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Death of the Metaphorical Ants

Jun 5, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

Few years ago I was fully employed. Like most employment demands, my job required that I attend an important meeting every first Saturday of the month. Like most of the times I was running late for this meeting as well. I was riding my bike through the campus of my...

Our Heroes Sell us Tobacco

Apr 24, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

There are a lot of funny memes and talk about the famous advertisement in which the most popular actors are selling us a product that is a cause of great tragedy in many families from the lower and the middle class of India. While there has been a critique offered in...

Adversity, Botany and Resilience

Mar 10, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

The sight of trees growing amidst heavy traffic, construction and demolition sites and roads with tremendous dust and pollution have always triggered some complex feelings within me. It was a feeling that I had not engaged with completely. I was at the Bangalore City...

Magnificently Ordinary

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

A very good friend of mine runs a small shop that sells various condiments, ice cream, sweet and savory snacks and cool drinks. This shop has been in the area of Bangalore where I have lived most of my life. My friend and I have known each other for the past two and a...

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

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...