small is beautiful - by Vidushi (Mishti) Sharma
A tribute to the person who taught me that the biggest changes come from the smallest stories—and that community roots are the best way to imagine a new world.
I share monthly-ish stories about people and places across India and the US, and I’d love to write to you. Man is small. Small is beautiful. To seek gigantism is to seek self-destruction. —Sudhakar Ram (“uncle”) in The Connected Age. Dear friends, Hours after Joe Biden gave his victory speech in Delaware, my closest mentor passed away in a hospital suite in Bombay, thousands of miles from the parking lot where I was car camping in the Colorado sand dunes. I woke up to a text from his daughter Sam—call me when you wake up—and I knew that uncle was gone. My year, till then, had been an…
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