INDRAJIT—It’s strange, what pains. I can write about all the death and destruction in the world and feel one level of bad, but what really hurt was losing something so small and personal, which wasn’t really lost at all. I write about the wide world but my world is actually very small. I rarely leave my house, let alone my spot on the couch. The only thing I’d move my laptop for was that cat, and I missed him terribly when he was gone. I was walking around like my cat had died (which he could’ve) and was unable to enjoy anything. It’s only now that he’s come back that I feel anything close to normal.
Indrajit Samarajiva
Indrajit Samarajiva
My name is Indrajit Samarajiva and I'm a writer. People call me Indrajit, Indi, Jit, or sometimes even Indica. Most people call me Indi. I was born in 1982 in Vancouver, Canada where my parents were doing their PhDs. I lived in Sri Lanka briefly before moving to Upper Arlington, Ohio, where I grew up (K-12). I studied Cognitive Science at McGill University in Montreal. I started blogging there and have been doing so for over 20 years now. As an adult I moved back to Sri Lanka where I've lived since. Now I write almost everyday, which was my dream since first grade. I'm 40 years old now and have a wife, two kids, and a very naughty dog.
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INDRAJIT—So much of what I am—my fundamental tender-heartedness—comes from my grandparents. The political beliefs in my family are wildly different (and seem to skip generations) but the practical motivation is the same. Politics is an adaptation to different material realities, but the spiritual chain is, I think, unbroken. I must say that I’m worse than my grandparents—I have much more but I don’t do that much—but I want to be more like Achchi, I do. God knows we had less of her for years and now we have none at all.
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INDRAJIT—The night of the long whines that followed the debate was about how Biden looked, and not what he’s been doing in plain sight for nine months now, which is committing genocide most foul. As Caitlin Johnstone said, the scariest thing is not the Biden is not fit to run for President, but that he is President right now.
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INDRAJIT—That’s the absolute mindfuck of this moment. For kids born this century it’s pretty obvious that America is evil, but people that remember the 90s, we remember America being the good guys. Very few of us were Noam Chomsky (shout out to the OG haters), we were just normal chumps. I was. Just a fish flopping around in the historical stream of consciousness, not realizing that I was swimming in blood.
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INDRAJIT—While ‘Israel’ has been pre-occupied with a genocide in the south, they have lost the north. As I discussed earlier, Hezbollah has been systematically eye-poking the cyclops and, now, half the time the sirens don’t even go off. Hezbollah can fire at will and the Iron Dome is broken. ‘Israel’s’ border points have been dismantled and they’re completely open to ground invasion. ‘Israel’s’ problems compound every day the attrition goes on, and it’s been nine months of daily attacks now.