Amulya's Web Homepage 2026-01-29T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/ Amulya Aradhyula 2026-01-29T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/Mainstays/ <ol> <li>kichidi</li> <li>beans</li> <li>la palma tortillas</li> <li>martin boxes</li> <li>tony chocolonely, the orange one</li> <li>perugu</li> <li><a href="https://www.dinneralovestory.com/shalane-flanagans-superhero-muffins/">these muffins</a></li> <li>if granola no. 5 + smitten kitchen granola bars had a baby</li> </ol> 2026-01-29T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/FamilyRules/ <ol> <li>don't eat rocks</li> <li>only climb up what you can climb down</li> </ol> 2026-01-29T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2026-01-25/ <p>I have read more Drarry fanfiction than I have read anything else, really. I spent so much time with those characters and in the worlds the authors of these fanworks built out. I don't read very much fanfic these days but I've been left with the question of what mark all that reading left on me. I think it's easier to point out how a traditionally published book impacted you, if only because it's much less shameful to talk about with real people. But, again, I cannot emphasize just how much of this content I have taken it. I think it's fully reshaped my brain, I just don't quite know how. I started thinking about thie when I was listening to this Cannonball episode about artists' last albums and how sometimes you think you're going to die, and then you don't, and then you have to go on with the business of living. I think there was a lot of that in the fanfic I read. I don't know why it scratched such an itch, but it did. What it means to believe something terrible and then change and atone. That the places we live have some type of sentience. Idk man.</p> 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2026-01-15/ <p>Maya found a piece of dryer lint and domesticated it. Her name is Donavan Fluff, she is Maya’s pet (never mind Kulfi, the actual dog she lives with). She kept losing it, because it is a piece of dryer lint, and we had to keep spotting it on our intricately patterned rug. Finally, I found her an old apothecary jar and now that is where Donavan Fluff lives, but by now her name is Elena of Avalor Fluff. Maya didn’t want to sleep without Fluff, so we put the jar on the windowsill next to her bed, which we all promptly forgot about. The next night, we all spent like ten minutes searching, until she finally remembered. Rohan went into the bedroom to go retrieve the jar, and then Nishant started crying. Anyway, that’s the story of how Maya got a pet.</p> 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-12-16/ <p>I read Heated Rivalry last night in one go because everyone is talking about the new TV show and it was...fine? Sometimes, romance novels sneak into the culture as high literary works (Sally Rooney) and people lose their mind because they don't let themselves read romance. This felt similar — it follows the plot structure of fanfic (no dark moment, just vibes), the tropes were SO classic (from last names to first names), the lack of women, etc. Just let yourself read fanfic, friends!</p> 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-12-2/ <h3 id="the-rules">The Rules</h3> <ul> <li>God is change</li> <li>Spirituality is telling the truth</li> <li>Prayer is paying attention</li> </ul> <h3 id="the-guidelines">The Guidelines</h3> <ul> <li>Physical things over digital things <ul> <li>But do you really need to buy it? <ul> <li>If you really do, get the nicest version you can get and pay a real person good money for it.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Being bored over being overstimulated</li> <li>Longform over shortform</li> <li>Interesting over &quot;nice&quot;</li> </ul> 2025-11-11T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-11-11/ <p>I have a lot to say about yoga school but it's been difficult to put into words.</p> <p>I do this a lot, I think. I sign up for things on instinct, not quite knowing why, but knowing that it's leading me in the right direction. With yoga school, I told myself I needed to do this to add structure to my time off, that an additional understanding of anatomy would be useful, that I'm going to be busy in nursing school so having a daily practice would be helpful. All of that is true, and also, when I got drinks with Viv and Sarah and Grant and Hannah after my first day of school, I flat out told them that I'm religious now.</p> <p>A year before signing up, I had a call with Jasmine to tell her my biggest misgiving about yoga school was learning about Hinduism from white people. I can't remember what she said, but it was enough to allow me to let that fear go. It has been weird. The way they sing slokas does still sound like The Decemberists. But, ultimately, it has been the only thing that makes sense?</p> <p>Would I have gone to India for this? I mean, practically speaking, definitely not. And then, on top of that, would learning these teachings in that context made any sense to me? And frankly, I'm suspicious of the Hindu establishment at every turn.</p> <p>So to find a studio walking distance from me, with a training that fits my schedule, with teachers whose politics I trust and whose understanding of the teachings is vast — I can manage a little cringe.</p> <p>By religious, I mean a softening. An openness to mystery and letting things be sacred. In practice, we will sometimes do a full pranam. We lie flat, belly down on the ground, hands stretched overhead, in a gesture of surrender. These days, when I do it, I let the ground hold my full weight. I think &quot;Here is everything I have. Thank you thank you thank you.&quot;</p> 2025-09-04T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-09-04/ <p>I’ve been thinking about making this for years. Even before Elon bought Twitter, I knew the feeds were breaking my brain. Currently my social media situation is a little Tumblr (sinking pirate ship), Linkedin (cursed), and probably too much Youtube. Even that makes my brain feel fried.</p> <p>But I came up on the bloggy internet and that's what I want back. A space all my own to write and explore and build. Notably, I definitely don't want a newsletter that alerts everyone when I’ve had a thought. This feels much more respectful. It has been weirdly hard to build this. Like, obviously I have resisted learning how to code and I don't even think this counts, but how do I add a stupid background to this website? I do not know! But it is sort of fun to figure it out, and certainly a good lesson to be able to sit with this being janky and bad, but still my own. Idk, it tracks that now that AI is taking all the coding jobs, and there isn't all this virtue-signaling that comes with coding, I'm finally willing to learn the tiniest bit.</p> <p>Not to be insane, but isn’t this what life is? Finding a little corner of space and tending to it and making it better by making it yours but also allowing others to come visit and also learning new things for no reason other than to have fun?</p> 2025-09-04T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-09-04-2/ <p>I remember when Rohan was working at flux and he was REALLY excited about version control and he tried to explain it all to me and I fell asleep. I am now paying the price.</p> <p>OK here are some changes.</p> 2025-08-24T00:00:00Z https://amultiplied.com/blog/2025-08-24/ <p>OK, let's call this success. What are my hot takes? I can't even remember anymore. I just know I've been dreaming about making little blog posts and now I can.</p> <h2 id="my-hot-takes">My hot takes</h2> <p>plastic plants should be banned.</p>