What a blessing it is to wake up to beautiful weather! Delhi feels like Bangalore today! There’s a certain calmness that I associate with cold breeze during non-winter months; there’s unmistakable serenity due to it in the ambience. The sky looks like it’s been painted with water colours, and the familiar fragrance of wet soil…
If only
There’s so much inside the people we cross paths with. A whole world inside a person. Can we ever go beyond just scratching the surface? Can we ever come to fully see a person? What would it take? How much time? How much presence? Don’t you have this yearning too? This yearning for connection, beyond…
Book Review: Quiet
This is a book I had been meaning to read since a long time. It’s one of those books that’s probably on most people’s to-read-lists, and having read it now I have to say that it’s worth all the hype. Quiet is a thoroughly researched book on introverts and their place in the world written…
Fani
The first leg of the cyclone Fani destroyed the mango trees in my Aai’s (maternal grandmother’s) backyard. She went and gathered all these this morning before it hit again. She made everyone sick with worry, what with going to the garden at 6 in the morning and being at it for several hours, but you…
Dear Students
Resist. Obedience is overrated. Persist. Aspire to be the most hardworking person in the room, wherever you go. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Love fiercely. Never allow yourself to forget that “the personal is the political”. Do not “abandon the work”. The world carries on knowing that you won’t.
Book Review: The Brain- The Story of You
“We are sculpted by the world we happen to drop in to”. This book by David Eagleman is many things. It’s the most accessible introduction to brain I have read, written in a supremely readable fashion. It’s an ode to neuroplasticity. It’s also supremely ambitious in scope: after introducing brain and it’s physicality, it discusses…
Recipe: Banana Nice Cream
Nice cream is vegan ice-cream; it’s made without diary and usually using only a couple of ingredients: frozen fruits of choice, and flavouring agents like honey, vanilla essence etc. This particular recipe has only one ingredient! Banana nice cream is perhaps the quickest healthy snack that can be made. Also, it’s a great way to…
Remembering me
And just like that The pieces fell together And she realised She could be again What she once was
Reasonable goals are boring- The 101st Post
I completed 100 posts on this blog yesterday. 100 posts! Can you believe it? There have been times when I have doubted whether I would really be able to complete the #365daysofwriting challenge successfully, but now I am confident that I will be able to. If I could come this far in my first semester…
Counting my blessings
What an extraordinary privilege it is to be a teacher, to get to witness the transformation of students up close! Even more extraordinary is to know that you played a part in that transformation. Back when I was doing my undergraduate program, I dreamt of inspiring my students some day and bringing out the best…
A Rain of Moments 