GOAL
📌 My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech:
I wrote it a little early.
https://futurestrong.org/2021/02/05/this-is-my-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech-i-wrote-it-a-little-early-podcast/
📌 My Job As A Teacher:
My goal as a Robotics and coding coach is to empower children to lead their journey of discovering their true potential. My challenge to everyone is that they aspire for their personal best and leave a legacy of their work through their contributions to mankind.
https://futurestrong.org/2022/07/30/my-journey-into-robotics-and-the-influence-of-janusz-korczak-on-my-teaching/
PODCASTS AND VIDEO CONTENT
📌 Productivity And Parenting Podcasts:
All the ideas and strategies to level up your potential to the next stage.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourfuturestrong
📌 Personal YouTube Channel:
Satire. Some days, blinking is the only exercise I get.
https://www.youtube.com/@rachananadellasomayajula
📌 FutureSTRONG YouTube Channel:
Our intentions, our actions, our destiny. Take charge of your life today!
https://www.youtube.com/@OurFutureSTRONG
📌 As Fekta Kapur Roasting Bollywood:
Comic Relief By Fekta Kkkkkapur – ALTBollywood – Not Your Average OTT Content.
Funny Memes And Roasts Of Bollywood Celebrities, Fashion And Movies #LiveBollywoodRoast
https://futurestrong.org/fk
📌 Regenerate With Rachana: YouTube Series:
From an anthropological stand point, our mental, emotional and physical health is a combination of activity and regeneration. Once in a while, turn off all external stimuli and allow for regeneration to happen from within. “Doing” along with “Being” intentionally in the present, will allow for neural, spirtual and emotional regeneration.
https://futurestrong.org/2021/04/26/join-our-youtube-live-every-week-lets-move-forward-together/
POETRY, FICTION AND ESSAYS
📌 My Complete Works
Essays, musings, fiction and poetry:
https://futurestrong.org/2023/09/01/the-complete-list-of-essays-fiction-and-poetry-by-rachana/
📌 The Writer-At-Large Collection:
When life happens to you, you write about it.
https://futurestrong.org/2023/09/20/the-writer-at-large-series-life-is-stranger-than-fiction/
📌 The Short Story {Fiction} Collection:
I was not there.
https://futurestrong.org/stories/
📌 My Poetry:
What else am I here for,
Than to repackage the gifts I’ve been given,
And leave them for others to discover.
https://futurestrong.org/2021/05/31/many-predicaments-in-life-writing-poetry-cannot-be-one/
Listen To Poetry Here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMGTw3nNcCWs7xYA831NrqXvYGxOUNp4L
📌 Want To Travel The Spiritual Path With Me?
The Brahman forms everything that is living or non-living. The wise man knows that all beings are identical with his self, and his self is the self of all beings. ~ Isha Upanishad
https://futurestrong.org/2022/07/24/all-about-hinduism-the-life-and-times-of-a-modern-sanatani-with-ancient-wisdom/
PORTFOLIO
📌 My Portfolio:
Who am I and what do I do?
https://futurestrong.org/rachana-nadella-somayajula/
📌 The Courses I Teach:
Robotics, Game Design, And Coding:
https://futurestrong.org/courses
📌 Favorite Quotes:
Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam | I will either find a way, or make one.
https://futurestrong.org/2017/03/21/thoughts-that-changed-this-life/
📌 All My Links At One Place {This Page}:
Find out what I do.
https://futurestrong.org/my-links
📌 My Book, Podcast And Documentary Reccomendations:
I’m listing a few books, movies and documentaries that I think are worth looking at atleast once in our lifetime.
https://futurestrong.org/reccos
📌 Videos That Haunt Me:
Content that has changed me. For the better.
https://futurestrong.org/project/motivational-and-inspirational-video-recommendations/
MY NOBEL PRIZE SPEECH
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I will either find a way, or make one. Below are all the articles, podcasts and vlogs I have published so far.
Don’t Kiss Me. Yet. – A Love Poem by Rachana
Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - This narrow bed, never meant for two,forces us to fuse,rib to rib,with no air left,only a threat of two bodiesabout to burst into flames. I look up.Your mouth of firehovers an inch above mine.In your eyes I see the curve...
The String of Pearls: Deep Connections And Friendship in the Digital Age
- Picture This Whether you know me or you're a stranger reading this, I want you to picture this. We're standing across from each other and holding hands. We smile at each other and look around us. Once we decide on a direction, we start walking together. That...
Arrested By Your Gravity: A Philosophical Freefall Into Desire {NSFW}
Want To Listen To The Article Instead? Listen to it HERE. - I hope you know by now. I’m crushing hard on you. You are the shiny object I'm trying to get away from, yet there’s nothing else in the world that commands my attention the way you do. And I’m...
