Tomorrow, 19th February 2019, is an important day for all stakeholders of education in the country. School and college teachers, school and college students, and parents are going to come together to march for saving public education. This is in response to escalation of measures by the government in the recent past that indicate a…

Feeling helpless is the worst. Witnessing the pain of people we love, knowing there’s nothing we can do to reduce that pain, is the worst. Having to see them keep walking on the same narrow path with the same walls around it, is the worst. What I wouldn’t give to be able to break those…

From Eckhart Tolle, this is another offering on finding peace, primarily through presence. To be honest, a large part of the book was too abstract for me to digest and apply (the second half of the book) but there are some simple gems in the first half that opened my eyes, shook me to the…

I have fond memories of celebrating Saraswati puja as a child. Back home, this festival was a big deal, and there used to be a pandal with Maa Saraswati’s idol in every other lane. In the afternoon, the whole family used to go to the nearby pandals for darshan. This was true for every other…

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a fascinating book on space and time meant for the lay public written by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I love it when scientists are also good communicators, able to explain difficult concepts of their field to people who share none of their expertise, and Neil Tyson is a great…

It took me a while to go watch this movie. I generally avoid anything that has too much violence, so I wasn’t very keen to watch this one. But then I realised that it’s only because some people at the border are protecting us that we have the luxury of saying things like I don’t…

Even before the movie starts, when credits are on the screen, a soft, pastel pink aesthetic starts building up- people’s names bursting into flower petals, almost immediately followed by people happily dancing to the familiar tunes of Ishq Mitha. This aesthetic stays throughout in terms of the visuals as well as the tone of the…

I have often been amused by how I am transformed from being socially awkward to being no less than a performer when I am in front of a room full of students. There’s just something in the role that comes so naturally to me that I, who struggles with debilitating anxiety, have never had anxiety…

I had waited eagerly for my PhD residency period to end, to get back to teaching. I had no idea though that my first interview would be in the college I was teaching in before I had left full time teaching to register for my PhD course. I had no idea that I would get…