Ajay Sharma – Medium

Ajay Sharma
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Predict

Facing the End Alone

What to Do While Preparing for Your Last Journey?

4 min readDec 13, 2023

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Facing the End Alone

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Ajay Sharma
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Growing Grief

Books as Compass: 10 Essential Reads for Navigating Grief

These authors transform grief into a shared experience

4 min readDec 5, 2023

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Books as Compass: 10 Essential Reads for Navigating Grief

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Ajay Sharma
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Expressing End-of-Life Wishes as an Atheist

9 Steps to Ensure That Your Wishes Are Honored

2 min readDec 4, 2023

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Expressing End-of-Life Wishes as an Atheist

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Ajay Sharma
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The Death Reader

A Hindu King Was Cremated Five Years Before The First Legal Cremation in Italy

Kolhapur Maharaja Rajaram passed away in Florence in 1870

5 min readNov 29, 2023

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The cenotaph of Rajaram Chatrapati, the Maharaja of Kolhapur (India)

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Ajay Sharma
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Predict

How to Face Death as an Atheist?

You Need A Perspective To Navigate Your Mortality

2 min readNov 26, 2023

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How to Face Death as an Atheist?

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Ajay Sharma
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Hello, Love

A Symphony of Love in the Silence of Loss

Beyond tears. Grief enhances the brilliance of love.

2 min readNov 23, 2023

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Grief

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Ajay Sharma
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The Death Reader

Chhatris: Reminders of Mortality and Legacy

The Mortuary Monuments of Rajasthan

3 min readNov 22, 2023

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Mandore cenotaphs, Jodhpur

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Ajay Sharma
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Kintsugi— The Art of Repairing a Soul

Is it possible to synthesize the loss and improve through repair?

3 min readJan 20, 2023

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Rural cooking pot repaired with Kintsugi technique, Georgia, 19th century. Photo- Guggger

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Ajay Sharma
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The Collector

These Paintings Warn You: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap!

The Story of Indian Karni-Bharni Paintings

4 min readDec 23, 2022

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Karni-Bharni painting depicting 3 of the 7 Jain hells from manuscript of Samghayanarayana, India, 17th century. Source- Wikimedia Commons

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Ajay Sharma
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The Death Reader

Poetry of Sorrow, Verse of Grief

Marsiya is the poetry tradition of the Islamic world

3 min readDec 18, 2022

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Recitation of Marsiya. Photo — c-karbala.com

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Ajay Sharma

Ajay Sharma

Reader, Writer, Researcher | Media Professional | Interested in Existentialism, Death & Dying, History, Anthropology, Arts, Music & Digital Futures

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