked where I’m from.
Pokhara, NP
family trips · childhood & teens
Phewa Lake, paragliders overhead, the Annapurnas at sunrise. Probably where I first understood what “stillness” means.
// motivation.log
Speeches & words I revisit
It is not the critic who counts… the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
"The Man in the Arena," 1910 · for shipping anything publicly.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
For exam weeks, debugging weeks, and any week ending in "y."
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Stanford commencement, 2005 · the line that made the speech famous, and rightly so.
// poems.collection
Poets & poems
मुनामदन — line that stayed with me
“मानिस ठूलो दिलले हुन्छ, जातले होइन।” “A person is great by their heart, not by their birth.”
— Mahakavi Devkota’s most famous line, in spirit if not exact form.
If—
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son.
— closing lines, abridged
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.
— closing lines