What a shitty news week. And by week I mean decades long slide into authoritarianism in every country I& #39;ve had anything to do with.

I keep asking myself why I feel so awful and the answer is that it& #39;s not the hangover, it& #39;s THAT grief.

It really doesn& #39;t help to have opposition leaders who 1) aren& #39;t yet truly hurt by the slide and 2) as a result are willing to slide further to gain some kind of foothold from which to launch their amaaaaazing comeback or whatever.

I& #39;ve been trying to differentiate the grief I& #39;m feeling between personal and global and thinking of it in terms of அகம் (akam) and புறம் (puram) has been sort of helpful. https://adakshinamurthy.wordpress.com/introduction-to-sangam-literature/">https://adakshinamurthy.wordpress.com/introduct...