https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://ankitmhatre.in/tags/personal-essay/Recent content in Personal-Essay on Ankit Mhatrehttps://ankitmhatre.in/tags/personal-essay/https://source.unsplash.com/collection/983219/2000x13221440After Dark 9.2.2 (Hugo 0.134.0)en-USCopyright © Ankit Mhatre. Licensed under CC-BY-ND-4.0.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:27:32 UThttps://ankitmhatre.in/2026/03/01/should-you-go-even-when-everything-says-you-should/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTAnkithttps://ankitmhatre.in/2026/03/01/should-you-go-even-when-everything-says-you-should/A man on a layover in Dubai, flying back to Mumbai from New York, found himself talking to an aunty a few hours before the airspace shut down. Strangers in transit talk differently — no context, no stakes, just two people passing time before a flight. She was headed home too, after a couple of months with her elder son in the US. He’d gone over in 2014, finished his master’s in a year and a half, and landed a job at Amazon — the kind of story families repeat at weddings. Except there was a second half she hadn’t mentioned at first — he’d recently been laid off.Musings