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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jun 25, 2021 | Environment, General, Prose
Digital mobilisation is not enough… 6th October 2018, Caravan Magazine: “How social media was vital to rescue efforts during the Kerala floods” 13th November 2020, Livemint: “Saving Mollem with Art and Hashtags” 2nd May 2021, Indian Express: “Helping...
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