At Atlanta’s Bobby Dodd Stadium, The Line Between Faith And Football Is Blurred
I just walked out of a Georgia Tech vs. University of Pittsburgh football game at half time. And it was not looking good for our Yellow Jackets, let me tell ya. Yup, by the time I finished writing this, my son has told me, we've lost. When our 21 year old got us...
Why Darkness Can Be a Gift – A Poem By Rachana {Audio Podcast}
https://youtu.be/kIYM07fLXZM - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - And so you sit up straight,wring your hands.But the weight of silence,makes you wonder,Can darkness be a gift? This silence that’s so violent —can it be a precursor to...
The Invisible Brandons Hiding in Plain Sight – Read By Rachana
https://youtu.be/m64m4MyMcIM - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - A Night To Remember I came home and couldn’t go back to bed without cleaning my kitchen countertop with my hands. As I cleaned, I thought of Brandon and how he was a...
Nostalgia in Ruins: Watching My Childhood Home Fall and My Memories Rise
- My mother visited her (and mine) childhood home for the last time today as it will be demolished starting tomorrow. Nostalgia, as it turns out, will not have a home anymore. Yet, somehow, we'll have to continue living on. Since I've moved to the US 23 plus...
On Living Out Loud – Read By Rachana
https://youtu.be/KHnRhdHrQyE - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - The Actions Of A Free Man Here’s the truth. The things that make us feel alive, laughter that makes our ribs ache, projects that ignite curiosity, connections that fire...
Writer-At-Large: The Invisible Brandons Among Us
Listen to the essay- Yesterday I went to a restaurant with a couple of my friends. For now, let's call the place CF Pangs. We were shown to a booth in the back, and I briefly excused myself to use the restroom. As I came back, I saw our waiter, Brandon,...
Short Story Fiction: Yours Forever – Love and Reform Collide in New Delhi
- “When are you getting married Ky?!” These days, Anu texts him with her question. And her prank-playing boy was never far behind with a retort.. “It’s tomorrow mamma, didn’t you get my Evite?!” This time, the reply was puzzling. “Mom, I am moving to New Delhi...
Why I Really Have 3,452 Friends: The Quiet Ethos of Enduring Friendship
- Fun days are when I meet many brand new strangers and also have a chance to invite some of them to my home. Yesterday was one such day. I was witness to an event where two friends who had never met after 7th grade, but had stayed in touch, met in person after...
Love Made Me Do It – A Poem By Rachana {Audio Podcast}
https://youtu.be/toLd4m-ofRk - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - As you slip and fall, my thoughts ride along with youatop the death train – La Bestia. A smiling young man you were, one heartbeat ago,the next – a limp body in the overgrown,...
The Night I Aired My Dirty Laundry In The Heart Of St. Petersburg
- As my friend, A, and I wandered around downtown St. Petersburg with a diet coke and a hoagie in hand, she stopped to open a dirty looking glass door. She tilted her head motioning me to step in. "What, inside here?" I asked, eyebrows raised and quickly glancing...
I Crashed a Wedding in Seville. Sorry, Curiosity Got the Better of Me.
- I have so much to write about Spain and its aura, but where can I really begin? I’ve already written about an Indian wedding in the heart of Sitges, and a child who was a cutter at the Mirador de San Nicolás in Granada. I also wrote about how Spaniards camp...
ఎన్నో భయాల్లో ఇది ఒకటి – A Love Poem by Rachana
నాలోని భావాల లోతు వినిపించాలంటే,తెలుగు తప్ప నాకు మరో భాష తెలియదు.నిజంగా చెప్పాలంటే, తెలుగులోనే చెప్పాలంటే —ఈ పదాలు, ఈ వరుసలోనే రాయాలి. నీ కోసం శ్వాసల సముద్రం నింపుకుంటా,కానీ నీ తలపు తీరాన్ని తాకగానేనా ఊపిరి ఆవిరైపోతుంది —మిగిలేది నీ జ్ఞాపకాల తడి మాత్రమే. కోపం వస్తోంది...
Babysitting and Brain Rot Stations: What Kids Can Teach Us About Living in the Now
- Last week, one of our funniest Swamijis (Ramakrishnaji) was in town for a Satsang, so I was assigned the task of babysitting kids at a local chapter of the Chinmaya Mission. As I got on with the task of monitoring what I wondered would be a wolf pack of...
When East Met West Under the Georgia Sky: A Fusion Wedding at Serenbe
Two Worlds, One “I Do” What can two families born 8000 miles apart yet raising their kids in the deep south of the US have in common? Their children, who inspite of cultural differences, might go on to make promises to love each other forever. And that's what I...
What Marcus Aurelius and Kahlil Gibran Can Teach Us About Surviving (and Thriving) in the Age of AI
- The Poet In My Memory "In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness, and that longing is in all of you." Kahlil Gibran wrote in his seminal work, The Prophet. The first time I came across the name Gibran was in my childhood when my mom would read...
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