Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash MORE VERB, LESS NOUN? When it is children’s activities, we mostly describe them to others like this: Maya, she loves cycling the whole day, just doesn’t like to sit and study. Ahmed can spend hours making things. He loves to dismantle, investigate, reassemble. Kiran just loves asking questions […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash GIFTS – A WAY OF GATHERING MYSELF There are things about me that I do not fully see or acknowledge – it could be because I am in self-doubt, or I judge myself harshly in some specific area, or I feel that it is no big deal, or […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash SENSORY INTEGRITY – Offerings by Three Sensory Storytellers “One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, `What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’ – Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder Rachel […]
COME DECEMBER We have now come into December, the last month of the Gregorian calendar, a calendar that most of us have come to follow over the last several decades. November ended and December began for us with an immersive experience in the two beautiful jungles of India, Sunderbans and Kaziranga. The heart is so […]
In a writing session I was recently a part of, the author Jamie Figueroa, offered an unusual writing prompt, `What is it your feet must confess?’ Yes, that was her prompt, `what is it your feet must confess?’.
Richard Feynman shares the following, as a part of a story he narrates about how when his dad took him for a walk in the woods, and together they spotted a brown-throated thrush, his father told Richard: ‘See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a Halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call […]
We have all been home for months now. Only some of us have just started to step out. I remember that in my conversations in the first couple of months, calling this the initial phase. In labelling so, maybe there was a feeling that soon there would be the middle phase, and then there would […]
Close to two months of lockdown. Off late, you might find that… You are done being positive, you are done being resilient, you are done trying to hold it all together, you are done with trying to understand the virus, you are done trying to figure out when this is likely to end, you are […]
Hello, hello! I wished to propose something: It’s been a month in our homes now. The initial anxiety, the initial adjustment to the new routine, our initial curiosity to understand what Corona is, our initial worries about supplies…well, we all seem to have made peace with it, either through our routines, either through some rhythm, […]
(Fear of Missing out TO Joy of Missing out) How can animal migration teach us the benefits of the J.O.M.O strategy? Animal migrations are phenomenal. Be it the numbers, the precision of navigation, and the amount of energy required to engage in one. How do each of these species even manage to survive such long […]