Figuring

Time, Memory and the Art of Spilling Milk

On reading Karl Ove Knausgaard's Min Kamp (My Struggle)

Aug 3 • Abheet Srivastav

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May 2025

May 2023

#11 Comments on Culture

Why I feel the Vice article on Letting GenZ make reels in art museums is flawed.

May 8, 2023 • Abheet Srivastav

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August 2022

#10 The Universal Sorrow of Indecision

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way.

Aug 21, 2022 • Abheet Srivastav

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There Should be Hope, A Return to Writing

There are little moments you’ll inhabit hope, in times of grief. And then just like grief, you will carry it in its perpetuity through nostalgia. You…

Aug 13, 2022 • Abheet Srivastav

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March 2022

#9 On Smoking Cigarettes

The tired cliché of misery and insubordination, of a lonely protagonist in some darkened recesses of a balcony or a room, smoking cigarettes has always…

Mar 13, 2022 • Abheet Srivastav

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January 2022

#2 Thoughts and Content

A lot of Kafka, Essays and a Book Review

Jan 15, 2022 • Abheet Srivastav

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#8 Mourning as a Spatial Narrative

“What I find utterly terrifying is mourning’s discontinuous character.” -Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary

Jan 10, 2022 • Abheet Srivastav

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November 2021

Upfront #1: The Idealism of Youth

Upfront is a new series where I go candid.

Nov 8, 2021 • Abheet Srivastav

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October 2021

#7 On Empathy

The afternoon forecast shows another bright hot day.

Oct 17, 2021 • Abheet Srivastav

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September 2021

#6 Catalogue of Confusion

It is listening to two writers talk on the internet.

Sep 26, 2021 • Abheet Srivastav

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#5 On Conversations, Language and Feeling Understood

When we hear someone talking about their experience, we say that we understand. What is this feeling of understanding? What is the feeling of being…

Sep 12, 2021 • Abheet Srivastav

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