
FIND THE MANUSHYA IN YOU
Manushya is the proof and embodiment of life. Everything we are, do, don’t, love and hate starts from it. Thus it's our cognition that defines us and makes us human, i.e मनुष्य • (Sanskrit : manuṣya)
I write about everyday life in extraordinary situations. Urban and real. For today and tomorrow.
I hope you find extraordinariness in these blogs, books, and articles. They are all but about you. It is here that we can together reflect, laugh, react, question, answer, think and express, one tiny emotion at a time. Or a giant opinion. A mediocre question. Or maybe, just maybe, a bright thought.
After all, it is what we were born to do.
The fact that my name stems from Manushya is not an effect but a cause. Therefore I am Manushya. And not just Manu.
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Manu Dhawan
- Feb 26, 2018
- 2 min
Coffee, chaos and cacophony
My 4- day pit stop at New York was unlike any other leisure stay but something I always wanted to do - stay in an apartment alone. It was a cold February and downright scary to begin with. I arrived on a wet, sub-zero morning. My key box outside the apartment won’t open with the code given to me. With numb fingers, trembling legs and chipped nails, I almost gave up, only to realise I was trying to open the wrong box. I so longed for the comfort of an over priced hotel. But ev
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Manu Dhawan
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
Where is the money, Poblado?
Lunch on day 2 of Medellin, Columbia was admittedly gluttonous and a walk up the hill around the city’s wealthiest neighborhood – Poblado, south of Medellin, helped us burn a tenth of what we ate. The remaining sat comfortably on the most uncomfortable places of our bodies. Historically and according to the locals, Poblado is where the city’s wealthy fled to when Escobar’s antics were at their peek and made themselves a paradise away from the drugs, sex and violence. Somethin
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Manu Dhawan
- Jan 29, 2018
- 2 min
Dubai Dairies - 3
Next morning, our hospitable friends make breakfast for us and we conveniently behave like guests, offering only to eat it. Unshaven and un-showered, we head to a beautiful farmer’s market where I buy overpriced but promising honey from Yemen. We sit on the ground sharing coffee and talking about how we miss such a thing in India. Few business plans are made and dumped. The olives are fantastic and we buy a lot of it. A LOT of it. Funny how my stories invariably turn out to b
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Manu Dhawan
- Jan 27, 2018
- 2 min
Dubai Dairies - 2
The flight to Dubai was uneventful. There wasn’t a pretty looking thing sitting next to me so no, this was probably not the good in ‘everything happens for the good’. I ask for a blanket thrice and get it 20 min before we land. Definitely not for the good. Note to self - never fly Jet Airways. But if it’s cheaper than other airlines, then screw that note and bear the crew’s indifference so that I can afford the next missed flight. All things being equal. An empty immigration
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Manu Dhawan
- Aug 8, 2016
- 5 min
The Ego Suite
My friends just came back from an ‘unbelievable’ holiday. They couldn’t stop talking about it and how much fun they had when I met them for dinner. My partly jealous but mostly apathetic ears heard them but barely listened. I however realized, notwithstanding my lack of attention, there was something consistent in their insipid description of what they called wanderlust. All they were talking about was the hotel that they stayed in. How they were ‘looked after’ by the staff,
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Manu Dhawan
- Nov 4, 2015
- 1 min
Triviagra - The Travel Viagra!
Travel has interesting ways to question your opinions. The preconceptions your mind conjured about a city, a country or a skin colour based on an overdose of movies, songs and alien-sounding names were never there. It was just your need to simplify and classify everything into boxes. So you dig further and question opinions which are central to your being. Those questions slowly change you and alters you in an inexplicable manner. Travel isn't great because it's a getaway. Tr
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