Education

Is this a Barbaric Heaven?

Aug 22, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

I was on a two and a half hour long bus ride back home, and I often listen to audio lectures or interviews on such journeys. On this particular journey, I was listening to something, and my attention was drifting as I had slept quite late the previous night. Suddenly,...

The Mystery Remains

Jul 25, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

I often return to a memory from when I was not more than five years old. I was sitting outside my house with an empty milk packet in my hand. I washed it, poured a little water into it, and through the translucent plastic the water looked almost like ice. Like many...

The Value of Useless Skills

Jul 13, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

One of the days in the last week of March in 2018 in Bangalore, I found myself attending a workshop on stone balancing. Strange as it sounds, it had been organised for teachers who had just finished the term. It was part of a retreat before we all went home for the...

D for Divine

May 1, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Poetry, Society & Culture

I think most of us have met the divine at some point. We may not have recognised it, but we have met it. Not only in places of worship or through rituals and scriptures. Sometimes it arrives in quieter ways. A sudden sense of well being for no clear reason. The ease...

The Tension

Mar 9, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Poetry, Society & Culture

The word tension creates tension A subtle turbulence that compels us to make a choice We are often taught to avoid it to escape it to resolve it And I wonder if staying with tension is not as bad as we are made to believe Creativity emerges in the tension between...

When I realise I am alone

Feb 9, 2026 | Education, Environment, General, Poetry, Prose, Society & Culture

When I realise I am alone,my mind throws at me the most irresponsible ideas It says, come, it will be fun,and in the same breath it warns,What if you find yourself in danger? The old habit returnspinching the child and then rocking it to sleep,only to continue the...