Feb 20, 2024 | Environment, Poetry, Society & Culture, Uncategorized
Saqib Chinoy Author Saqib is an educator from Bengaluru who likes to express himself through cartoons. His cartoons have appeared before on Centreforconversations. Saqib’s take on the difference between schooling and education is reflective of his journey as an...
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...
Aug 13, 2023 | Environment, Poetry, Prose, Society & Culture, Uncategorized
Skanda S Author LinkedIn Skanda is a founding member of Centre for Conversations, an educator with a passion for writing and creating art. Skanda is based in Bengaluru. More Conversations A Bittersweet Shankranthi Jan 17, 2024It was the festival of Shankranti a couple...
Jun 16, 2022 | General, Poetry, Society & Culture
“Come over home anytime. It’s not like I’ll be going anywhere else.” Rasheeda Didi points to meand asks her mother with a wicked smile“Didn’t I tell you she’s cute?”She looks back at me and says“Are you looking for a boy? I have somegreat candidates for you here in...
Sep 5, 2021 | Education, General, Poetry, Prose, Society & Culture
Why should I forgo what I think or feel about a poem for what a literary theory says about it? It is commonly believed that poetry cannot be paraphrased, that once you start unfolding its meaning, line by line, its true essence, like that of a dream upon waking and...
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...
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