Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash A Summer WITH The Season 1. A Summer I stood at the regular roadside vegetable and fruit market. Three tiny pieces of clothing on my body – my panty, my bra and my thin cotton dress, clung to my skin with the weight of perspiration. I noticed, this […]
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 […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash HOW LOCALLY ATTUNED & RESPONSIVE ARE WE? 1. How Locally The puff-throated babbler is back to sing his most unusually long song between 6.50am – 6.55am like he did, a year ago; the Gray Langurs or the Hanuman Langurs as they are called have returned to our tamarind […]
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 […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash WAYS OF BELONGING 1. Of a Place I am an early bird, who spends several minutes lying in bed after waking up, just to listen. To listen to the passing of the communication baton from insects stridulating and frogs croaking the night to, the songs of different birds, […]
On 29th October of this year, if my parents were around, they would have entered their fiftieth year of being together. My mother passed just days before their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary…
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?’.