Jan 11, 2025 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
After many years a conversation abruptly reminded me of an event that took place while I was in college. I graduated with a degree in Life Sciences in the year 2007. We studied under three departments, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology from a very old institution located...
Aug 23, 2024 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
Tiger Prabhakar is a popular Kannada film actor who acted in the movies between late 70s and late 90s. He started acting in small negative roles, usually one of the villain’s goons who gets beaten up by the protagonist. Tiger had worked his way up to become a...
Aug 9, 2024 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
I suddenly felt it in the most unexpected place. I was sitting in a room full of people at an auditorium. People had gathered here to attend an event. It was a mix of old and the young with the old outnumbering the young. I was tired with the circumstances of my life...
Jun 24, 2024 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
Majorda, a place in the southern part of Goa has a beach that shares its name. In June, when the region is drenched by consistent rain, the beaches are mostly deserted, marking the off-season. For the third time in the past decade, I found myself in Goa during this...
Jan 26, 2024 | Education, Environment, General, Poetry, Society & Culture
We were told that this is victory We were told that they were important in getting us to this place They wanted us to celebrate it They even told us how to do it They were upset about the people who had their own idea about what this meant to them A lot of us were...
Jan 17, 2024 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture
It was the festival of Shankranti a couple of days back. I was talking to one of my good friends about how I do not feel the same kind of excitement that I used to feel about these festivals. When I was in school, about a month before shankranthi, my mother used to...
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