Train of Thought

Train of Thought

Feb 16, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

I would ideally like to be reasonable with friends who identify themselves with a different political ideology.  Imagine we are all on this train journey and there is just one seat available.  Say in our conversation, if we discover that you need the seat more than...
(Middle) Class Apart

(Middle) Class Apart

Feb 3, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

As a little boy from a middle class family in the nineties, I do not know if I can say that the city of Bangalore was the best place to grow up. It was the time when as a kid I was made to feel ashamed for not being affluent in many innocent ways. There used to be a...
Gompa Leh

Gompa Leh

Sep 28, 2022 | Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

Hills, not Hills, Mountains… With hardly any vegetation on them. Weather so harsh and extreme that there is comfort found only in the narrow valleys, close to water which turns to ice in the winter. That is where we find most of the living beings in Ladakh. In the...
Returning

Returning

Aug 17, 2021 | Environment, Poetry, Society & Culture

Eyes can never have enough of the sea she has borne. They say that the centre of the Earth is a woman’s belly- button, on the ocean floor. Drain the seas and her oyster eyes appear, encasing tears, reflecting books tall as skyscrapers, the riot of trees...
Parenting in a Pandemic

Parenting in a Pandemic

Jul 14, 2021 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

Parenting during this pandemic is starting to feel like mindful living, for me. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a planner. I like things in my life to be fairly neat and tidy, and laid out in a manner that has been thought through well in advance. I make endless...