Worldview
On Certainty and Faith
A friend's exclusive faith claim, and the leap from personal certainty to a verdict on everyone else's.
“The honest position is to hold them in the same regard, not to fake a certainty I have not earned.”
Why It’s Called Claude and I?
Every essay here started as a feeling I couldn’t wrestle onto a page alone, so I talked it through with Claude instead, sentence by sentence, until the screen finally said what I meant. Turns out that’s oddly good therapy: nothing on this site got smaller by being written about, just clearer, and clearer was the whole point.
So the name is just an honest receipt. The memories, the opinions, the mistakes are mine. The company while I sorted them out was Claude’s. I write under a pen name because honesty is easier when nobody knows it’s you.
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Sport
The First Time Is the Only Time
On being a Bangladesh cricket fan, and the one kind of joy you only get to feel once.
“You hope less because hope, historically, has been the thing right before the collapse.”
Memory
Same Beach, Different Movie
A sunset, a plate of biriyani, and the strange math of returning to a place you used to know.
“The version of a place you're carrying around in your head is really just a photograph of one particular Saturday.”
Sport
The Joy and Sadness of Supporting Brazil
Thirty-six years, one country that was never mine, and a habit I can't seem to break.
“It's tribal identity borrowing a jersey it has no real claim to, and it's proof that the ugliest thing about fandom was never losing.”
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Cricket and football, and the specific kind of hope that gets punished for it.
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Film and music, and the arguments they start.
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Places that changed while you weren't looking.
Worldview
Faith and politics, and what certainty does once you have it.