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Do a prayer while Sun shines

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...

A Bittersweet Shankranthi

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...

Cycle of Violence

Oct 26, 2023 | Education, Environment, General, Prose, Society & Culture

I hurt you and you hurt me And we never felt even about it I thought you hurt me more than I did to you while you saw evil in my eyes like it was true Many years have passed and the scene has only become intense A few have used these circumstances to run their...

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...